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2007-06-14 04:57:08 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science Gender Studies

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Where do you want to start? You are born of Woman. Therefore Your 'History' starts with Your Mother. Is She not First on Your list?
("Mother") Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke
Dorothea Dix
Susan B. Anthony
Sacagewea
Clara Barton
Aurelia
Germaine Greer
Mary Seacole
Vivian Bulwinkle
Hariet Tubman
Florence Nightingale
Helen Keller
Joan for Arc
Mary Ann Stafford
Elizabeth Kenny
Elenor Roosevelt
Mary Wollstonecraft
Kate Millet
Mother Teresa
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Mary (The Mother Of Jesus)
Etc., etc., etc., and of course etc.
And these are just some of the Women that I, as a Man, respect, and, for want of space, must highlight.
Rather than pick My brains, look to Your own initiatives.
Believe it or not, Women are 'movers and shakers in Their Own right !

Isn't it funny that I gave You Your first star for this question?

2007-06-14 05:39:52 · answer #1 · answered by Ashleigh 7 · 0 0

Kathleen Norris - There are men I could spend an eternity with but not in this life,
Virginia Woolf - Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time.
Sylvia Plath - I am going to start seeing a woman doctor, free on the National Health, to whom I've been refered by my very good local doctor which should help me weather this difficult time. Give my love to all.
Mary Blandy - Gentlemen, don't hang me too high for sake of decency... I'm afraid I shall fall.
Lady Mary Wortly Montagu - It's all been very interesting.
Amelia Earhart - Please know that I'm quite awear of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it.
Emily Dickinson - I must go in, the fog is rising.
Marie Antoinette - Fairwell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.
Marie Louise of France - I will not sleep; I wish to meet death wide awake.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Beautiful!

2007-06-17 17:51:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

in evaluation to the USA of a, Europeans went by royal families which women people performed a considered necessary place in society. French Queen Catherine DeMedici, English Queens Elizabeth II and Victoria ruled the rustic on a similar time as in this united states of america women people interior the nineteenth Century have been for the main section the better halves of farmers.

2016-10-17 06:07:00 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Women gave birth to most of the guys who made history except Julies Ceaser, whose mother was cut open (ceasarian) to bring him to this world.

2007-06-14 05:06:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 2

Here's some info of their roles in the US:

"During Colonial times, and up until the 1800s, the legal concept was that status-wise, yes, women were property. And in some ways, they were property in the same sense as those who were slaves, but in others, it was a more complicated status. The principle, called coverture, was that, since a marriage makes a husband and wife into one person, the wife – already considered an inferior being – basically ceased to exist as a separate individual, even in a legal context. Therefore, the wife had no legal rights – because how can a person who doesn't exist have rights or do anything? Of course, they don't have rights at all. They can't do anything. Trust us: it made sense at time.

Anyway, so coverture meant that women had no rights. And by that, we mean that it went far beyond women not having the vote. A husband would get to make all the decisions for her. She could not own land. She could not keep salary she earned. If her husband died, she did not get to decide who got custody of her children. Anything that she owned prior to marriage – from property ownership to inheritance – instantly become her husband's once the vows were said. All of that was under the control of her husband. In exchange for all of these rights, and with the understanding that she could no longer do anything for herself, the husband would be responsible for provide his wife and their children with “necessities” (or he could pay someone else to provide them, if doing it himself proved too inconvenient). He would provide for them in the same way he did any of his other possessions. If he was a particularly good guy, the husband would include the wife in his will, leaving her what was known as "a dower," – approximately 1/3 of his land to live on if she outlived him. He had to do that, because she wouldn't automatically inherit any of it – so she and the children could have been kicked out of her own home at his death. 1.

In the mid-1800s, within the larger women’s rights/suffragette movement, women began to demand rights until, on a state by state basis, laws known as the Married Women’s Property Acts began to be passed. (Similar movements were also going on in the U.K. at this time as well.) Gradually, women were being given rights to hold property, make contracts, keep the salary she earned, etc. 2.

The MWPA’s and achievement of women's suffrage did not resolve, however, other social/legal manifestations of women’s status. You could still legally discriminate for jobs, salary, etc. It wasn’t until Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that job discrimination and other related forms of gender-based discrimination were outlawed. Defining what that law meant took years. 3.

Many other societal/legal barriers existed. It wasn’t until the 1970s and 1980s that these other manifestations began to be challenged (e.g. different rates for government benefits, state child support statutes had different cut-offs for boys (21 years) than girls (18), to different gender/age drinking laws, to of course, job discrimination in hiring, hours, and wages).

Traditionally, the law considered that marriage meant a woman had given her husband irrevocable consent to sex. Men could have sex with their wives any time they wished – since she was "his" (they wisely used Biblical quotes, instead of saying property), she couldn't object. She had no legal right to say "Not tonight, Honey," whether it was for a headache or anything else. There was no such thing as rape within a marriage. (Or spousal abuse, for that matter) Under the coverture logic, you and your wife are a single individual, and you can't rape yourself. If women were seen as property, men had the right to do what they wanted with their property – including beat and rape it. (And in fact, back in the day, it used to be that rape by someone other than a spouse was not a crime against the wife, herself, but was actually a crime against the husband – i.e. the property owner.). Any way you looked at it, women had no recourse. 4.

And lest you think that that is just as far in our past as coverture, think again. The first U.S. marital rape laws weren't passed until the 1970s. It wasn't until July 1993 that marital rape became a crime in all 50 states – and over 30 of them have exceptions that allow for nonconsensual sex in particular circumstances (e.g. if she's incapable of consent because she's unconscious). 5.

Even in 2000s, some states are still trying to sort out things like a husband’s liability to his wife for a tortious injury (like a car accident) or joint liability for contracts (e.g. where he is liable for both of their contracts automatically but she may not be). 6. "

2007-06-14 05:31:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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