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A Century of Promise • 1851900. It was not just that German women were denied rights under the bürgerlichesociopolitical arrangements, but that they, indeed, experienced legislated regressrather than progress.Notes1. Jacob Grimm, Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer (1828), p. 557.2. Stephan Buchholz, ‘Ehe- und Familienrecht’, in Helmut Coing (ed.), Handbuchder Quellen und Literatur der neueren europäischen Privatrechtsgeschichte,vol. 3, Das 19. Jahrhundert, vol. 2 (1982), p. 1663.3. Joan Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (1988), pp. 1–11.4. Rudolf Nieberding, ‘Erste Berathung des BGB im Plenum des Reichstags’(1896), in Benno Mugdan (ed.), Die gesammten Materialien zum BürgerlichenGesetzbuch für das Deutsche Reich (1899).5. Ibid.6. Ibid.7. Ibid.8. Ibid.9. Richard Schroeder, Geschichte des ehelichen Güterrechts in Deutschland: DieZeit der Volksrechte (1863), pt. 1, p. vi.10. Buchholz, ‘Ehe- und Familienrecht’, pp. 1627–73.11. Rudolf Hübner, Principles of Germanic Private Law, Francis S. Philbrick (trans.)(1918), p. 23.12. ‘Bayerns Partikularrechte’, Münchener Neueste Nachrichten (4 March 1894).13. Richard Evans, The Feminist Movement in Germany 1894–1933 (1976), pp. 12–13.14. Nieberding, ‘Erste Berathung des BGB’.15. Ernest Benz, Fertility, Wealth, and Politics in Three Southwest German Villages:1650–1900 (1999), pp. 54–5.16. Ibid.17. Ibid.18. Ibid.; and Jack Goody, ‘Inheritance, Property and Women: Some ComparativeConsiderations’, in Jack Goody, Joan Thirsk and Edward Thompson (eds), Familyand Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe 1200–1800 (1976).19. Heide Wunder, He Is the Sun, She Is the Moon: Women in Early Modern Germany(1998), p. 202.20. Ibid., p. 89.21. Ibid., p. 203.22. David Sabean, Property, Production and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700–1870(1990), p. 174.23. Ibid.