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“Not until 1839 was the first American law passed to ensure women’s property rights.”
― First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role
― First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role
“Her famous “Remember the Ladies” letter to John during the revolution was primarily aimed at overturning the practice of coverture and safeguarding women from tyrannical or abusive husbands, but it was by no means a broad feminist appeal for women’s rights and full political equality, as some past historians suggested.”
― First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role
― First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role
“Use of the word “Europe” often became a code word for everything that needed to be eradicated in the new republican undertaking—from issues about rank, status, elaborate ceremonies, excessive luxury, corruption, and ostentatious fashions and lifestyles to the perceived “excessive influence of women on public life.”1”
― First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role
― First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role
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