Author: FOSTER, LEMUEL HILL
Title: The Legal Rights of Women: Adapted for Use in Every State By Means of a Brief Synopsis of the Laws Relating to Property Rights, Dower, Divorce, the . . . And Direction for Women in Every Walk of Life
Description: Detroit, MI: Woman's Publishing Co, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. xix, 295 pages; Hard cover is green with gold lettering on cover and spine. Cover has sunning, light shelf wear, bumping. Pencil marking on front end paper. Pages are clean and tight. "We unhesitatingly affirm, that never before has a book of such importance and value as this, been offered to women, nor one which is so thoroughly deserving of their careful study...While the subjects treated are necessarily of a somewhat technical nature, the language used is so plain and simple that any woman of ordinary intelligence can understand it". Blast from a century ago, some things have changed a lot, others not so much. Index.. Very Good+ .

Keywords: Women; Women's History; Legal History; Sexism; Gender Roles; Gender Bias; Contracts; Cultural Anthropology; Cultural History; Women/Womens' History Cultural History Education American History Business/Economics Reference Anthropology/Language/Linguistics