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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the feminist foundations of family law /

"Thomas explores Stanton's philosophies and proposals for women's equality in marriage, divorce, and maternity, and reveals that the campaigns for equal gender roles in the family from the 1960's and '70's had nineteenth-century roots. Applying feminist legal theory, Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thomas, Tracy A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Introduction: the "radical conscience" of nineteenth-century feminism
  • "What do you women want?"
  • "The pivot of the marriage relation"
  • "Divorce is not the foe of marriage"
  • The "incidental relation" of mother
  • Raising "our" girls?
  • Conclusion : "still many obstacles"
  • Acknowledgments.