A Woman's Kingdom : : Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700-1861 / / Michelle Lamarche Marrese.
In A Woman's Kingdom, Michelle Lamarche Marrese explores the development of Russian noblewomen's unusual property rights. In contrast to women in Western Europe, who could not control their assets during marriage until the second half of the nineteenth century, married women in Russia enjo...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 23 tables, 1 halftone |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- ONE. From Maintenance to Entitlement: Women and the Law of Inheritance
- TWO. The Enigma of Married Women's Control of Property
- THREE. Marriage and the Practice of Separate Property
- FOUR. A Desiatina of Her Own: Gender and the Culture of Noble Property
- FIVE. The Culture of Giving: Women, Men, and Testamentary Behavior
- SIX. The Pomeshchitsa, Absent and Present: Women and Estate Management
- SEVEN. Women and the Legal Process
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1. A Note on Sources: The Krepostnye Knigi
- Appendix 2. Kinship of Litigants in Inheritance Disputes Involving Noblewomen, 1700-1861
- Bibliography
- Index