Hello,
Linda K. Kerber's No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship makes several historical arguments that could be related to modern times. In section one, Rights and Obligations of women are detailed and special interest is paid to the Revolutionary time period in America were a struggle was being paid to women's interest. The question "Did women remain in a patriarchal society order in which their only free chosen was to their husbands." is a question that remains open for interpretation to this day. To a large extent the question remained unanswered in Revolutionary America, but recent court decisions and modern social change has made this question almost seem to take a different context.
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Thomas,
ReplyDeleteYour last statement really resonates with me. In reading the last chapter I could not help thinking about the recent decision to allow women to fight on the front lines. I wonder how that would have factored into Kerber's argument.
While I was reading the phrase: a woman's only free choice was her husband, I immediately thought about how this was probably an inaccurate statement for some women. How often did women marry a man because their father told them to?
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