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“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.”
Meaning & context
Key describes the women’s movement as extending claims for personal adulthood and equal legal standing into marriage itself.
Source details
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.