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Bernard Harcourt, Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought (CCCCT)
13/13 CCCT, Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought (CCCCT)
The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and Columbia Global Center - Paris
Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought (CCCCT) presents 10/13 | ABOLISHING COVERTURE
Professors Dorothy Roberts and Bernard E. Harcourt read and discuss:
“Wives, Slaves and Wage Slaves” by Carole Pateman
Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts
About this seminar:
This seminar will explore the campaign to end and the abolition of coverture and other forms of men’s domination over women in the marriage context. Under the law of coverture, a married woman essentially became the property of her husband and lost her civil rights to contract or own property, as she was effectively merged into her husband. These de jure relations were ultimately displaced, but had long-lasting shadows over marital relations including, for instance, the exception to rape laws for marital rape. This seminar will explore the long legacy of coverture.
Abolition 13/13 information, including bibliographies, can be found here.
