[lbo-talk] Oberlin College: Hell on Earth

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 11 08:16:24 PST 2003


No, and it's not true in law. The common law never permitted a man to "chastise" his wife with a stick of any size. Or otrherwise. Legally speaking, wife beating was grounds for divorce (under Protestantism), so obviously not legally sanctioned. jks

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Miles Jackson wrote:
>
> >I'm getting tired of
> >earnest feminists complaining of my "patriarchal"
> >vocabulary when I use the term "rule of thumb" in
> >my research methods course.
>
> It's not even true, that etymology, is it?
>
> Doug
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