Short History of Women's Rights by Eugene A. Hecker

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
WOMEN'S RIGHTS UNDER ROMAN LAW, 27 B.C.-527 A.D.
Women in marriage--
Their power over their property--
Divorce--
Women engaged in all business pursuits--
Instances of women suing and pleading in law--
Partiality of the law towards women--
Rights of inheritance--
Rights to higher education fully allowed-- ETC...

CHAPTER II
WOMEN AND THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Christ laid down ethical principles but not minute regulations--
The Apostles affected by Jewish and Oriental or Greek conceptions of women--
St. Paul and St. Peter on the position of women-- ETC...

CHAPTER III
RIGHTS OF WOMEN AS MODIFIED BY THE CHRISTIAN EMPERORS

CHAPTER IV
WOMEN AMONG THE GERMANIC PEOPLES

CHAPTER V
DIGRESSION ON THE LATER HISTORY OF ROMAN LAW
Explanation of the various social and political forces which affected the position of women in the Middle Ages

CHAPTER VI
THE CANON LAW AND THE ATTITUDE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

CHAPTER VII
WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN ENGLAND
Single women have always had private rights--
Power of parents--
Husband and wife--
Wife completely controlled by husband--
Divorce--
Jeremy Taylor and others on duty of women to bear husband's sins, ETC...

CHAPTER VIII
WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES

CHAPTER IX
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

CHAPTER X
FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS

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