Sisters in Spirit: Iroquois Influence on Early Feminists by Sally Roesch Wagner

Sisters in Spirit: Iroquois Influence on Early Feminists by Sally Roesch Wagner

Author:Sally Roesch Wagner [Wagner, Sally Roesch]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Book Publishing Company
Published: 2010-01-24T23:00:00+00:00


Carrie S. Burnham, the legal genius of the National Woman Suffrage Association, analyzed women’s position under common law. As the women had claimed in 1848, men had the right to beat their wives.

The husband being bound to provide for his wife the necessaries of life, and being responsible for “her morals” and the good order of the household, may choose and govern the domicile, choose her associates, separate her from her relatives, restrain her religious and personal freedom, compel her to cohabit with him, correct her faults by mild means and if necessary chastise her with the same moderation as [if] she was his apprentice or child.7



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