Skillful Women and Jurymen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Skillful Women and Jurymen write by Edith Murphy. This book was released on 1998. Skillful Women and Jurymen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Skillful Women and Jurymen
Skillful Women and Jurymen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Skillful Women and Jurymen write by . This book was released on 1998. Skillful Women and Jurymen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The U.S. Women's Jury Movements and Strategic Adaptation
The U.S. Women's Jury Movements and Strategic Adaptation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The U.S. Women's Jury Movements and Strategic Adaptation write by Holly J. McCammon. This book was released on 2012-04-30. The U.S. Women's Jury Movements and Strategic Adaptation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores efforts by women to gain the right to sit on juries in the United States. After they won the vote, many organized women in the early twentieth century launched a new campaign to further expand their citizenship rights. The work here tells the story of how women in fifteen states pressured lawmakers to change the law so that women could take a place in the jury box. The history shows that the jury movements that tailored their tactics to the specific demands of the political and cultural context succeeded more rapidly in winning a change in jury law.
The U.S. Women's Jury Movements and Strategic Adaptation
The U.S. Women's Jury Movements and Strategic Adaptation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The U.S. Women's Jury Movements and Strategic Adaptation write by Holly J. McCammon. This book was released on 2014-05-14. The U.S. Women's Jury Movements and Strategic Adaptation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When women won the vote in the United States in 1920 they were still routinely barred from serving as jurors, but some began vigorous campaigns for a place in the jury box. This book tells the story of how women mobilized in fifteen states to change jury laws so that women could gain this additional right of citizenship. Some campaigns quickly succeeded; others took substantially longer. The book reveals that when women strategically adapted their tactics to the broader political environment, they were able to speed up the pace of jury reform, while less strategic movements took longer. A comparison of the more strategic women's jury movements with those that were less strategic shows that the former built coalitions with other women's groups, took advantage of political opportunities, had past experience in seeking legal reforms and confronted tensions and even conflict within their ranks in ways that bolstered their action.
Under Household Government
Under Household Government - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Under Household Government write by M. Michelle Jarrett Morris. This book was released on 2013-01-07. Under Household Government available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seventeenth-century New Englanders were not as busy policing their neighbors’ behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many historians of early America would have us believe. Keeping their own households in line occupied too much of their time. Under Household Government reveals the extent to which family members took on the role of watchdog in matters of sexual indiscretion. In a society where one’s sister’s husband’s brother’s wife was referred to as “sister,” kinship networks could be immense. When out-of-wedlock pregnancies, paternity suits, and infidelity resulted in legal cases, courtrooms became battlegrounds for warring clans. Families flooded the courts with testimony, sometimes resorting to slander and jury-tampering to defend their kin. Even slaves merited defense as household members—and as valuable property. Servants, on the other hand, could expect to be cast out and left to fend for themselves. As she elaborates the ways family policing undermined the administration of justice, M. Michelle Jarrett Morris shows how ordinary colonists understood sexual, marital, and familial relationships. Long-buried tales are resurrected here, such as that of Thomas Wilkinson’s (unsuccessful) attempt to exchange cheese for sex with Mary Toothaker, and the discovery of a headless baby along the shore of Boston’s Mill Pond. The Puritans that we meet in Morris’s account are not the cardboard caricatures of myth, but are rendered with both skill and sensitivity. Their stories of love, sex, and betrayal allow us to understand anew the depth and complexity of family life in early New England.
