A Law More Nice Than Just

Fanny Fern’s A Law More Nice Than Just tells about the self-serving and oftentimes weird nature of some of our laws. It could just be considered as a small case of weird clothing laws, wherein women at those times were not allowed to wear men’s apparel. However, it could also be viewed in a much different light: men who made such laws somehow made them in their favor. Gender bias was a commonplace at those times that it wouldn’t really be a shock to encounter such laws forbidding women to wear...