 | Elizabeth M. Bucar, Barbra Barnett - 2005 - 426 pàgines
...inconsistent and cruel. ... In childhood a woman must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband, and when her lord is dead to her sons. A woman must never be independent."149 But despite legal reforms in the last twenty years since Towards Equality, the rise... | |
 | Laurel - 2005 - 452 pàgines
...This misogynist position was further embellished by the following rules regarding the role of women: "In childhood a female must be subject to her father,...dead, to her sons. A woman must never be independent. Him to whom her father may give her, or her brother with the father's permission, she shall obey as... | |
 | Sharada J. Schaffter - 2006 - 322 pàgines
...one of his texts considered sacred by the Hindus, dashes any hope for an autonomous life for a woman: "In childhood a female must be subject to her father;...her lord is dead, to her sons. A woman must never be independent."39 The Islamic sacred text, the Quran says, "Men are in charge of women because Allah... | |
 | Alasdair T. R. Laurie - 2007 - 69 pàgines
...good qualities, a husband must be constantly worshipped as a god by a faithful wife. Manu 5. 148-149 In childhood a female must be subject to her father; in youth to her husband; when her lord [husband] is dead, to her sons. A woman must never be independent. She must not seek to separate from... | |
 | 1928 - 926 pàgines
...girl, a young woman, or even an aged one nothing must be done independently, even in her own house. In childhood a female must be subject to her father,...dead to her sons; a woman must never be independent." 59 And only in one case Manu recognized the free will of a maiden in the matter of her own marriage;... | |
 | Anthropological Society of Bombay - 1907 - 718 pàgines
...position of women.. The Menu-Smritti assigns to them a subordinate position. It says [V, 152] : " lu childhood a female must be subject to her father,...dead to her sons; a woman must never be independent ; " and "a wife may be beaten with a rope or a split bamboo, but on the back part of the body (only)... | |
 | Civacaṅkari - 2006 - 268 pàgines
...BC, they were commandments followed by unquestioning generations of women. The Manu Samhita intoned, "In childhood, a female must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband and when her lord is dead to her son. Women must never be independent." Mythili at eighteen was brought... | |
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In childhood, a female must be subject to her father, in youth, to her husband, when her lord is dead, to her sons ; a woman must never be independent. 
