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I found this article on Property and personalism very interesting. The comparisons from the male use of the will to equally divide assets for the purpose of financial support to women’s selective gift giving based on personal merit and need, including for slaves was very enlightening on how wills were used and who benefited from them and why. I agree with Marsha’s comment about how this is still common with grandmothers and hand selecting items to give, as this was the case with my own. Does this help reflect similarities in gender roles to today’s women? I think it’s an interesting idea for comparison. I would have liked if the author was clearer about the historical reasons there was increase in women’s legal activities up to 1860. How does the increase in population affect this increase in numbers of active legal women? Changes about education, legal rights, gender roles? I think I would have liked more facts in addition to the analysis of sentimentality. – Elyse Lawrence | I found this article on Property and personalism very interesting. The comparisons from the male use of the will to equally divide assets for the purpose of financial support to women’s selective gift giving based on personal merit and need, including for slaves was very enlightening on how wills were used and who benefited from them and why. I agree with Marsha’s comment about how this is still common with grandmothers and hand selecting items to give, as this was the case with my own. Does this help reflect similarities in gender roles to today’s women? I think it’s an interesting idea for comparison. I would have liked if the author was clearer about the historical reasons there was increase in women’s legal activities up to 1860. How does the increase in population affect this increase in numbers of active legal women? Changes about education, legal rights, gender roles? I think I would have liked more facts in addition to the analysis of sentimentality. – Elyse Lawrence | ||
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| + | I think this article really distinguishes the differences between men and women during this period regarding their property after death. For instance the fact that women were more concerned with the distribution of property based on need instead of the more common male practice of leaving the most valuable assets (property) to sons. It seems that men wanted to make sure the financial gains they had achieved would be well taken care of, as opposed to women who took a more individual look at need and personal relationships. I found it especially interesting that in Mary Bolling's will she actually warned her daughters against suing her estate for anything or they would lose everything she had left them. Which brings up the question of how often were wills contested and were they successful or not? It was also interesting that even those women who were poor left wills in order to make sure their positions went to people who they wished to have them.--Nancy Lee | ||
