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"Women Is The Center of Home and Family Life" and the Gwendolyn Hoyt case is explored in section IV of Kerber's No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship. The fourth section of this book is an interesting selection of commentary on this statement and the Gwendolyn Rogers Hoyt case because the statement mentioned abuse and the Hoyt case seem to overlap into a strong feminist critique of history. I did not realize that women could not serve on juries until the 1960's in Florida. Kerber uses this fact to support her argument for the passage of an Equal Rights Amendment in later decades by Congress. Just what remains in the obligations of citizenship in the U.S. remains a debatable question in present times as well.
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I thought the mention of the Equal Rights Amendment to be interesting, as this is a part of the Constitution that never happened but has been largely forgotten a few decades later. The question is, does the 14th amendment and the Equal Protection clause do enough to ensure equal rights for women?
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