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Author | : Lee Holcombe |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1983-12-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1487590180 |
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In the 1870s Millicent Garrett Fawcett had her purse snatched by a young thief in London. When he appeared in court to testify, she heard the young man charged with 'stealing from the person of Millicent Fawcett a purse containing £1 18s 6d the property of Henry Fawcett.' Long after the episode she recalled: 'I felt as if I had been charged with theft myself.' The English common law which deprived married women of the right to own and control property had far-reaching consequences for the status of women not only in other areas of law and in family life but also in education, and employment, and public life. To win reform of the married women's property law, feminism as an organized movement appeared in the 1850s, and the final success of the campaigns for reform in 1882 was one of the greatest achievements of the Victorian women's movement. Dr Holcombe explores the story of the reform campaign in the context of its time, giving particular attention to the many important men and women who worked for reform and to the debates on the subject which contributed greatly to the formulation of a philosophy of feminism.
Author | : Marylynn Salmon |
Publisher | : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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Women and the Law of Property in Early America
Author | : Rachel E. Brulé |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2020-10-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108870600 |
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Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. Women, Power, and Property explores this question within the context of India, the world's largest democracy. Brulé employs a research design that maximizes causal inference alongside extensive field research to explain the relationship between political representation, backlash, and economic empowerment. Her findings show that women in government – gatekeepers – catalyze access to fundamental economic rights to property. Women in politics have the power to support constituent rights at critical junctures, such as marriage negotiations, when they can strike integrative solutions to intrahousehold bargaining. Yet there is a paradox: quotas are essential for enforcement of rights, but they generate backlash against women who gain rights without bargaining leverage. In this groundbreaking study, Brulé shows how well-designed quotas can operate as a crucial tool to foster equality and benefit the women they are meant to empower.
Author | : Amy Louise Erickson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134785585 |
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This ground-breaking book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, Amy Louise Erickson reconstructs day-to-day lives, showing how women owned, managed and inherited property on a scale previously unrecognised. Her complex and fascinating research, which contrasts the written laws with the actual practice, completely revises the traditional picture of women's economic status in pre-industrial England. Women and Property is essential reading for anyone interested in women, law and the past.
Author | : Kathryn Bernhardt |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804735278 |
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Drawing on newly available archival case records, this book demonstrates that Chinese women's rights to property changed substantially from the Song through the Qing dynasties, and even more dramatically under the Republican Civil Code of 1929-30.
Author | : Andrew M. Riggsby |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2010-06-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052168711X |
Download Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Andrew Riggsby provides a survey of the main areas of Roman law, and their place in Roman life.
Author | : Tim Stretton |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0773590145 |
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Explaining the curious legal doctrine of "coverture," William Blackstone famously declared that "by marriage, husband and wife are one person at law." This "covering" 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 servant? Guardian and ward? Or one person at law? The essays in Married Women and the Law offer new insights into the legal effects of marriage for women from medieval to modern times. Focusing on the years prior to the passage of the Divorce Acts and Married Women's Property Acts in the late nineteenth century, contributors examine a variety of jurisdictions in the common law world, from civil courts to ecclesiastical and criminal courts. By bringing together studies of several common law jurisdictions over a span of centuries, they show how similar legal rules persisted and developed in different environments. This volume reveals not only legal changes and the women who creatively used or subverted coverture, but also astonishing continuities. Accessibly written and coherently presented, Married Women and the Law is an important look at the persistence of one of the longest lived ideas in British legal history. Contributors include Sara M. Butler (Loyola), Marisha Caswell (Queen’s), Mary Beth Combs (Fordham), Angela Fernandez (Toronto), Margaret Hunt (Amherst), Kim Kippen (Toronto), Natasha Korda (Wesleyan), Lindsay Moore (Boston), Barbara J. Todd (Toronto), and Danaya C. Wright (Florida).
Author | : Carol Christie |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2013-04-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1459709780 |
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The true story of a brave woman’s nearly 40 years in a polygamous cult, her eventual escape, and her struggle to integrate into a world she barely knew. In the early 1970s an innocent teenager who had led a sheltered life was forced to leave her family and enter into a polygamous, abusive, and deviant relationship with a man called the Prophet. In 2008, nearly 40 years later, she fled his religious sect. Property is not a misnomer. It accurately depicts how the women in the sect were treated. Carol Christie reveals the degradation, abuse, and brainwashing that the Church Wives endured. She exposes the physical abuse, the mental cruelty, the slave labour, and the sexual deviance that took place near Owen Sound, a small community just a few hours north of Toronto, as well as at other locations. She describes the many opportunities that officials had to investigate but walked away from, swayed by the charismatic Prophet. Carol is building a new life, one of freedom and options. With no money and no job she started again and is now dedicated to helping others who have escaped while raising awareness about the dangers of the cult.
Author | : Anne Lorene Chambers |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 1388 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780802078391 |
Download Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A meticulously researched and revisionist study of the nineteenth-century Ontario's Married Women's Property Acts. They were important landmarks in the legal emancipation of women.
Author | : Lee Holcombe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780835783774 |
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