Women and family property
Title:
Women and family property
Author:
Moring, Beatrice, editor.
ISBN:
9781032597607
9781032597638
Physical Description:
viii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series:
Routledge research in gender and history
Routledge research in gender and history.
Contents:
Marie-Pierre Arizzabalaga / Property ownership : an indicator of French immigrant women's empowerment process in California, 1880-1940 -- Raquel Tovar Pulido / Women, testamentary succession, and property in Southern Spain in the 18th century -- Beatrice Moring / Women, family, and family property in preindustrial urban Northern Europe -- Hilde Sandvik / Authority over the whole estate-a study of applications to remain in undivided estate, Norway 1814-1851 -- Amy Rommelspacher / Ante nuptial contracts, marriage, and female agency in Cape Town 1924-1961 -- Beatrice Zucca Micheletto / Women and property in pre-unification Italy : a long-term overview of norms and practices -- Lloyd Bonfield / The legacy duty of 1796 : windows into the wealth of widows and spinsters at death in the late 18th and the early 19th century -- Paulo Teodoro de Matos and Mafalda Lopes / Property ownership by widows, a study of nineteenth century inheritance practices on the Island of Sao Jorge (Azores archipelago) Portugal.
Abstract:
"This book examines property legislation and the actual position of women in receiving, holding and passing on family property as daughters, wives and as widows throughout history. Traditionally the prevailing view has been that women have been disadvantaged in the distribution of property and therefore less interesting as objects of study. This volume challenges this view and explores the securing of property for families or for individuals through transfers in the shape of dowries, marriage contracts, wills and other arrangements, as well as how women used and distributed the property they were holding. The scope of the volume is both urban and rural, analysing the position of women in relation to family property through contributions from a wide geographic area. The chapters investigate the situation in southern and northern Europe, across the Atlantic and Africa throughout the 18th to the 20th century. This volume will be of value to academics, undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in gender and history and social history"-- Provided by publisher.
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