Segue abaixo alguns trechos do livro Socialism (publicado em 1922, o que é importante ressaltar), onde Mises argumenta que a sociedade de mercado pode trazer igualdade para as mulheres nas relações com os homens, ao substituir a força pelo contrato voluntário nas relações interpessoais:
Unlimited rule of the male characterizes family relations where the principle of violence dominates. Male aggressiveness, which is implicit in the very nature of sexual relations, is here carried to the extreme. The man seizes possession of the woman and holds this sexual object in the same sense in which he has other goods of the outer world. Here woman becomes completely a thing. She is stolen and bought; she is given away, sold away, ordered away; in short, she is like a slave in the house. During life the man is her judge; when he dies she is buried in his grave along with his other possessions. With almost absolute unanimity the older legal sources of almost every nation show that this was once the lawful state of affairs.
Unlimited rule of the male characterizes family relations where the principle of violence dominates. Male aggressiveness, which is implicit in the very nature of sexual relations, is here carried to the extreme. The man seizes possession of the woman and holds this sexual object in the same sense in which he has other goods of the outer world. Here woman becomes completely a thing. She is stolen and bought; she is given away, sold away, ordered away; in short, she is like a slave in the house. During life the man is her judge; when he dies she is buried in his grave along with his other possessions. With almost absolute unanimity the older legal sources of almost every nation show that this was once the lawful state of affairs.
(…)
Nowadays only one opinion is expressed about the influence which the
"economic" has exercised on sexual relations; it is said to have been
thoroughly bad. The original natural purity of sexual intercourse has,
according to this view, been tainted by the interference of economic factors.
In no field of human life has the progress of culture and the increase of
wealth had a more pernicious effect. Prehistoric men and women paired in purest
love; in the pre-capitalist age, marriage and family life were simple and
natural, but Capitalism brought money marriages and mariages des convenances on the one hand, prostitution and
sexual excesses on the other. More recent historical and ethnographic research
has demonstrated the fallacy of this argument and has given us another view of
sexual life in primitive times and of primitive races. Modern literature has
revealed how far from the realities of rural life was our conception, even only
a short while ago, of the simple morals of the countryman. But the old
prejudices were too deep-rooted to have been seriously shaken by this. Besides,
socialistic literature, with the assistance of its peculiarly impressive
rhetoric, sought to popularize the legend by giving it a new pathos. Thus today
few people do not believe that the modern view of marriage as a contract is an
insult to the essential spirit of sexual union and that it was Capitalism which
destroyed the purity of family life.
(…)
Where the principle of violence dominates, polygamy is universal. Each
man has as many wives as he can defend. Wives are a form of property, of which
it is always better to have more than few. A man endeavours to own more wives,
just as he endeavours to own more slaves or cows; his moral attitude is the
same, in fact, for slaves, cows, and wives.
(…)
In order to protect
legally the property of wives and their children a sharp line is drawn between
legitimate and illegitimate connection and succession. The relation of husband
and wife is acknowledged as a contract. As the idea of contract enters the Law
of Marriage, it breaks the rule of the male, and makes the wife a partner with
equal rights. From a one-sided
relationship resting on force, marriage thus becomes a mutual agreement.
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