Woman as a Subordinate

Throughout history, women have been treated as a subordinate. There have been different standards for education, at women's disadvantage, different social standards, different responsibilities for men and women, different expectations, different standards for "goodness", different criteria for virtuousness. We see examples of these injustices throughout the text of Evelina as well as in the excerpts in the course packet.
Eighteenth-century English jurist Sir William Blackstone declared in a magisterial passage, "By marriage, the very being or legal existence of a woman is suspended, or at least it is incorporated or consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover she performs everything, and she is therefore called in our law a femme-covert" (The Nineteenth Century Intro. Pg. 171). It was not until 1848, in the married woman's property act of New York that women gained some rights regarding material possessions.......

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Title: Evelina And The Subordination Of Women
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