7 sentences with “divorce”

Legal power over the woman passed from the father to the husband, and in case of divorce reverted to the father.

The right to vote and the right to initiate divorce were thus "weapons of self-defence" according to first-wave feminists.

After decades of campaigning by feminists, divorce became a possibility in countries such as Britain and France in the late 19th century, but it remained difficult and expensive to obtain.

A funny thing happened at the time of the divorce. The father didn't get custody, and he didn't spend much time at home anyway, so who was going to miss him? Well... the children. But why?

Jackson had personal reasons for defending Eaton: he drew a parallel between Eaton's treatment and that of his late wife, Rachel, who had been the subject of reputational attacks related to her first marriage, which had ended in divorce.

Simultaneously, Henry VIII petitioned the Pope for a divorce, a practice that was strictly forbidden. The Pope refused, and defiantly in 1531 Henry, under the auspices of a compliant local Catholic leader, divorced Catherine and married Anne.

From the 1850s onwards, women across Europe could not vote, could not initiate divorce (in countries where divorce was even possible), could not control custody of children, could not pursue higher education, could not open bank accounts in their own name, could not maintain ownership of property inherited after marriage, could not sue or serve as legal witnesses, and could not maintain control of their own wages if they worked and married.