less than 1 minute read

Shaw v. Shaw

Further Readings



  • Hoff, Joan. Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women. New York: New York University Press, 1991.
  • Hoffer, Peter Charles. Law and People in Colonial America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
  • Kerber, Linda K. Women's America: Refocusing the Past. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
  • Salmon, Marylynn. Women and the Law of Property in Early America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
  • Wortman, Marlene Stein. Women in American Law, Vol. I. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1985.

Additional topics

Law Library - American Law and Legal InformationNotable Trials and Court Cases - 1833 to 1882Shaw v. Shaw - Significance, Sticks And Stones, Patriarchal Power, Spousal Abuse, Further Readings