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The Coalville Times
Coalville, Summit County, Utah
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In the Barca Valley of Abyssinia, women of a tribe have achieved emancipation without activism: they work while men idle, own the household, can evict husbands for unkindness (requiring a cow as amends), must publicly disdain husbands, and can leave with one-third of possessions; husbands cannot live outside their tents unless traveling.
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Women of Abyssinian Tribe Are Really Emancipated.
In the valley of the Barca, in Abyssinia there is a community where the women, without holding meetings or agitations of any kind, have emancipated themselves. All the women work hard, while the men are idle; but by way of compensation the house and all it contains belong to the wife. At the least unkind word she turns the husband out at night, in storm or rain, and he cannot come back until he makes amends by the gift of a cow. The wife considers it a duty to abuse the husband and if she were weak enough to show any love for him in life or grief at his death she would be scorned by her tribe. The wife, without any reason, may strike her tent and go, taking with her one-third of the joint possessions. The husband, unless he is traveling, may not live out of his tent.
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Valley Of The Barca, Abyssinia
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In the valley of the Barca, in Abyssinia there is a community where the women, without holding meetings or agitations of any kind, have emancipated themselves. All the women work hard, while the men are idle; but by way of compensation the house and all it contains belong to the wife. At the least unkind word she turns the husband out at night, in storm or rain, and he cannot come back until he makes amends by the gift of a cow. The wife considers it a duty to abuse the husband and if she were weak enough to show any love for him in life or grief at his death she would be scorned by her tribe. The wife, without any reason, may strike her tent and go, taking with her one-third of the joint possessions. The husband, unless he is traveling, may not live out of his tent.