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#596 - Mary Harrington - Feminism Is No Longer Helping Women

Modern Wisdom

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Women's Role in the Home

In the 19th century, women were not legally allowed to own property. They give up all of their property to their husband when they get married. Women had enough clout in an informal way to say I think on the whole more than more or less make that work. In the industrial era suddenly they were radically disempowered relative to the way things had worked before. And for women who found themselves in an unhappy marriage that was it was awful.

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