10 minutes. prof. edwards: welcome, everybody. a little bit of a different class today. what we re going to talk about today is the legal and political landscape of the family from the revolution through the civil war. we are going to do a review of a few things we have worked on and then we will try to pull them together. we have essentially talked about two family models that competed with each other in the 19th century. the first being the model of the patriarchal family, that goes way back in law. it is based on the idea that once a woman marries, she is legally covered by her husband, that he is the person in the marriage, and in some ways, sometimes, a married woman could not actually be prosecuted because crimes were her husband s responsibility, if she was engaging in petty theft or something of that sort. the problem of breach of the peace was the husband s problem, he was supposed to control his dependents. needless to say, he had a different relationship with his w
few things we have worked on and then we will try to pull them together. aboute essentially talked that competedels with each other in the 19th century. the first being the model of the patriarchal family, that goes way back in law. that based on the idea once a woman marries, she is legally covered by her husband, that he is the person in the ,arriage, and in some ways sometimes, a married woman could not actually be prosecuted because crimes were her husband s responsibility, if she was engaging in petty theft or something of that sort. the problem of breach of the problem, the husband s he was supposed to control his dependence. needless to say, he had a different relationship with his wife them with his children or enslaved people, but he was the household authority, and that was the most important aspect of the family. but we traced in the first part of the course was a rise of a new model of a family. it is not exactly an opposite of the patriarchal family, a modificati
we are going to do a review of a few things we have worked on and then we will try to pull them together. we have essentially talked about two family models that competed with each other in the 19th century. the first being the model of the patriarchal family, which goes way back in law. it is based on the idea that once a woman marries, she is legally covered by her husband, that he is the person in the marriage, and in some ways, sometimes, a married woman could not actually be prosecuted because crimes were her husband s responsibility, if she was engaging in petty theft or something of that sort. the problem of breach of the peace was the husband s problem, because he was supposed to control all of his dependents. needless to say, he had a different relationship with his wife them with his children or apprentices or enslaved people, but he was the household authority, and that was the most important aspect of the family. what we have traced in the first part of the course
court and the press. in the man who hated women, a nissan brings to light their stories and describes how to activism laid the groundwork for expansion of women s rights in the future. amy sohn is the new york times best-selling author of 12 books which been published in 11 linkages and on five continents and is also screenwriter for television. she has written weekly columns for the downtown weekly new york press and the new york post and was a contributing editor at new york magazine for six years. as a freelance journalist she s written for the new york times, slate, arbors bazaar, men s journal, and many others. moderated elizabeth mitchell is the author of four nonfiction books and formally served as executive director of george magazine, the features editor of spin magazine, and a contributing editor to newsweek. her writing has appeared in the wall street journal, chicago tribune, comcast travel, glamour in the nation, among others. mitchell has been inte
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