The Woman Who Disappeared: Fascinating and Disturbing Trivia from the History of Women’s Rights in America - Couverture souple

Abbott, Adicus

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ISBN 13 : 9798170438594

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

What if getting married could make you less of a legal person?

For generations, American women lived under laws, customs, and institutional rules that could limit their control over property, wages, credit, education, employment, citizenship, marriage, and even their own signatures. Some of those restrictions disappeared long ago. Others survived far later than most people realize. In 1974, for example, Louisiana law still allowed a husband to mortgage community property without his wife’s consent under a statute that designated him the “head and master” of the marital community. The dispute eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Woman Who Disappeared uncovers the fascinating, disturbing, surprising, and sometimes almost unbelievable history behind women’s long struggle to be treated as independent individuals under American law. Through documented court cases, forgotten statutes, newspaper advertisements, financial practices, employment rules, personal stories, and astonishing historical quotations, Adicus Abbott reveals how ordinary women encountered extraordinary barriers in everyday life.

Could a woman keep the money she earned? Could a bank require her husband’s signature? Could marriage cost her a job? Could a qualified woman be barred from practicing law? Could employers openly advertise one job for men and another for women? Could citizenship, jury service, education, or property rights depend on sex?

The answers are often surprising. The dates are even more so.

Written as engaging popular history rather than an academic textbook, The Woman Who Disappeared turns centuries of legal and social change into memorable facts, revealing anecdotes, and true stories of women who challenged rules that once seemed perfectly ordinary.

Open the book and discover just how recently “equal” began to mean equal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798170438594
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 162
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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