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Revealing Zion's Daughters: Women In Puritan Jurisprudence, Brett Jackson
Revealing Zion's Daughters: Women In Puritan Jurisprudence, Brett Jackson
The Gettysburg Historical Journal
The legal status of American women has consistently been portrayed as a linear progression flowing from a colonial jurisprudential repression and exclusion to a modern-day legal equity and a female influence within every aspect of justice. In this narrative of sequentially gained status, seventeenth-century Puritan law has stood as the exemplar of America’s most repressive jurisprudential treatment of women. However, when its characteristics are triangulated and its subordination of women is juxtaposed with its inclusion of a female voice, a new conception of America’s first legal system is seen. The notion of a linear progression is thus replaced with an …