Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“In the name of her personality as of her work, woman desires with ever greater right full majority and legal equality with man in marriage.”
- Source
- The Woman Movement
- Date
- 1912
- Local voice
- Authorial / signed preface voice · Ellen Key (translated authorial voice)
- English wording
- Mamah Bouton Borthwick — Translator · from Swedish
Meaning of “In the name of her personality as of…”
Key describes the women’s movement as extending claims for personal adulthood and equal legal standing into marriage itself.
Where does it come from?
The Woman Movement, represented by Project Gutenberg #60840, 1912, translated by Mamah Bouton Borthwick. Key is describing historical women’s-rights demands and changing marriage law in her own period; the passage is not a statement of present-day law.
Why the local voice matters
The Woman Movement, translated by Mamah Bouton Borthwick. Key describes an early-twentieth-century women’s-rights demand for legal adulthood and equality in marriage; it is historical social argument, not a current legal-status statement.