L'esclavage de la femme mariée
By: by Giorgio Quartara
Series: Women and social movements, international
Publisher: A. Maccianchini
Published: 1933
Place of publication: Milan, Italy
Language: fre
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Equality before the law; Human rights; Marital status; Married women; Civil rights; Legal status, laws; Women's rights; International Alliance of Women
Description: The lawyer Giorgio Quartara provides an historical overview of marriage law for the Feminist Congress of Marseilles in 1933. He argues that women are legally enslaved by marriage in the West and, more provocatively, that contemporary understandings of marriage are inherited from the barbarian tribes which sacked the Roman Empire. Proposing the Roman system of marriage as a preferable alternative, Quartara, borrowing from John Stuart Mill, outlines the "personal" and "proprietary" forms of slavery encountered by the contemporary married woman. Quartara details marriage law in a comparative international context, citing numerous Western nations, to conclude that the insistence of controlling women's property and reproductive capacity is a holdover from medieval Europe.
Notes: Report/Statement.

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This edition in French.