Once they married, the woman could not keep control over any property she had before the marriage. The wife's livelihood, property and legal existence merged into that of her husbands. ... Eventually through new laws being passed, married women gained considerable rights in relation to property and separate income. ...
Spence defines the meaning of property in seventeen century China. Women like any other piece of property belonged to their husbands. ... Because of the Legal Code in the county, widows alone had a little chance to inherit a deceased husband's property. ... The law would have allowed the tree brothers to inherit the property if woman P'eng had remarried, or if there was no son to receive the property. ... After a year had passed, he still had not paid his debt, so the creditors came, and collected his wife (p. 82). ...
Women during the Elizabethan era were not allowed to have any possessions and were usually passed on to their husband or any other male in their lives. "When it came to property, a woman gave up all of her rights to own land and such things to her husband. ... "Come, go with me: I will go seek the king./ This is the very ecstasy of love,/ Whose violent property fordoes itself/ And leads the will to desperate undertakings/ As oft as any passion under heaven/ That does afflict our natures," (2.1.101-106) as mentioned by Polonius. ...
Women were thought of as property and when they would leave their home, had to be escorted. ... She would then pass on her father's inheritance to her spouse. ... Almost like a piece of property that King Hrothgar owns. ... They were still no thought of as equal, but no longer looked at as a liability or property for someone to own. ...
However they did acquire a dowry at birth that was passed on to the husband that the father had chosen for his daughter. ... Before the age of eighteen, Spartan women had to compete in to pass a physical test which granted her citizenship and eligibility to marry. ... Whereas Athenian women viewed as property of their husband that could be discarded at the man's discretion. ...
Rome was founded as a patriarchal society, women were the property of their fathers later their husbands. ... While Hebrew view women as impure, Romans saw women as properties. ... Women were not allowed to own property, hold office and respectable women were not even suppose to be wandering around alone outside. ... A woman had power in her ability to influence and pass onto her children. ... Romans governed their women like children and treated them as subjects and property. ...
In 1870, an Act was passed so that married women could own personal property. August, 1902, NSW women were finally granted the right to vote. The federal and state move was welcomed by women's groups. In 1902, Ada Emily Evans was the first woman in Australia to qualify in law when she graduated ...
They owned property and slaves in Louisiana. ... A few years later the lady had passed away and left him a small leather pouch which contained a portrait of the boy's father. ... Three years passed when Georges learned that Alfred had became a father of a baby boy. ...
Lead by her husband the King, she reluctantly gave up her only child to be killed just so her husband's prophecy would not come to pass. ... She's another example of how women are considered property, sheep, or something to rule over. ... Because women are so devalued, sold to a man like property by her family using a dowry, she is still another victim of gender bias and even though achieved her goal, will continue to be viewed as just a lowly woman. ...
After 30 years of marriage Modou passes away due to heart failure. ... It Islamic community woman are often treated as property. ... Ramatoulaye because infuriated and tells him "you forgot I have a heart, a mind, I am not an object to be passed from one hand to another....
Islam does say that a man must present his wife with a dowry at the time her marries her, in order to acknowledge her status as an independent owner of property, and to make financial arrangements for her in the event of a divorce. ... The horrors faced by Hindu women were mainly the cause of ancient laws and customs passed down from one generation to the next, in much the same way some Islamic cultures have functioned. ... Women would then have to pass through a fire to determine guilt, and any sign of burns whatsoever was an indication of her infraction. ...
The abuse is pass down from one generation to the next. ... His real name is Alfred but we never know what his last name is until the end because the author doesn't want to classify the women as property of a man. ... Do we know how to appreciate life or are we just letting life pass us by? ...
(Stanton page 138) "Hills Like White Elephants" on the other hand, uses the hills to refer to the shape of the female body during pregnancy and the "white elephants" symbolize a property requiring much care, love, and attention. ... But, as Jig looks across the green valley a cloud passes overhead taking away the sunshine literally shadowing and fictively foreshadowing the ultimate death of the unborn child. ...
Eventually Chopin revealed that Armand was the one that carried the black genes that were passed on to the child, but because Desiree was constrained by the restrictions of her sex, she was blamed for the "unconscious injury she had brought upon Armand's home and his name" (Chopin). ... In conclusion, Kate Chopin's works, for example, "Desiree's Baby" and "Story of an Hour" showed me that during that era women were treated as property. ...
She's so overwhelmed and engaged with her interest that she even lets the man come inside the fence and into her property. ... She swung full around toward her husband so she could not see the little covered wagon and the mismatched team as the car passed them. ...
When a woman married, her wealth passed to her husband. ... For example, upon her return from the beach, Leonce berates her for staying out in the sun to long and looks at her "as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 266). ...
She maintained that women were born free and equal to men, and so being each one the "natural and inalienable" rights of liberty, property, security, must be granted to everyone, without discrimination of sex. ... They proceeded to take over the National Legislature, demanding a guaranteed supply of affordable bread, and passed mock legislation. ...
