#WifeBeater
WRVM Collection, 1981.0009.005, Gift of Robert & Nellie Holloway Schagel
Pillow case given as wedding gift, c. 1905
Progressive Era feminists questioned how many rights women were forced to give up when they got married. In the majority of states, women lost all their property rights once they were married, and wife beating wasn’t made illegal in all states until 1920. Marital rape wasn’t illegal in Washington until 1983.