Equality as unintended consequence: the contracts clause and the married women's property acts

Authors :: Holton, Woody
Source :: Journal of Southern History. May, 2015, Vol. 81 Issue 2, p313, 28 p.
Publication Year :: 2015
Abstract: IN THE FIRST VOLUME OF THEIR HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE, WHICH appeared in 1881, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage asserted that the married women's property [...]

Subjects :: Marital property -- Laws, regulations and rules
Gender equality -- Social aspects
Marriage law -- History
Married women -- Laws, regulations and rules
Government regulation
History
Regional focus/area studies
New York. Married Woman's Property Act of 1848

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