Wives Property

Author : Lee Holcombe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487590180
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wives & Property written by Lee Holcombe and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1983-12-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1870s Millicent Garrett Fawcett had her purse snatched by a young thief in London. When he appeared in court to testify, she heard the young man charged with 'stealing from the person of Millicent Fawcett a purse containing £1 18s 6d the property of Henry Fawcett.' Long after the episode she recalled: 'I felt as if I had been charged with theft myself.' The English common law which deprived married women of the right to own and control property had far-reaching consequences for the status of women not only in other areas of law and in family life but also in education, and employment, and public life. To win reform of the married women's property law, feminism as an organized movement appeared in the 1850s, and the final success of the campaigns for reform in 1882 was one of the greatest achievements of the Victorian women's movement. Dr Holcombe explores the story of the reform campaign in the context of its time, giving particular attention to the many important men and women who worked for reform and to the debates on the subject which contributed greatly to the formulation of a philosophy of feminism.

Author : Marylynn Salmon
Publisher : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Law of Property in Early America written by Marylynn Salmon and published by Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and the Law of Property in Early America

Author : Rachel E. Brulé
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108870600
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Power, and Property written by Rachel E. Brulé and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. Women, Power, and Property explores this question within the context of India, the world's largest democracy. Brulé employs a research design that maximizes causal inference alongside extensive field research to explain the relationship between political representation, backlash, and economic empowerment. Her findings show that women in government – gatekeepers – catalyze access to fundamental economic rights to property. Women in politics have the power to support constituent rights at critical junctures, such as marriage negotiations, when they can strike integrative solutions to intrahousehold bargaining. Yet there is a paradox: quotas are essential for enforcement of rights, but they generate backlash against women who gain rights without bargaining leverage. In this groundbreaking study, Brulé shows how well-designed quotas can operate as a crucial tool to foster equality and benefit the women they are meant to empower.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Married Women's Property Bill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.Y1/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sp[ecial] Rep[ort] from the Select Committee of Married Women's Property Bill written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Married Women's Property Bill and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret W. Ferguson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802087577
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England written by Margaret W. Ferguson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England turns to these points of departure for the study of women's legal status and property relationships in the early modern period.

Author : Richard Walkem
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382508575
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Married Women's Property Acts written by Richard Walkem and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Thomas Cyprian Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on the Law of Vendor and Purchaser of Real Estate and Chattels Real written by Thomas Cyprian Williams and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jill Rappoport
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192692860
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction written by Jill Rappoport and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction reframes how we think about Victorian women's changing economic rights and their representation in nineteenth-century novels. The reform of married women's property law between 1856 and 1882 constituted one of the largest economic transformations England had ever seen, as well as one of its most significant challenges to family traditions. By the end of this period, women who had once lost their common-law property rights to their husbands reclaimed their own assets, regained economic agency, and forever altered the legal and theoretical nature of wedlock by doing so. Yet in literary accounts, reforms were neither as decisive as the law implied nor limited to marriage. Legal rights frequently clashed with other family claims, and the reallocation of wealth affected far more than spouses or the marital state. Competition between wives and children is just one of many ways in which Victorian fiction suggests the perceived benefits and threats of property reform. In nineteenth-century fiction, portrayals of women's claims to ownership provide insight into the social networks forged through property transactions and also offer a lens to examine a wide range of other social matters, including testamentary practices, wills, and copyright law; economic and evolutionary models of mutuality; the twin dangers of greed and generosity; inheritance and custody rights; the economic ramifications of loyalty and family obligation; and the legacy of nineteenth-century economic practices for women today. Understanding the reform of married women's property as both an ideologically and materially substantial redistribution of the nation's wealth as well as one complicated by competing cultural traditions, this book explores the widespread ways in which women's financial agency was imagined by fiction that engages with but also diverges from the law in accounts of economic choices and transactions. Repeatedly, narratives by Austen, Dickens, Gaskell, Trollope, Eliot, and Oliphant suggest both that the law is inadequate to account for the way that property enables and disrupts relationships, and that the form of the Victorian novel - in its ability to track intimate and intricate exchanges across generations - is better suited to such tasks.

Author : Amy Louise Erickson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134785585
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Property written by Amy Louise Erickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, Amy Louise Erickson reconstructs day-to-day lives, showing how women owned, managed and inherited property on a scale previously unrecognised. Her complex and fascinating research, which contrasts the written laws with the actual practice, completely revises the traditional picture of women's economic status in pre-industrial England. Women and Property is essential reading for anyone interested in women, law and the past.

Author : Manu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translation of a Digest of the Burmese Buddhist Law Concerning Inheritance and Marriage written by Manu and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: