In Her Own Name : : The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage / / Sara Chatfield.
Long before American women had the right to vote, states dramatically transformed their status as economic citizens. In the early nineteenth century, a married woman had hardly any legal existence apart from her husband. By the twentieth, state-level statutes, constitutional provisions, and court ru...
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