Maids, Wives and Widows. The Law of the Land and of the Various States as it Affects Women.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, [1918].
Price: $250.00
About the item
First expanded edition. 267pp. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt, dust jacket with splits and chips. This edition not in Krichmar.
Item #333531
Chapters include: "The Law for Women," "Woman's Legal Status," "Marriage and Divorce," "Child Labor and Minimum Wage," etc. Bres (1869-1927) was the associate editor of the ERA, a woman's publication. "When Bres moved to New York City in 1910, she became a member of the National Women Lawyers Association and later national president (1925-27) and editor of their publication, The Women Lawyers' Journal (1921-24). She served as counsel to the Lucy Stone League and was editor of a short-lived (due to World War I) magazine, Oyez!, published by women lawyers in 1916.Throughout her career, Bres worked for passage of uniform divorce and marriage laws and for women to have the right to use their own names. Labor laws, property rights, treatment of immigrants, and capital punishment laws were also major concerns of hers. The Law and the Woman (1917), dedicated to the Women's Press Club of New York, was favorably reviewed by the New York Times:"As the first attempt to present in a single volume the status of women in the United States under the Federal and the State Laws, Mrs. Bres' book has unique value and interest…. Her digest and discussion of the present legal status of women in this country is scholarly and readable and makes a worthwhile addition to feminist literature.'" The present work is a new and expanded edition of that work, published the following year.
