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addition, many women owned businesses; they worked as "apothecaries, barbers, blacksmiths, sextons, printers, tavern keepers and m...
(Voltaire Chapter 8). She began living the life of a prisoner of war for the most part. One author notes she was "ill-used by othe...
the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...
be educated together" (Wollstonecraft, 2005). She points out that if marriage is "the cement of society," then all mankind should ...
discontent with societys lopsided gender scale. The tale begins with Queen Guinevere pondering the fate of a knight who has been ...
cant say for certain, simply because women arent given the same opportunities as men to find out for sure. Women and Opportunities...
17th century way of saying "God told him to do it." But one of Davids progeny stood out, this being the brave...
social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...
Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...
entire society will suffer. Why limit the contributions of half the population because of the tradition of male dominance? Becau...
their exclusion from society, because since they were not accorded legal personalities, this meant "women were not included in the...
is not a phenomenon that emerges overnight. It builds over decades. Angelina and Sarah Grimke argued for womens rights a full ten ...
the same qualities that society considers intrinsic to, and acceptable in, women. This goes back to something that Freedman says ...
all elections and public referenda and [be] eligible for election to all publicly elected bodies" (quoted Sakr, 2000). Therefore, ...
romanticism prevents her from seeing Charles realistically prior to marriage and her failed expectations cloud her perception of h...
black women and women of color. There is a saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which attests to the epistemologi...
sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...
women as opposed to men. Women it seems are on the whole more interested in legislation involving the family and such issues as e...
single location" (Francis Lowell, 2001). Contemporary commentary on the way in which Lowells first factory seemed to spring up ov...
much in love, and neither of them is going to stray from the marriage during their separation. Well also imagine that at the time ...
taking place within and beyond our national borders" (NOW). In this statement one sees that the organizations aim was to fight for...
the right to vote. During the twentieth century, equality was the issue and in fact, some claim it is still an important fight. Th...
that they are to blame and are being criticized since the woman is not happy. If a woman expresses an emotion, she usually wants r...
to help the society survive, not to gain positions of power. Womens work, however, was considered just as crucial as that of the w...
herself to be more than just a social or racial icon. Instead, Condoleeza Rice has shown her ability to make decisions, be a part...
girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...
conceive was thus a serious problem" (Women in the Ancient World). Now, of course one could also argue that this was a patriarch...
women did more than this, and perhaps provided a great deal of the food consumed by families. Figueroa (1996) states that the wome...
stereotypes about lesser female competence" (Swim et al, 1995, p. 199). Modern sexism, however, is characterized by "the denial of...
underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...