Women, Money, and the Law: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts

Contents

Acknowledgments vii Introduction Fracturing Gender 1 1. Marriage and Money Trust v. Trust 19 2. The Dominant Discourse Compulsory Dependency 44 3. Economics and the American Renaissance Woman Warner, Southworth, Stowe, Cummins, & Fern 75 4. The Woman PlaintiΩ 115 5. The Economics of Race Harper, Wilson, Crafts, & Jacobs 154 6. The Woman Defendant 185 7. Economics and the Law in Fiction Fern, Tyler, Oakes Smith, Chesebro’, Phelps, Stoddard, Child, Davis, Ruiz de Burton, & Winnemucca Hopkins 216 8. The Economics of Divorce 243 9. Woman’s Economic Independence Fern, Alcott, & Gilman 280 Epilogue Into the Twenty-first Century 302 Notes 313 Index 365 contents ...