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Steps and Missteps Toward a Legal History of Women

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Hull N.E.H.. Female Felons: Women and Serious Crime in Colonial Massachusetts. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987). x + 171 pp. Notes, tables, appendices, index. $21.95.

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Bruce H. Mann
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Law & Society Review , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , 1988 , pp. 895 - 898
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Copyright © 1988 by The Law and Society Association

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