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Abstract / Summary

The lawyer Giorgio Quartara provides an historical overview of marriage law for the Feminist Congress of Marseilles in 1933. He argues that women are legally enslaved by marriage in the West and, more provocatively, that contemporary understandings of marriage are inherited from the barbarian tribes which sacked the Roman Empire. Proposing the Roman system of marriage as a preferable alternative, Quartara, borrowing from John Stuart Mill, outlines the “personal” and “proprietary” forms of slavery encountered by the contemporary married woman. Quartara details marriage law in a comparative international context, citing numerous Western nations, to conclude that the insistence of controlling women’s property and reproductive capacity is a holdover from medieval Europe.

Field of Interest

Women and Social Movements

Author

Giorgio Quartara, fl. 1933

Publisher

A. Maccianchini

Collection

Women and Social Movements, International

Content Type

Government/institutional document

Duration

0 sec

Format

Text

Page Count

14

Publication Year

1933

Publisher

A. Maccianchini

Place Published / Released

Milan, Lombardia

Subject

Women and Social Movements, History, Women and Social Reform, Transnational Women’s Movement, Mujer y Reforma Social, Mulher e Reforma Social, Movimiento de Mujeres Transnacional, Movimento Feminista Transnacional, Imperio Romano, International Alliance of Women, Giorgio Quartara, fl. 1933, Roman Empire (Historical Place), Peace, International Governance, and International Law, Political and Human Rights, Marital Status, Equal Rights for Women, Equal Protection, Human Rights

Topic

Marital Status, Equal Rights for Women, Equal Protection, Human Rights

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Mujer y Reforma Social, Mulher e Reforma Social, Movimiento de Mujeres Transnacional, Movimento Feminista Transnacional, Imperio Romano