Talk:Legal rights of women in history

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This page is at the moment only someone's (probably college) essay. It has some good information, but it needs a serious reworking, perhaps a complete rewriting, to be put into the proper Wikipedia format. Queerudite 00:50, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Actually, it comes mostly from the 1911 Britannica article on Woman (which you can review by checking the history of this redirect. Rossami (talk) 8 July 2005 00:16 (UTC)

[edit] Talk About Early Legal Rights Of Women

Women have had different legal rights since the dawn of mankind, even during hunter-gatherer societies. This needs to be pointed out, different legal rights of women did not only start during Mosiac Times. (unsigned post by Silverbackman)

The Blob about Scandinavia is completely wrong. Women had equal rights until Christianity came, even after that many of the old laws still applied. Among these is the right to divorce if her husband is not home for harvest (old viking heritage, he was assumed dead).

[edit] Yikes

So who the heck is going to rewrite this thing? I feel like it's pointless even editing it as it is. Alexander 007 04:05, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I'll rewrite it. It needs a scary amount of work but it looks like a valuable article. Kerowyn 09:27, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] geographic viewpoint

The current article focuses almost entirely on Western Europe, specifically ancient Rome and Christain societies. It badly needs sections on Africa, India, Asia, and probably also the tribal societies of the Americas and Australia. Kerowyn 09:16, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

This article should either be titled "Legal rights of women in Western history" or deleted. 68.40.42.127 17:46, 16 July 2006 (UTC)