Ugh, who wants to have to write about coverture bc relevant to current events? Super short post bc apparently needs circulating. karinwulf.com/tidbits/cove...
Coverture, Now More than Ever - Karin Wulf
Coverture is a legal principle in which a married woman's legal identity and capacity is subsumed under her husband's.
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February 21, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Ugh, who wants to have to write about coverture bc relevant to current events? Super short post bc apparently needs circulating. karinwulf.com/tidbits/cove...
Pet coverture. Well developed doctrine. Dogs and cats pulled into the whirlwind too. But not like lizards or ferrets or other weird pets.
September 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Pet coverture. Well developed doctrine. Dogs and cats pulled into the whirlwind too. But not like lizards or ferrets or other weird pets.
It's why women's history is not a month, anymore than Black history is. It *is* the history.
**Here's a short recent thing I wrote about coverture. With references to some sources of course bc #footnotes. 6// karinwulf.com/tidbits/cove...
**Here's a short recent thing I wrote about coverture. With references to some sources of course bc #footnotes. 6// karinwulf.com/tidbits/cove...
Coverture, Now More than Ever - Karin Wulf
Coverture is a legal principle in which a married woman's legal identity and capacity is subsumed under her husband's.
karinwulf.com
April 2, 2026 at 11:51 AM
It's why women's history is not a month, anymore than Black history is. It *is* the history.
**Here's a short recent thing I wrote about coverture. With references to some sources of course bc #footnotes. 6// karinwulf.com/tidbits/cove...
**Here's a short recent thing I wrote about coverture. With references to some sources of course bc #footnotes. 6// karinwulf.com/tidbits/cove...
new game plus coverture chocolate on the 360 pad with the old official 360 wireless adapter feels so tight 🤓
February 14, 2026 at 4:25 AM
new game plus coverture chocolate on the 360 pad with the old official 360 wireless adapter feels so tight 🤓
The discussion of coverture was likely intended to serve this purpose, but it fails to convey how it left women vulnerable to physical & sexual abuse & only hints at its role in enabling pervasive economic exploitation.
April 3, 2026 at 6:30 PM
The discussion of coverture was likely intended to serve this purpose, but it fails to convey how it left women vulnerable to physical & sexual abuse & only hints at its role in enabling pervasive economic exploitation.
“Coverture, then and now”
August 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
“Coverture, then and now”
Coverture - which comes from the word "cover" - is the legal doctrine that when a man and woman marry, they become one flesh, and that one is the man. We see coverture all the time in period films like Pride & Prejudice. But did you know it also shows up in the Dick Van Dyke show?
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Coverture - which comes from the word "cover" - is the legal doctrine that when a man and woman marry, they become one flesh, and that one is the man. We see coverture all the time in period films like Pride & Prejudice. But did you know it also shows up in the Dick Van Dyke show?
Pleased to see this volume on married women & the law now out - the product of a great conference on coverture organized by Danaya Wright. (Rather pricey, but good for the library-wishlist!) #earlymodern #history www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-...
September 24, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Pleased to see this volume on married women & the law now out - the product of a great conference on coverture organized by Danaya Wright. (Rather pricey, but good for the library-wishlist!) #earlymodern #history www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-...
A v good piece.
Also and again, who wants to have to write about coverture as current events.
karinwulf.com/tidbits/cove...
Also and again, who wants to have to write about coverture as current events.
karinwulf.com/tidbits/cove...
May 14, 2026 at 11:42 AM
A v good piece.
Also and again, who wants to have to write about coverture as current events.
karinwulf.com/tidbits/cove...
Also and again, who wants to have to write about coverture as current events.
karinwulf.com/tidbits/cove...
Bewitched demonstrated that even with the aid of supernatural powers a woman once married could never escape the legal boundaries of coverture. In this essay I will
August 17, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Bewitched demonstrated that even with the aid of supernatural powers a woman once married could never escape the legal boundaries of coverture. In this essay I will
Relatedly, how I wish this little post wasn't relevant / necessary. karinwulf.com/tidbits/cove...
September 8, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Relatedly, how I wish this little post wasn't relevant / necessary. karinwulf.com/tidbits/cove...
i loooove how obvious it is that DJT's "team" did zero research on JDV, and now we get the slow rollout of the 5000 nutjob podcasts he was on last year proclaiming the need to reinstate coverture, revoke the 14th & 19th amendments, and ban rated-R movies and liquor
July 26, 2024 at 6:30 PM
i loooove how obvious it is that DJT's "team" did zero research on JDV, and now we get the slow rollout of the 5000 nutjob podcasts he was on last year proclaiming the need to reinstate coverture, revoke the 14th & 19th amendments, and ban rated-R movies and liquor
Reformer Josephine Butler (1828-1906, b. Northumberland), died on this day 1906. Arguably most effective campaigner for women’s rights of her time. She ended coverture (whereby woman’s legal rights were subsumed by her husband’s), criminalised child prostitution and human trafficking.
December 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Reformer Josephine Butler (1828-1906, b. Northumberland), died on this day 1906. Arguably most effective campaigner for women’s rights of her time. She ended coverture (whereby woman’s legal rights were subsumed by her husband’s), criminalised child prostitution and human trafficking.
White Christian Nationalist Men Want to Own Women | Unholy Ground
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open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
White Christian Nationalist Men Want to Own Women | Unholy Ground
Ever heard of "Coverture?"
open.substack.com
May 13, 2026 at 3:26 AM
White Christian Nationalist Men Want to Own Women | Unholy Ground
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Let's get down to real originalism: Coverture.
Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"
September 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Let's get down to real originalism: Coverture.
Back to coverture! (These f—-ers will do it, too.
September 26, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Back to coverture! (These f—-ers will do it, too.
No Black scholar is ever enmeshed in an institution that way. Don’t get institutional coverture because we are never really “of” the institution. Some Black elites get close if they toe the line but definitely not anyone from outside of it, like Arday. Or me.
September 2, 2026 at 1:18 PM
No Black scholar is ever enmeshed in an institution that way. Don’t get institutional coverture because we are never really “of” the institution. Some Black elites get close if they toe the line but definitely not anyone from outside of it, like Arday. Or me.
Why not just reinstate coverture?
As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:
“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates
The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.
www.nhpr.org
March 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Why not just reinstate coverture?
The name for this is "coverture" and it was a principle of common law for so long that it became taken as read without ever having to be stated out loud.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverture
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverture
Coverture - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
May 11, 2026 at 9:41 PM
The name for this is "coverture" and it was a principle of common law for so long that it became taken as read without ever having to be stated out loud.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverture
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverture
You don't need consent if she's already said "I do"
(OK, I grossed myself out....but, coverture)
(OK, I grossed myself out....but, coverture)
June 16, 2026 at 6:09 PM
You don't need consent if she's already said "I do"
(OK, I grossed myself out....but, coverture)
(OK, I grossed myself out....but, coverture)
The principle of coverture (in which a woman's legal identity is subsumed by her husband's) is remarkably pernicious.
September 21, 2024 at 7:05 PM
The principle of coverture (in which a woman's legal identity is subsumed by her husband's) is remarkably pernicious.
Some sort of women's coverture theory no doubt.
May 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Some sort of women's coverture theory no doubt.
“Around here we believe in a ‘family wage’ for men and crushing, coverture-like domestic servitude and legal infantilization for women.”
February 9, 2024 at 2:56 PM
“Around here we believe in a ‘family wage’ for men and crushing, coverture-like domestic servitude and legal infantilization for women.”