Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of Contents1. Introduction
Beatrice Moring
2. Property ownership: an indicator of French immigrant women’s empowerment process in California, 1880-1940
Marie-Pierre Arizzabalaga
3. Women, testamentary succession and property in Southern Spain in the 18th century
Raquel Tovar Pulido
4. Women, Family and Family Property in Preindustrial Urban Northern Europe
Beatrice Moring
5. Authority over the whole estate - a study of applications to remain in undivided estate, Norway 1814-1851
Hilde Sandvik
6. Ante nuptial contracts, marriage and female agency in Cape Town 1924-1961
Amy Rommelspacher
7. Women and property in pre-unification Italy: a long-term overview of norms and practices
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto
8. The Legacy Duty of 1796: windows into the wealth of widows and spinsters at death in the late 18th and the early 19th century
Lloyd Bonfield
9. Property ownership by widows, a study of nineteenth century inheritance practices on the island of Sao Jorge (Azores archipelago) Portugal
Paulo Teodoro de Matos and Ana Mafalda Lopes
