DYK it wasn’t until 1969 that #coverture came to an end in U.S. law? In “Eisenstadt v. Baird” Justice William J. Brennan declared that marriage was “an association of two individuals” & a wife was no longer an extension of her husband.
Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt.

DYK the 19thC spirit of #coverture survived in many ways in the 1960s USA? Wisconsin refused to pay the tuition of young women whose husbands were fighting the war in Vietnam because the wives LEGALLY lived in Vietnam w/their husbands so they were illegal residents of the state!

DYK the 19thC spirit of #coverture was still alive in 1960? “Family Weekly” magazine’s “Could You Win this ‘Good Wife’ Certificate?” listed the qualities of a good wife:
1. She makes her husband feel like he’s the boss.
2. She shares her husband’s goals as if they were her own.