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L'Esclavage de la femme mariée
written by Giorgio Quartara, fl. 1933 (Milan, Lombardia: A. Maccianchini, 1933), 14 page(s)
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 t...
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written by Giorgio Quartara, fl. 1933 (Milan, Lombardia: A. Maccianchini, 1933), 14 page(s)
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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, outline...
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.
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Collection
Women and Social Movements, International
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
Giorgio Quartara, fl. 1933
Date Published / Released
1933
Publisher
A. Maccianchini
Person Discussed
Giorgio Quartara, fl. 1933
Topic / Theme
Peace, International Governance, and International Law, Political and Human Rights, Marital Status, Equal Rights for Women, Equal Protection, Human Rights
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