My book will be for women who are open-minded, free thinkers that perhaps one of their friends who are locked in a marriage that has violence and she wonders if she will ever be free to find out who she is and what adventures still are waiting for her, this is why I write. We as women were created to be bold and strong. Preach, Dee!!! Thanks so much for your kind words.
An example of how coverture worked in textile mills in the southern US. The mills would employ entire families including children who were big enough to do any kind of mill work. All of the wages were paid to the head of the household.
When my maternal grandparents married in , Mama Bailey had to show her marriage certificate to the paymaster at the cotton mill in Porterdale GA so he would stop giving her pay to her stepfather and start giving it to her husband.
Nobody ever thought of giving it to her. Loved the history on this outdated tradition! Your email address will not be published. Notify me via e-mail if anyone answers my comment. Friend's Email Address. Your Name. Your Email Address. They had no rights to their children, so that if a wife divorced or left a husband, she would not see her children again. Married women had no rights to their bodies. His total mastery of this fellow human being stopped short, but just short, of death. Though a woman could own nothing, men who wanted to pass on their wealth through their daughters to grandchildren, devised ways to keep money and property out of the hands of sons-in-law.
The demands of commerce also played their own parts. Wives often ran businesses alongside their mates, with the local community acting as monitors and enforcers. Finally, we must assume that though husbands had the right to marital relations at will, that there was a great deal of negotiation around sex. But the issue was too thorny for the men of the time and so, even as they created a shiny new machine of government, with a Constitution and modern systems of law on both the federal and state levels, they allowed the creaky, pre-modern device of coverture to remain on the books.
So what happened to coverture? The short answer is that it has been eroded bit by bit. But it has never been fully abolished. Encounters with coverture can be serious, but often they are just puzzling annoyances, one more hoop to jump.
Still, the remnants of coverture are holding us back in unsuspected ways. Only a few historians and attorneys have understood the impact. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University.
This thesis concerns the institution of marriage, as defined by law. It considers the rule known as the doctrine of coverture. By this rule, a wife had no separate legal identity during marriage the aspect of coverture known as the doctrine of unity and her person and her estate came under the control of her husband coverture ; The conventional view is that reforming legislation of the late 19th century repealed the significant effects of the doctrines of coverture and unity and that what remained were anachronistic remnants of past legal practice.
The thesis argues that the reforms of the late 19th century did not repeal the reality of coverture, and that in fact it continued to operate until well into the 20th century. In particular the continued operation of coverture is seen in the status of dependency as defined in legal concepts.
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