Feminist reformers also challenged coverture by invoking equality. |
Under coverture a married woman could not sue or be sued unless her husband was party to the suit. |
Sholto felt nervously for his sword and cleared it instinctively of the coverture in which he was wrapped. |
As the legal restrictions of coverture were gradually abolished, its symbol lived on – and in some other countries it became law. |
There was another interpretation of coverture available, based on scriptural ideas, which focused not on the husband's power over his wife but on the unity that marriage gave them. |
After all, it is impossible to understand the doctrine of coverture. |