“Arguing against inserting a Married Women’s Property Rights clause into the first California Constitution, one delegate to the Constitutional Convention voiced the sentiments of many: “The God of nature made women frail, lovely, dependent,” he declared. “The doctrine of women’s rights is the doctrine of [the tribe of] mental hermaphrodites”.”
— Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons, “Gay L.A.”
10:55pm
June 14, 2011
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