History A-Level
Gender and law
What Gender and law means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Gender and law
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Religious and legal changes affected women's status, including the abolition of ecclesiastical courts during the Interregnum and the common law doctrine of coverture.
Topics that use Gender and law
- Social and intellectual challenge, 1625–88 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Class mobility
- Empiricism and scientific progress
- Poverty and social policy
- Radicalism and dissent
- Rural economy
- Secularisation and religious pluralism
- Social hierarchy
- Urbanisation
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