Thank you Dr. Lovejoy for sharing these deeply relevant nuances of older women’s experiences under U.S. democracy.
…and that’s not even looking at obsolete SS benefits for women of the ‘60s Liberation movements, particularly for 1st wives and mothers. “Coverture” continues into 21st Century’s 3rd decade at full-speed.
“Corporations may be people, but women are commodified objects, with little access to power. We are still subsumed by coverture laws, and more importantly embedded cultural and economic remnants of assumed coverture.”
Thank you Dr. Lovejoy for sharing these deeply relevant nuances of older women’s experiences under U.S. democracy.
…and that’s not even looking at obsolete SS benefits for women of the ‘60s Liberation movements, particularly for 1st wives and mothers. “Coverture” continues into 21st Century’s 3rd decade at full-speed.
“Corporations may be people, but women are commodified objects, with little access to power. We are still subsumed by coverture laws, and more importantly embedded cultural and economic remnants of assumed coverture.”
Still a long walk ahead.