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United States, Massachusetts: A 17th-century law in Massachusetts announced that women would be subjected to the same treatment as witches if they lured men into marriage via the use of high-heeled shoes. [55] 1629. Japan: Women's kabuki, called onna-kabuki, was banned in Japan in 1629 for being too erotic. [56]
That includes actual law reforms as well as other formal changes, such as reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents. Formal changes and reforms regarding women's right to vote are exempted from this timeline: for that right, see Timeline of women's suffrage.
The following timeline represents formal legal changes and reforms regarding women's rights in the United States except voting rights. It includes actual law reforms as well as other formal changes, such as reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents.
The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.The act reformed the law on divorce, moving litigation from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to the civil courts, establishing a model of marriage based on contract rather than sacrament and widening the availability of divorce beyond those who could afford to bring proceedings ...
Coverture was first substantially modified by late-19th-century Married Women's Property Acts passed in various common-law jurisdictions, and was weakened and eventually eliminated by later reforms. Certain aspects of coverture (mainly concerned with preventing a wife from unilaterally incurring major financial obligations for which her husband ...
Before the Act was passed, women lost all ownership over their property when they became married: "From the early thirteenth century until 1870, English Common law held that most of the property that a wife had owned as a feme sole came under the control of the husband at the time of the marriage". [5]
The Marriage Act 1836 [1] (6 & 7 Will. 4. c. c. 85), also known as the Act for Marriages in England 1836 or the Broomstick Marriage Act , was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that legalised civil marriage [ 4 ] in what is now England and Wales [ 5 ] from 30 June 1837.
Feminism emerged by the speech about the reform and correction of democracy based on equalitarian conditions. [61] Leading up to the early 19th century, white women in Colonial America were socially expected to remain domestically confined and their property and political rights were severely limited and controlled by marriage.