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Coverture and Dignity: A Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Hendrik Hartog
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Abstract

This short comment challenges efforts to expand the notion of a dignity taking to traditional legal structures, like those identified with “coverture.” It suggests that the inequalities of gender oppression are better understood as forms of “slow violence.” It also suggests how difficult it is to imagine and to institute remedies for wrongs rooted in long histories and in powerful structures of socialization.

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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , Fall 2016 , pp. 833 - 840
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2016 

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