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[email protected]. Faculty Publications UC Hastings College of the Law Library Williams Joan Author: Joan C. Williams Source: Georgetown Law Journal Citation: 82 Geo. L.J. 2227 (1994). Title: Is Coverture Dead? Beyond a New Theory of Alimony Posted with permission of the publisher, GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL © 1994. Is Coverture Dead? Beyond a New Theory of Alimony JOAN WILLIAMS* Commentators who address the problem of women's and children's impoverishment upon divorce' generally define their goal as a "new theory * Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law. This article is dedicated to my mother, Jeanne Tedesche Williams. Many thanks for the help and com- ments of my reading group in Washington, D.C., and particularly to Naomi Cahn, Karen Czapanskiy, Elizabeth Samuels, and Laura Macklin; to Emily Van Tassel; to Jana Singer and Mitt Regan, whose extensive comments greatly improved the piece; and to Barbara Wood- house and June Carbone for ongoing conversations that have shaped my thinking.