TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chambers,Lori
TI  - Married Women and the Law of Property in Victorian Ontario
T2  - Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
SN  - 9780802008541
AV  - KEO222 
U1  - 346.71301/66 
PY  - 1997///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Marital property
KW  - Ontario
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Married women
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Separate property
KW  - LAW / Legal History
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Until this century, married women had no legal right to hold, use, or dispose of property. Since the ownership of property is a critical measure of social status, the married women's property acts of the nineteenth century were important landmarks in the legal emancipation of women. Reform campaigns represented the first organized attempts by women in Upper Canada to challenge their status in society. Ironically, emancipation was not the first goal of reformers: their demands reflected a concern with protection from economic instability. The laws granting women new rights and privileges were designed to force men to behave more responsibly and to mitigate the worst hardships imposed upon wives by abusive or negligent husbands.The most detailed and complete account of married women's property law reform yet written for any North American jurisdiction, this fascinating study will be of interest to those in the areas of law, women's studies, and nineteenth-century social history
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442677098
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442677098/original
ER  -