Use the following excerpt from Mary Wollstonecraft's work to answer the question below: "The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger, and, though conviction may not silence many boisterous disputants, yet, when any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation."-Public Domain Wollstonecraft implies in this statement that the treatment of wives by their husbands in her day was which of the following?