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Wives & Property : Reform of the Married Women's Property Law in Nineteenth-Century England /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
1983.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 'The first point in the women's charter' The women's movement and legal reform
- 'The virtual slavery of marriage' The common law and married women
- 'The guardian of the weak and unprotected' Equity and married women
- 'The germs of an effective movement' Feminism in the 1850s
- 'The wind out of our sails' Property-law reform and reform of the divorce law
- 'The peculiar character of the modern world' The setting of the 1860s
- 'The burthen of proof' The great debate on reform
- 'The legislative abortion' The Married Women's Property Act of 1970
- 'What an emancipation is this!' The Married Women's Property act of 1882
- 'The equality of two' After the acts
- Petition for reform of the Married Women's Property Law presented to parliament 14 march 1856
- Provisions relating to Women's Property in the Divorce Act of 1857
- Members of the executive committee of the Married Women's Property Committee, 1868-1882
- Married Women's Property Act 1870
- Married women's property bills in Parliament, 1857-1882
- Legislation relating to Married Women's Property.