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But even after coverture had become a distant memory, many states still insisted that husbands and wives could not enter into enforceable contracts with one another.
writ.news.findlaw.com Stone demanded an eradication of coverture, the folding of a wife's property into that of her husband.
en.wikipedia.org If a wife was permitted to work, under the laws of coverture, she was required to relinquish her wages to her husband.
en.wikipedia.org Stone kept her premarital family name after marriage as a protest against all manifestations of coverture.
en.wikipedia.org The end of coverture certainly ranks along with suffrage as the sine qua non of public recognition of womens autonomy and personhood.
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