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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Coverture"”.
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Women Under Colonial Coverture: Divorce, Property Rights, and Inheritance in Early Massachusetts
… how and to what extent the legal doctrine of coverture- which severely limited married women’s legal rights- functioned in the Massachusetts Bay Colony under its Puritan government. This study examines how coverture directly impacted women’s property and divorce rights in the courts of law in …
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Monstrous Marriage: Re-Evaluating Consent, Coverture, and Divorce in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Gothic Fiction
… these works in light of consent and the law of coverture, as well as social expectations that create false narratives about ideal marriages. The intersection of matrimonial laws and Gothic conventions allowed women writers to imagine frightening scenarios in which consent is questioned, in which …
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Cultural coverture: an examination of the impact of early American marriage laws on contemporary American women
Under the system of coverture a married woman's civil identity was covered by her husband's civil identity and she was viewed to be civilly dead. The system of coverture originated in Europe and was part of the English Common Law system. When settlers first colonized what would eventually become …
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The Price of Entry: How Online Harassment Influences Girls' Identity, Privacy and Speech
… online. First, the concept of “platform coverture,” which works to foreclose girls’ agency and shape their identity-development against the threat of online harassment. Second, the idea of “presumptive exposure,” a feeling that girls carry with them across physical and digital spaces …
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Essays on innovation and public policy
… before such laws were passed, the notion of coverture meant that married women's property and earnings were controlled by their husbands. We compare patenting by women before and after the acts and show that patenting by women increased after these laws.
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Married Women’s Litigation in the English Court of Chancery, 1698-1758
… have shown that the theoretical strictures of coverture were not as suffocating as they appear during this period. Reflecting this, Chancery treated women not entirely as feme covert or feme sole, but bestowed upon them something in between – pseudo-feme sole status. The law impacted the extent …
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Place and displacement: the unsettling connection of women, property, and the law in British novels of the long nineteenth century
… the mid-Victorian period and theconstraints of coverture on married women’s rights of ownership as many studies do, I suggest that a much longer chronology of laws and practices must be considered in understanding the long sweep of evolving laws and practices affecting women’s rights of property …
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Ignorance and Marital Bliss: Women's Education in the English Novel, 1796-1895
… of educating women, given Britain's law of coverture; they expose the impracticality of ideal women presented in Jean Jacques Rousseau's Émile (1762) and James Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women (1766); and they demand educational parity between the sexes. Although novelists throughout the …
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The Law and the Lady: Consent and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… Bacon, and Matthew Hales' legal theories of coverture and abuse in George Eliot's "Janet's Repentance" and <em>Daniel Deronda,</em> George Egerton's "Virgin Soil," and John Galsworthy's <em>The Man of Property</em> and <em>In Chancery,</em>5) separations and restitution of conjugal rights in …
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Imprisonment for Debt and Female Financial Failure in the long Eighteenth Century
… prisoners. It questions the absolute nature of coverture, demonstrating that some married women were confined for their debts, contrary to the letter of the law. It also argues that simply because the majority of female prisoners were either spinsters or widows, this did not mean their …
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Patriarchy and Property: The Nineteenth-Century Mississippi Married Women's Property Acts
<p>The Mississippi Married Women's Property Acts of 1839, 1846, and 1857 reflected the desire of the Mississippi patriarchy to protect themselves from economic instabilities. Analysis of women's deeds in Jefferson county, Mississippi, from 1792 to 1871 and the rulings of the Mississippi High Court …
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Identity and the Prosecution of Interpersonal Violence in Late Medieval Yorkshire, 1340-85
There has been a strong historiographical focus on quantifying medieval crime and profiling criminals. This methodology has often resulted in a failure to consider the intersection between the law and social attitudes. This current investigation is interested in the extent to which legal privileges …