Timeline for Were women the property of men prior to 1919 in the UK?
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| Feb 5, 2019 at 13:39 | history | edited | LаngLаngС | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 4, 2018 at 20:43 | comment | added | user159517 | 3) The argument about Blacksone's book is in itself a non sequitur, the wife being inferior to the husband in law is decidedly not equivalent to the wife being the property of the husband. Even admitting it, one could also talk about the following paragraph in the book: "IN the civil law the husband and wife are considered as two distinct persons; and may have separate estates, contracts, debts, and injuries:52 and therefore, in our ecclesiastical courts, a woman may sue and be sued without her husband.53" which proves that a wife didn't belong to her husband: You can't sue property. | |
| Nov 4, 2018 at 20:36 | comment | added | user159517 | This answer doesn't even try to maintain an objective stance. 1) You're justifying an argument by saying "essentially a common way to criticise the patriarchy entrenched in many European systems of law for quite a time", so you suggest that this type of argument is OK because many people who criticise patriarchy use it? 2) Your opinions on Peterson and Lewis are in no way relevant to the question, yet you dedicate a whole paragraph to them... | |
| Nov 4, 2018 at 13:19 | history | edited | LаngLаngС | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 4, 2018 at 10:11 | history | edited | LаngLаngС | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 4, 2018 at 10:04 | history | edited | LаngLаngС | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2018 at 14:32 | history | edited | LаngLаngС | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2018 at 10:55 | comment | added | Jonathan | Yes and that would be using a modern lens to look at history. | |
| Nov 3, 2018 at 10:43 | comment | added | LаngLаngС | @Jonathan Do you disagree that there was a system that might be called descriptively "patriarchy" before 1919? | |
| Nov 3, 2018 at 10:38 | comment | added | Jonathan | I disagree that there is a patriarchy and I can assume other reasons for this marriage law to exist. Such as, men needed to own property to be able to marry into another family (as the parents wouldn't allow someone without property to marry their daughter). This would be in the context of a family that had sons and daughters. | |
| Nov 3, 2018 at 10:07 | history | answered | LаngLаngС | CC BY-SA 4.0 |