Ladies in Red
Learning from America's First Female Bankrupts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8303299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Gross (New York Law School, corresponding author), Marie Stefanini Newman (Pace University), Denise Campbell (0000-0002-3183-0790) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Legal History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9319 • E-ISSN: 2161-797X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/845460 |
| OpenAlex | W1550519387 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Several years ago, the Honorable Joyce Bihary, a bankruptcy judge in Atlanta, Georgia, asked me why our country's first bankruptcy law specifically referred to debtors using he or rather than a gender neutral noun (such as bankrupts) or the male possessive pronoun he. Implicitly, she was also asking whether there were any women debtors under our early bankruptcy laws. Although I had read the Bankruptcy Act of 1800 more than once, I did not recollect its use of these gender-inclusive pronouns. Nor did I know why the Act employed them. Despite having given considerable thought to contemporary women in debt, I too had no inkling as to whether there were women debtors under the Bankruptcy Act of 1800. And so I set out, with the help of my co-authors, to find the answers to Judge Bihary's two questions. Those answers led us to new questions and concerns, most particularly questions about how bankruptcy history has been told to date
Atlanta · Bankruptcy · Business · Debt · Linguistics · Metropolitan area · Political science · Possessive · Pronoun · Finance · History · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2025 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |