This commitment has led us "through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall" 2 towards the equality that we enjoy today. This Article concerns the prehistory to the Seneca Falls Convention of Women's Rights, alluded to by President Obama. It is a journey that began during the infancy of the common law in medieval England. It leads through the construction, by generations of English lawyers and religious figures, of a strong and imposing monolith of patriarchal rule. By marriage women lost their independent legal personality and were, for purposes of law, incorporated into their husband in accord with the legal doctrine known as coverture. The husband represented the family in civic affairs, was exclusively empowered to make all legally effective decisions for the family, and generally governed his wife and household. This Article is a history of the early phases of the challenge brought against this mode of organizing domestic life. Mary Wollstonecraft, a selfmade woman of the eighteenth century, objected to male domination in her books, essays, and works of fiction. She coined the expression "rights of

We study (generalized) discrete symmetries of 2d semisimple TQFTs. These are 2d TQFTs whose "fusion rules" can be diagonalized. We show that, in this special basis, the 0-form symmetries always act as permutations while 1-form symmetries act by phases. This leads to an explicit description of the gauging of these symmetries. One application of our results is a generalization of the equivariant Verlinde formula to the case of general Lie groups. The generalized formula leads to many predictions for the geometry of Hitchin moduli spaces, which we explicitly check in several cases with low genus and SOp3q gauge group.

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