The Good Wife: Stereotypes of Married Women in Irish Law
Keywords:
Law, Gender, Stereotypes, Married Women, Irish Law, Family LawAbstract
In this essay, I explore how the law, as it applied to spouses within marriage, reflected these stereotypes and perpetuated inequalities between husband and wife in Irish law. Many of the legal inequalities be- tween spouses have been purged from the legal system, but in the wake of the same sex marriage referendum, the law will have to revisit some of the last remaining rules which operate on a heteronormative, binary gender model.
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