What Hath She Wrought? Woman's Rights and the Nineteenth-Century Lyceum

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela G. Ray
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Woman's Rights

Elizabeth Wilson, the Bible, and the Legal Rights of Women in the Nineteenth Century

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-232
Author(s):  
Joy A. Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
Marital Property ◽  
1 Samuel ◽  
Woman's Rights ◽  
Equal Right ◽  
Inheritance Laws

In 1849, Elizabeth Wilson (fl. 1849-1850) published an impassioned defense of women’s rights entitled A Scriptural View of Woman’s Rights and Duties. Her work critiques patriarchy in church and society, arguing in favor of women’s social and legal rights within marriage. Challenging prominent male biblical commentators, Wilson asserted that male and female were created as equal co-sovereigns over creation. She claimed that biblical patriarchs and matriarchs exercised equal authority within the marriage relationship. Wilson’s most striking example is Abigail, who distributed household property, an extravagant gift of dressed sheep and other food, to David, against her husband Nabal’s wishes (1 Samuel 25). Wilson uses this story to prove that wives have equal right to administer marital property. Thus she offers an incisive critique of American property and inheritance laws biased against wives and widows.

Radical Friend

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy A. Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Underground Railroad ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Local Leader ◽  
William Lloyd Garrison ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Woman's Rights ◽  
Radical Activism

A pillar of radical activism in nineteenth-century America, Amy Kirby Post (1802–89) participated in a wide range of movements and labored tirelessly to orchestrate ties between issues, causes, and activists. A conductor on the Underground Railroad, co-organizer of the 1848 Rochester Woman’s Rights Convention, and a key figure in progressive Quaker, antislavery, feminist, and spiritualist communities, Post sustained movements locally, regionally, and nationally over many decades. But more than simply telling the story of her role as a local leader or a bridge between local and national arenas of activism, Nancy A. Hewitt argues that Post’s radical vision offers a critical perspective on current conceptualizations of social activism in the nineteenth century. While some individual radicals in this period have received contemporary attention—most notably William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Lucretia Mott (all of whom were friends of Post)—the existence of an extensive network of radical activists bound together across eight decades by ties of family, friendship, and faith has been largely ignored. In this in-depth biography of Post, Hewitt demonstrates a vibrant radical tradition of social justice that sought to transform the nation.

scholarly journals Matrimonial Bonds: Slavery and Divorce in Nineteenth-Century America

1990 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth B. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Political Reform ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Marriage And Divorce ◽  
Divorce Laws ◽  
Public Meeting ◽  
The Social ◽  
Woman's Rights

As early as 1848, in the first public meeting on woman's rights, feminists raised the touchy issues of women's marital subjugation and divorce. They complained that the laws of marriage and divorce were framed for the benefit of men and to entrap women within the oppressive institution of marriage. Another controversial claim made at Seneca Falls—that to the ballot—went on to become the great organizing principle for women's campaigns for legal and political reform. But despite the bold beginning, divorce remained a complex and divisive issue for feminists throughout the century. Although legislatures in most states in the mid-nineteenth century were systematically liberalizing divorce laws, they could not lift the social stigma attached to it. Fearful of being branded as anti-marriage or anti-family, or believing in the permanency of marriage, many feminists spoke of divorce reluctantly, and never used their formidable organizing skills to launch a full-scale assault on laws restricting the dissolution of marriage.

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Women's Rights and Post-Marriage Nationality

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-15
Author(s):  
Sentot Ahangaran ◽  
Fitriani Pitoyo
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Woman's Rights

In the nineteenth century, a school known as "The Unity System of Couples Nationality" expressed that women ought to obtain the nationality of their spouses after marriage. In different words, the nationality of men ought to be forced on women. In any case, in the twentieth century, a development known as woman's rights developed which prompted the arrangement of a school named "Arrangement of Nationality Independence". This school supported the partition of marriage and nationality and accepted that women’s nationality ought not to change following marriage. The previously mentioned legitimate schools have had various indications in the positive laws of various nations and some of the time it is difficult to order them into a single lawful school. The lawful frameworks of nations can be ordered into two gatherings: lawful frameworks upholding the burden of spouses' nationality on spouses; lawful frameworks restricting the inconvenience of spouses' nationality on wives.

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