University Press, 1930), pp. 126-200, details the legal advantages (especially recognition of the marriage contract as a reciprocal agreement and greater proprietary capacity) that distinguished American women from their British contemporaries. 12Thelma M. Smith, "Feminism in Philadelphia, 1790-1850," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 68 (1944), 243-268. See also Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977). l^Patricia Branca and Peter Stearns, "On…
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