Evelina And The Subordination Of Women

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February 23, 2015

 

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We see examples of these injustices throughout the text of Evelina as well as in the excerpts in the course packet. Eighteenth-century English jurist Sir William Blackstone declared in a magisterial passage, "By marriage, the very being or legal existence of a woman is suspended, or at least it is incorporated or consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover she performs everything, and she is therefore called in our law a femme-covert" (The Nineteenth Century Intro...
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Pg. 171). It was not until 1848, in the married woman's property act of New York that women gained some rights regarding material possessions. Education (differences in what men and women are taught) A "liberal education" as described in Defoe's Essay on Projects, 1697, consisted mainly of embroidery, modeling in wax, painting on glass, and musical accomplishments, although some girls' schools did put on plays and teach cooking skills...
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