Married Women and the Law
Coverture in England and the Common Law World
Explaining the curious legal doctrine of &quote;coverture,&quote; William Blackstone famously declared that &quote;by marriage, husband and wife are one person at law.&quote; This &quote;covering&quote; of a wife's legal identity by her husband meant that the greatest subordination of women to men developed within marriage. In England and its colonies, generations of judges, legislators, and husbands invoked coverture to limit married women's rights and property, but there was no monolithic concept of coverture and their justifications shifted to fit changing times: Were husband and wife lord and subject? Master and se…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7735-9014-4
- EAN: 9780773590144
- Produktnummer: 35549330
- Verlag: Mqup
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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