Second, no one was talking about the legal mechanism that actually underlay the entire debate: coverture. Coverture is an arcane but newly relevant legal idea that goes all the way back to the ...

Married women lived under the legal doctrine of coverture, in which their individual, legal identities were subsumed under those of their husbands. The oft-cited legal commentator, Sir William ...

Legally, coverture relegated married white women to “civil death.” Fehrman alludes to coverture when he mentions that husbands “controlled their wives’ property, their income, even their ...

The justification for placing Indigenous men in this role was the British doctrine of coverture. Much has been said about the legal fictions that formed the foundation of colonialism, like the ...

Coverture denied women a separate legal identity. After being born, a woman was "covered" by her father's identity. Later, ...

The justification for placing Indigenous men in this role was the British doctrine of coverture. Much has been said about the legal fictions that formed the foundation of colonialism, like the ...

The legal institution of coverture made the property a woman brought into her marriage into the property of her husband. This also meant that if a husband was in debt, a creditor could claim the ...

In 1937, New York passed a law allowing women to exclude themselves from jury duty to avoid being sequestered in a room with men or forced to hear “sordid evidence.” At least they could serve ...

A patriarchal approach has limited Indigenous women’s rights under the long discredited doctrine of coverture. Photo by Liam Hill-Allan via Shutterstock. The recent controversy surrounding Mary ...

For many, this was a pragmatic choice due to coverture laws enforced throughout the United States. Coverture was a legal concept by which women lost any identity upon marriage and became ...

British jurist William Blackstone was one of the 18th-century legal authorities who enforced coverture, the doctrine that said anything married women possessed belonged to their husbands ...