id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
fl-595	Thompson, Sharon	Twentieth Century Housewives and The Sexual Contract	2018		.htm	text/html	538	22	56	In this paper, I argue that The Sexual Contract enriches our understanding of the lived experiences of twentieth century housewives like Mrs Blackwell by looking to the root causes of their oppression and finding them in the sexual contract underpinning marriage. These are the words of Goddard LJ in Blackwell v Blackwell [1943] 2 All ER 579, where it was held that Mrs Blackwell’s savings of one hundred pounds ten shillings in the Oxford and District Co-operative Society were the property of her husband, from whom Mrs Blackwell had been separated for two years.	cache/fl-595.htm	txt/fl-595.txt