Marvin B. Rosenberry Quotes
While there are many persons, particularly those of the older generation, who are genuinely alarmed at the statutory modification of the family status as it existed at common law, there are an equal if not a greater number who see in the emancipation of married women a necessary genuine social advance.
The case was a protest against the 1921 law which gave equal rights to women of Wisconsin. See {587976}.
Marvin B. Rosenberry, 1868-1958, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, Wait v. Pierce, 1926
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This was de facto Equal Rights legislation.
This statement is referring to the custom of women covering their eyes whenever a man who they did not know passed them. Turks did not ever use Burkas the way some other Muslim countries do, but they wore headscarves and covered their eyes when a strange man appeared. This was a shocking statement in a sexist Islamic culture. Although the process of modernization and reform in Turkey was relatively bloodless, Ataturk was prepared to and did use force to defend it. This and many others made the role of women not only uniquely equal in the Islamic world, but women were suddenly elevated to the level of most Western nations and in voting rights were ahead of most. He used his own family to set an example. See {584503}.
Women were not, in the decisions of Canadian courts “Persons.” As such they were not allowed to serve as public officials and legislators. In 1929 the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council reversed previous interpretations and declared women eligible for all public offices. It became known as “The Persons Case.” Murphy then wrote her argument. Murphy wrote serious non-fiction under her own name and novels under the pseudonym Janey Canuck.
This relatively radical viewpoint regarding equal rights for women was expressed by Roosevelt as his Senior thesis at Harvard in 1880. In those days, the kind of scrutiny of everything a candidate ever wrote or said that is characteristic of modern politics, did not exist. It is very doubtful that if the Republican Party officials had ever known that he had espoused these views—even as a young student, that he ever would have risen so high in the party, much less get nominated at the Vice Presidential candidate which was his entree to the Presidency. When in office however, there is no record of him reviving his youthful proposal that women who marry retain their maiden names.
See Belva Lockwood {609865} for the view of the woman who lobbied heavily for the law and became the first woman to practice before the Supreme Court.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
The law at that time gave a married woman almost no rights. The husband legally controlled the family assets regardless of who had earned or provided them. He aslo had absolute control of the upbringing of the children. Women could not vote and in many states were considered property of the husband.
Her audiences were all familiar with the Adam & Eve Biblical narration.
At the time, most English socialists were not socially liberal while Crosland and others thought that they needed to be to be relevant to the coming generations and to be consistent with the principle of equality. There is no British Constitution like the American Constitution. The Parliament may has to change laws before any progress is made on social issues and civil rights. The courts may not override parliament, and the highest British Court is the House of Lords—part of Parliament.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
The most important documents and doctrine of most churches were created by men who also established the framework of the religion. The result has in almost all cases been a sexist structure with women having not only little power not typically females are banned from all church governance. See {640303} for her quote on religion in general vis a vis women.
Turkey, the only Islamic nation where women have equal rights, made huge developmental and reform strides immediately after Ataturk reformed Turkish society and gave women the vote, freed them from veils and chadors, educated them and gave them equal employment rights. Turkey moved from an impoverished 3rd world nation to a modern industrialized democracy.
- Born: February 12, 1868
- Died: February 15, 1958
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Marvin Bristol Rosenberry was an American lawyer and judge from Wisconsin. He was the 13th Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
