Autore: Mary Lyndon Shanley

John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women is a landmark work both in the long history of women’s struggles for political, legal, economic, and personal equality, and in the shorter history of rigoro …

From the ground breaking legal decisions on gay marriage to the promotion of marriage for low-income families, the "sacred institution" of marriage has turned into a public battleground. Wh …

Bridging the fields of political theory and history, this comprehensive study of Victorian reforms in marriage law reshapes our understanding of the feminist movement of that period. As Mary Shanley …