Rebecca DeWolf, PhD
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Historian. Author of Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920-1963. (UNP, 2021) posts=my own thoughts. #ERA
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Awesome. Thank you so much! Will check out White’s work.
July 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Awesome. Thank you so much! Will check out White’s work.
Nice! Thank you! What secondary sources did you find helpful for divorce history? I am in the middle of Cott's Public Vows and Hartog's Man and wife. Also have Basch's work on divorce. Is there another work that I should look through?
July 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Nice! Thank you! What secondary sources did you find helpful for divorce history? I am in the middle of Cott's Public Vows and Hartog's Man and wife. Also have Basch's work on divorce. Is there another work that I should look through?
Ah! Got it! That makes much more sense. I was thinking they would have a part where she moves to Indiana for a divorce. I am usually doing chores when I have the show on and I missed that part of the storyline where she wants to move to RI. Thank you!
July 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Ah! Got it! That makes much more sense. I was thinking they would have a part where she moves to Indiana for a divorce. I am usually doing chores when I have the show on and I missed that part of the storyline where she wants to move to RI. Thank you!
Yes, I am in the middle of researching New York's divorce legal history for my current book project on the criminalization of abortion and the married women's property rights. So that is why this issue is popping up for me. (4)
July 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Yes, I am in the middle of researching New York's divorce legal history for my current book project on the criminalization of abortion and the married women's property rights. So that is why this issue is popping up for me. (4)
I haven't finished episode three, so maybe that discrepancy will be cleared up. But if Charles Fane wants his wife, Aurora, to sue for divorce in New York based on his adultery, then he would most likely not be permitted to marry his mistress after the divorce. (3)
July 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I haven't finished episode three, so maybe that discrepancy will be cleared up. But if Charles Fane wants his wife, Aurora, to sue for divorce in New York based on his adultery, then he would most likely not be permitted to marry his mistress after the divorce. (3)
New York had one of the most restrictive divorce statutes. It permitted divorce only in the case of adultery. If that was established, it usually meant that the offending party could not remarry until the former spouse had passed away. (2)
July 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
New York had one of the most restrictive divorce statutes. It permitted divorce only in the case of adultery. If that was established, it usually meant that the offending party could not remarry until the former spouse had passed away. (2)