
Domestic Secrets
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A public sphere of influence — including the wife’s family and the local community — held sway over spousal property rights throughout most of the seventeenth century, Agren argues. Around 1700, a campaign to codify spousal property rights as an arcanum domesticum, or domestic secret, aimed to increase efficiency in legal decision making. New regulatory changes indeed reduced familial interference, but they also made families less likely to give land to women.
The advent of the print medium ushered property issues back into the public sphere, this time on a national scale, Agren explains. Mass politicization increased sympathy for women, and public debate popularized more progressive ideas about the economic contributions of women to marriage, leading to mid-nineteenth-century legal reforms that were more favorable to women. Agren’s work enhances our understanding of how societies have conceived of women’s contributions to the fundamental institutions of marriage and the family, using as an example a country with far-reaching influence during and after the Enlightenment.
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- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 DOMESTIC SECRETS
- Protecting Women's Property Rights: The Existing Picture
- Domestic Secrecy as Simplification of the Law
- Domestic Secrecy as Privacy
- Methodology
- Land, Population, and Courts
- Sources
- 2 THE COUPLE BETWEEN KIN, STATE, & LOCAL COMMUNITY
- Protecting Women's Rights to Land: The Kin Veto
- Protecting Women's Rights to Money: The Blind Spot
- Separate or Together? The Right to Draw Up a Will
- State Impact upon Property Law
- In the Local Public Sphere
- Conclusions
- 3 SUBTLE CHANGES
- The Dynamic Aspects of Property
- The Veto Debate: Can a Husband Use His Wife's Property to Cover His Own Debts?
- The Increasing Importance of Privacy
- Adapting Law to a Commercialized Society
- Male and Female Responsibilities
- Conclusions
- 4 DETERIORATING RIGHTS & COMPENSATING PRACTICES: The Eighteenth-Century Transformation
- A Word of Enlightenment
- Factors Promoting the Sale of Married Women's Inherited Lands
- Guarding Widows' Rights
- The Increasing Use of Contractual and Testamentary Arrangements
- Explaining Silence
- Women and Proletarianization
- Conclusions
- 5 BANKRUPTCY & THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW PUBLIC SPHERE
- Freedom and Publicity
- Bankruptcy Law
- Property and Debt Exposed in the New Public Sphere
- Women's Use of the New Public Sphere
- The Impact of the Published Legal Documents
- Conclusions
- 6 DRASTIC CHANGES
- The Reform Era
- The Need to Reform Marital Rights
- A New Relationship between the Sexes?
- Men's and Women's Contributions to Society
- The Best Way of Using Land
- The Abolition of Lineage Property
- The Final Result
- Conclusions
- 7 THE RESTRICTED VISION OF THE LAW
- Three Ways of Looking at Long-Term Developments
- Fredrika Bremer and the Birth of Women's Rights
- Women's Property Rights and the Credit Nexus
- The Restricted Vision of the Law
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- Glossary of Swedish Words
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