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‘A prisoner on the rack’ – how 19th-century Australian women wrote about marital rape

  • Written by Zoe Smith, PhD Candidate, School of History, Australian National University
‘A prisoner on the rack’ – how 19th-century Australian women wrote about marital rapeEdgar Degas, Interior, 1868 or 1869.Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA

In late 19th-century Australia, a husband could legally rape his wife. Officially, he was still allowed to do so, in some Australian jurisdictions, until as late as 1994. Legal traditions inherited from the British Empire included coverture, the notion that a wife lost her legal...

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