Marriage Contracts in Various Contexts: Marital Property Rights, Sociocultural Aspects and Gender-specific Implications. Late-Eighteenth-Century Evidence from two Tirolean Court Districts

2011 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margareth Lanzinger
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Marriage Contracts ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Marital Property ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Specific

Social rights and duties in Babeuf and the neo-Babouvists (1786–1848)

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-553
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Roza
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
The Right

Abstract This article examines the conception of social rights found in the writings of François-Noël Babeuf in the late eighteenth century and those of his followers, the neo-Babouvists, in the first half of the nineteenth. Both believed that social rights were to be based on natural needs, which they categorized as physical and moral: while physical needs necessitated the right to subsistence, moral needs encompassed the right to education. Babeuf and the neo-Babouvists also believed that social rights were inseparable from principles of equality and the reciprocity of rights and duties among society’s members. The neo-Babouvists developed this notion of reciprocity into the view that labour laws and the right to work constituted the legitimate and reciprocal counterparts of the property rights of employers. This balancing of property rights and workers’ rights was to be provisional, however, pending the transformation of society towards a community of goods.

New voices from Southeast Asian women: A review essay

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Watson Andaya
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Asian Women ◽  
Dutch East India Company ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
And Gender

Historians may have come late to the study of women and gender in Southeast Asia, but when these three books are placed along a historiographical spectrum one can only be impressed at how far the field has moved in approach and methodology. Exploiting previously untapped sources that emanate from very different sites — a Dutch East India Company courtroom, the women's quarters of a Malay palace, the privacy of a Javanese home — the authors open up new avenues by which to explore the complexity of Southeast Asia's gender history. Though the contexts are very different, the movement through time (Wives,slaves and concubinesis set in the late eighteenth century,Victorious wivesin the nineteenth, andRealizing the dreamin the twentieth) provides an opportunity to gauge shifts in representations of ‘femaleness’, attitudes towards gender roles, and women's responses to change.

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