"The Last Rose of Summer:" A Century of Women's Habeas Petitions & Gendered Violence.

Women's legal mobilization in the American West between 1819 and 1924 is far more robust than scholars have previously understood. This article examines more than twenty women's habeas corpus petitions to demonstrate the diversity of arguments that hundreds of women presented against gendered violen...

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Published in:	Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 133 - 152
Main Author:	Jagodinsky, Katrina
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Summer2025
Subjects:	Gender-based violence Women's history Race Colonization Habeas corpus Violence against women Petitions
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