ABSTRACT
The woman's movement, if it is to be logically consistent, must not cease to protest against all those external forms of public life which imply a depreciation of woman, or a lower estimation of woman than of man. The complete change of name which a woman undergoes at marriage is open to a criticism of precisely the same order. The position of the married woman as a dependent or chattel further finds expression in the fact that, in Germany at least, the wife assumes the husband's titles and dignities. Whereas in Germany the wife's name, masked by extraneous titles, commonly disappears from view, chapter find that other nations preserve at least the Christian name in intimate social intercourse. Although, economically speaking, far beyond the agrarian stage, in social and political matters the country is still largely dominated by the conceptions proper to agrarian feudalism.
