
Published online:
21 September 2017
Published in print:
29 November 2016
Online ISBN:
9781479853892
Print ISBN:
9780814783047
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Declaring Feminist Sentiments Declaring Feminist Sentiments
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Married Women’s Property Acts Married Women’s Property Acts
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Limitations of the Early Statutes Limitations of the Early Statutes
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An Insult to Widows An Insult to Widows
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Property as Citizenship Property as Citizenship
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The Death-Blow to Coverture The Death-Blow to Coverture
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Cite
Thomas, Tracy A., '“What Do You Women Want?”', Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law (New York, NY , 2016; online edn, NYU Press Scholarship Online, 21 Sept. 2017), https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814783047.003.0002, accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter traces Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s earliest legal advocacy for marital property rights. It discusses Stanton’s deconstruction and critique of coverture, the law of legal disability and loss of rights for married women. It begins by outlining the women’s rights Declaration of Sentiments and Stanton’s work for reform of married women’s property acts and dower. Then, by exploring property as citizenship right, it identifies Stanton’s constitutional thought on the privileges and immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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