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efforts were not in vain, inasmuch as they "helped awaken others that followed her and forced them to mount offensives against the...
in society. Admittedly, each of these women lived during a time in which, as Elizabeth Cady Stanton so aptly observed, men sought...
discussed, or not discussed during the time period, abortions were available to those who knew where to look. But, it was a danger...
no better illustrated than through a discussion of the particulars of our democracy itself, the particulars of who is allowed the ...
In response to this exclusion, the first ever convention was held to discuss womens rights, and this took place in Seneca Falls, N...
complete and unrelenting distinction between church and state. There would be no religious exceptions, whatsoever, and this inclu...
a kind of focus for the Feminist Movement that rejected the concept of femininity and the separation of men and women in the famil...
a woman becomes pregnant she is urged to quit and stay home with her children, without little realization of what the loss of that...
single women over the age of twenty-one and widows had the power to make contracts and hold property in her own name (22). A marri...
(Woolf, 2002). Written for a largely female readership over a hundred years after Wollstonecraft, Woolf can afford to be more cri...
their protectors in a state of dependence..The rule of inheritance was..traced through males to the exclusion of females" (Badawi,...
that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...
to vote, or take part in the political process. To place this in a large context we have t remember the rights of women are genera...
be accomplished through a land commission; * Establish courts that operate on Christian and other non-Muslim religious principles ...
speaks of the position of women in society, elements of a womans life that can often lead to a position where she is seen as littl...
the risk involved in the abortion is in and of itself a reason to suggest that it should be put off. Women use abortion-because it...
cooks, laundresses and saboteurs" Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation, Inc., 2007). They clearly had no righ...
in terms of political and economic equality. We can also say that political feminism officially began with the suffragette movemen...
aspects that a government may seek to control or influence, including inflation, unemployment, the balance of trade, foreign inves...
enough to overcome racial discrimination or the claims of the south that it needed slave labor to work the plantations (Coombs, 19...
love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...
gender equality has come to reflect equity of human rights, as well. This Western ideology, however, has not infiltrated those gl...
before, however, Islam is very much an "exposed" religion. It comes to us through practically every medium as each news or public...
not as if womens suffrage would come about immediately and without any history. During the Renaissance, both men and women planted...
romances, and their association with violence discloses the cultural anxieties about nation-making. Samuels reads the figure of wo...
women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...
to confront the first Caliph of the Islamic nation. The Shiites, in contrast, felt like this position was destined to be filled w...
She further notes, for example, how "The sensualist, indeed, has been the most dangerous of tyrants, and women have been duped by ...
insert citation from Chapter 12). While Walden is even today held up as the epitome of how any individual can maintain and retain ...
movement toward womens rights. One of the most important changes with regard to the changing role of women in Taiwan is tha...