Add to ORKGDuring the first wave feminist movement, women in Wisconsin gained many rights, making them more equal to men. However, one area in which they did not become more equal with men was inheritance rights. When husbands and wives died without a will, their estates were distributed according to the state's dower and curtesy laws. These laws allowed a husband to inherit more of his wife's estate than she could of his. Although by 1921 women in Wisconsin gained the right to vote and the state was the first to pass an Equal Rights Law, inheritance laws remained unchanged despite the campaigning of a few who saw dower and curtesy laws as an injustice
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When the American feminist movement is discussed in legal circles, conversation often proceeds as if...
As this Article shows, the conventional historical narrative of the divorce revolution is not so muc...
Why has the expansion of womens economic and political rights coincided with economic development? T...
The Evolution of Women\u27s Rights in Inheritance explores the period shortly after the passage of t...
Wisconsin's history of innovation in government, policy, education, and industry has been widel...
Beginning in 1839 and continuing through the early twentieth century, the American states passed inc...
Women in America needed the right to vote in order to further themselves in a male dominated world, ...
The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 --allowing women to vote in the United States--...
Starting in the early 1900\u27s, industrialization shifted the family dynamic for millions of Americ...
Review of: On Wisconsin Women: Working for Their Rights from Settlement to Suffrage. McBride, Genevi...
During a constitutional history course, I chose for a research project the passage of Nebraska\u27s ...
It is difficult to imagine that only seventy-five years ago, a woman\u27s right to vote was not prot...
This thesis will examine gendered political culture and masculinity in Indiana during the Progressiv...
PDF with text, black and white photographs, and bibliography (pages 23-25).In 1972, after the Equal ...
Madhu Kishwar, Ruth Vanita, 1990, “Inheritance Rights for Women: A Response to Some Commonly Express...
When the American feminist movement is discussed in legal circles, conversation often proceeds as if...
As this Article shows, the conventional historical narrative of the divorce revolution is not so muc...
Why has the expansion of womens economic and political rights coincided with economic development? T...