The Impact of the American Revolution on the Legal Stuatus of Women

FAIN: RO-12483-75

California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento, CA 95819-2605)
Joan Hoff (Project Director: July 1975 to present)

To document for the first time the legal rights and legal functions prescribed for women in theory and practice after 1776. Many of the judicial and social attitudes about the legal status of this post- Revolutionary generation of women were largely under the influence and direction of those lawyers who contributed to the success of the American Revolution.