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There is basis in a connection between the ideas/tropes you point out and early laws relegating women and children as chattle of a man.

The problem of the Childlike Empress at SF Novelists 2010

The key is to stop treating children like chattle to be controled, and recognize them as people.

LIVE Blog: Chat with us during the show 2010

It always amazes me how the patriachy we supposedly chattle women under somehow misses how completely biased against men family court situations generally are.

Men shouldn't have opinions about women's issues? Steven Barnes 2009

If black people are excluded, neutered, black women treated like sexual chattle, killed protecting white people...

Is it O.K. to fire White guys? Steven Barnes 2009

They are treating their parents like chattle, instead of the national treasures that they are.

Too perfect to be dismissed & The Sarah Palin Show 2008

How was sexuality less cheap hundreds of years ago when wives were the chattle of their husbands, when wives could be legally beaten for any reason, including refusing to "service" their husbands, when it was perfectly normal for husbands to maintain mistresses to fulfill the sexual needs that often were lacking in these arranged marriages, and when women were punished extremely harshly, even fatally, for engaging in the same adulterous behavior?

Sound Politics: Why Is Seattle Such a Wuss About Strip Clubs? 2006

With Equiano's masochistic strategies in abeyance, he shifts from object of abasement to subject of punishment, from bonded chattle to bondsman.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

They are treating their parents like chattle, instead of the national treasures that they are.

Race, age, gender are taboo in election 2008

That will provide the theological basis for SD supporting Rapist Rights and treating women as nearly worthless chattle, good only as reproduction machines betting on hitting the Jesus bonus on the reproductive powerball lottery.

Firedoglake » South Dakota Blogger on the Rapists’ Rights Bill 2006

It's not going to forge any new territory in law about virtual goods and chattle.

The Droids We're Looking For? 2006