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which was reserved when her husband
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died to keep her in her widowhood
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and would eventually revert to the main heir of the family.
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So that was the law as regards women
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and in particular their property rights,
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and all of this was bolstered by widespread assumptions
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about the allegedly inferior capacities of women,
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not only in terms of physical strength
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but also in terms of an allegedly weakness
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of intellectual capacity and emotional stability.
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The piece on the longer reading list by Crawford
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and Mendelson on Women in Early Modern England