Emanciparea femeii și rolul ei în problema divorțului în a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea în Transilvania
The emancipation of women and her role in the separation process in Transilvania in the second half of XIXth Century

Summary/Abstract: The question of conjugal violence has aroused in the second half of the XIXth century the interest of State and also of the Church. The two institutions had finally come to an agreement; to implement laws with would help in the conjugal violence cases and also in the judicial processes which were instrumented because of those. The Canonic Law Compendium (1868) and the Austrian Civil Law Code (1811) which comes into effect in Transylvania in 1853 very close chronologically to the first are complementing each other. Another important moment of the post 1984 Revolution was the process of women’s emancipation. The first extremely important step made by the Transylvanian women, following the example of their counterparts from abroad was to bring the Romanian women to a higher social level, by sustaining a breath of fresh air in modernization, culture. Even if the moment picked by the Ladies coincided with the Revolution, they managed to win in their fight. Creating female reunions, sustained by big press campaigns in the whole intracarpathic space, they managed in a relatively short time to found schools for girls, pensions where the young girls were taught basic things: to read, to write, basic math; they were trained in household related problems. There were taught to be more than simple wife’s, housekeepers, household keepers, just because the husband brought money in the house. The women are now somewhat emancipated, and they became the majority of those filing for divorce, a thing uncommon before that period. The conjugal violence becomes a central piece of the divorces, and, even if at the beginning the files are postponed or the women lose the judicial process, nevertheless in the end they will emerge victorious, thus showing that they are more than simple live partners of the men, and that they have equal society rights

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