In the early nineteenth century,the Anglo-American view of women was embodied in the legal concept of feme covert,which held that

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The concept of feme covert held that a wife's legal existence was completely subsumed by that of her husband. This meant that a married woman could not own property or make contracts without her husband's consent or authorization. The idea was that the husband had control over all of the assets, both physical property and material wealth, of the marriage, and the wife had no independent legal existence.

In the Early Nineteenth Century,the Anglo-American View of Women Was