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Women, work, and divorce
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ISBN: 0585061068 9780585061061 1438416024 Year: 1989 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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Widows and divorcees in later life: on their own again
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ISBN: 0789021927 1315864770 1317955714 0789021919 9781317955719 9781315864778 9780789021915 9781317955696 1317955692 9781317955702 1317955706 9780789021915 9780789021922 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York Haworth

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Get a fresh perspective on how older women adapt to life without a spouse!

Widows and Divorcees in Later Life: On Their Own Again examines new perspectives on the problems older women face adjusting to life without a spouse. The book examines the transition from the togetherness of marriage to the solitude of being suddenly single, exploring how older widows and divorcees adapt. A multidisciplinary panel of practitioners, researchers, and academics addresses the challenges facing elderly women after a divorce or the death of a spouse, including issues of physical and psychological well


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Separated and divorced women in India
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ISBN: 8132116291 9788132116295 9788132109525 813210952X 8132117492 Year: 2013 Publisher: Los Angeles New Delhi

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Separated and Divorced Women in India examines the economic rights and entitlements of separated/deserted women in law and practice in India, and explores all the laws and policies relating to financial support for a wife or child that come into play once a separation or divorce has taken place. Based on a survey of more than 400 women in four different regions across the country, this seminal work lays bare the miserable financial conditions of separated/deserted women and the lengthy procedural obstacles that these women have to contend with to get any justice. It interrogates the absenc

The divorce revolution : the unexpected social and economic consequences for women and children in America
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ISBN: 0029347106 9780029347102 Year: 1985 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Free press,

Swooning Beauty : A Memoir Of Pleasure
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ISBN: 0874176689 9780874176681 087417659X 9780874176599 0874176727 9780874176728 Year: 2006 Publisher: Reno : University of Nevada Press,


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Scandal and survival in nineteenth-century Scotland : the life of Jane Cumming
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ISBN: 1787444856 1787449556 1580469558 Year: 2020 Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press,

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PROVISIONAL-- FOR FORECASTING PURPOSES ONLY Her Scottish father put her in an institution in Calcutta when she was small. Guilt made her Highland gentry grandfather send for her, but he considered her an encumbrance and boarded her in Elgin. When she was an adolescent, her grandmother enrolled her in an Edinburgh boarding school where she developed a crush on one teacher and received harsh rebukes from the other. Brushed off by the former and chastised by the latter, she retaliated by alleging that they were sexually intimate. The teachers sued for libel; in the case that ensued, she was seen through sexist and racist lenses, constructed as an Other. While the case was still going on, she was married to a Presbyterian minister. If the idea was that he would tame her and make her conformable as other household Janes, the plan failed. He turned out to be a womanizer and Jane took revenge on him by reporting his unchaste behavior to his fellow ministers. Later she made a laughingstock of him by joining another church. Posthumously, she became a mean show-stopping character in a play by Lillian Hellman. Such was the life of Jane Cumming, the biracial woman whose recovered story is the subject of this biography. Spanning three continents and more than two centuries and based on archival research, The Encumbrance offers a sympathetic portrait of the protagonist, seeing her as a resilient figure who, when threatened by figures of authority, took arms against her sea of troubles so as to oppose and end them.


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Stepping lively in place
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ISBN: 9780820348988 0820348988 9780820345499 0820345490 9780820345499 9780820349725 0820349720 Year: 2016 Publisher: Athens

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"Enlivened with profiles and vignettes of some of the remarkable people whose histories inform this study, Stepping Lively in Place shows how single, free women navigated life in a busy slave-encrusted river-port town before, during, and after the Civil War. It examines how single women in one city (including prostitutes, entre-preneurs, and elite plantation ladies) coped with life unencumbered, or unprotected, by husbands. The book pays close attention to the laws affecting Southern gender and sociocultural traditions, focusing especially on how the town's single women maneuvered adroitly but guardedly within the legal arena in which they lived. Joyce Linda Broussard looks at all types of single women--black and white, law-abiding and criminal--including spinsters, widows, divorcees, and abandoned women. She demonstrates the nuanced degrees to which these women understood that the legal, cultural, and social traditions of their place and time could alternately constrain or empower them, often achieving thereby a considerable amount of independence as women"--Provided by publisher.

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