Happy Wednesday! This is the last of three posts about women and property (at least for a week or two), and we’re ending with a post about the return of coverture. The idea of coverture has been in the Substack atmosphere lately, and I’ll take any opportunity to talk about coverture (I’ve written about it here and here). So, let’s do this. We’re in a new era of coverture. It’s true. All signs point to the onset of a period defined by attenuated legal rights for women. Coverture 2.0, however, is more than a return to the patriarchal household. Coverture, in its modern redesign, is a framework of legal oppression and disempowerment specifically crafted to erode the legal advances that gave women property rights … (more)
[Allison Tait, Inheriting Inequality, 1 April 2026]
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