As a historian who knows her stuff [you], I'd love to hear your thoughts on that one. IIRC, TL;DR: well-intentioned measures to benefit a...
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group can backfire horribly against the same group. e.g, veil could have been protection against rival tribes. Now its oppression. But I ...
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don't know enough history to evaluate her claims. You do :D.
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Replying to @zarrabeitia
You can find my stuff on this on http://Academia.edu -see particularly Aemilia Lanyer and Margery Kempe but it is a hugely complex field
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Oh, I will, thanks! I suspect "hugely complex" is an understatement. It may be too complex for my puny brain. I hope not.
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eg Just reading Margery Kempe 14th-15th century. She speaks of having her own business against her husband's wishes. How?
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She had no right to her own money or to own a business tho women did run businesses in husband's name.
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She doesn't explain how she managed this suggesting she didn't need to. It would not have caused surprise but why wouldn't it?
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Best hypothesis - her father very influential, powerful man, left her money & informal agreement with husband that it was hers.
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Can't have been legally binding but the status of the Brunham family (hers) so much above the Kempes that it cld have been as good as.
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We get little snapshots like that which contradict laws & records that we know & have to try to piece it all together.
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