Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women’s Association and Family Law

Foreword\nContents\nTimeline\nAbbreviations\nPrologue: After the Vote: A Note about the Cover Photo\n	1. Quiet Revolutionaries\n		I. Chapter Outline\n		II. Through a Feminist Lens\n	2. Housewives: \'That Vast Army of the Great Unpaid\'\n		Introduction\n		I. The Root of the Problem: Legal Unity of Wife and Husband\n		II. The Homemaker/Breadwinner Dichotomy\n		III. New Feminism\n		IV. The Married Women\'s Association: A Sub-Committee of the Six Point Group\n		Conclusion\nInterlude: Juanita Frances\n	3. A Composite Portrait\n		Introduction\n		I. A Note About Biography\n		II. Radical Beliefs, Conservative Methods?\n		III. Portraits of Individual Members\n		IV. Tensions within the MWA\n		Conclusion\n	4. A New Marriage Law\n		Introduction\n		I. From Wages for Wives to Joint Ownership\n		II. A Bill for Equal Partnership in Marriage\n		III. Three Failed Attempts\n		Conclusion\n	5. Mrs Blackwell\n		Introduction\n		I. Blackwell v Blackwell\n		II. What the MWA did Next\n		III. Blackwell as a Case Study of Family Law Reform\n		Conclusion\nInterlude: A Note About Lord Denning\n	6. The Split\n		Introduction\n		I. The MWA Submissions to the Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce\n		II. The Royal Commission\"s Response\n		III. The Aftermath\n		Conclusion\nInterlude: Reform Movements are Like Builders\n	7. One Step at a Time\n		Introduction\n		I. Developing a Strategy for Reform\n		II. Housekeeping Savings\n		III. Piecemeal Reform: An Effective Strategy?\n		Conclusion\n	8. Resistance as a Reform Strategy\n		Introduction\n		I. The Context of Divorce Reform in the 1960s\n		II. Resisting Divorce, Strategising Reform\n		III. Matrimonial Property Bill 1969\n		Conclusion\nInterlude: Poor Reggie\n	Why I Think Men get a Rotten Deal over Divorce By Reggie\n	9. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back\n		Introduction\n		I. The Need for Further Reform\n		II. Equal Rights in the Home\n		III. The \'Meal Ticket for Life\'\r Backlash\n		Conclusion\n	10. A Subterranean Influence\n		Introduction\n		I. The MWA\'\rs Influence Upon Family Law\n		II. Lessons from Family Law Reformers\n		III. The Relevance of the MWA\'s Campaigns Today\nAfterword\nAcknowledgements\nArchive References\nBibliography\nIndex