The Boundaries of Her Body: The Troubling History of Women's Rights in AmericaSphinxLegal, 2004 - 788 Chicago-based writer, artist, and civil rights attorney Rowland covers the period from the 1600's to the early 1900s in the first section, then examines developments in the 20th century in a long second section. Final sections look at the politics of female adolescence and violence and women, mainly as contemporary issues but with some historical c |
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... began to take shape. To be sure,women fought back in favor of birth control,though generally in smaller numbers and with little clear success. Contraceptives would save lives, early advocates argued.No,no,it would take lives,opponents ...
... began to take shape. To be sure,women fought back in favor of birth control,though generally in smaller numbers and with little clear success. Contraceptives would save lives, early advocates argued.No,no,it would take lives,opponents ...
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... began openly opposing traditional Catholic doctrine, defying Church directives, scoffing at the pageantry of its ceremonies, and refusing to pay Church-levied taxes.The Cathars—or the Albigenses—as the people of this movement were known ...
... began openly opposing traditional Catholic doctrine, defying Church directives, scoffing at the pageantry of its ceremonies, and refusing to pay Church-levied taxes.The Cathars—or the Albigenses—as the people of this movement were known ...
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... began replacing the family “as the important legal and economic unit” and serf labor pushed women out of the workforce,a catalog of “disabilities”has been assigned women.78“With this loss of status, women became valued solely for their ...
... began replacing the family “as the important legal and economic unit” and serf labor pushed women out of the workforce,a catalog of “disabilities”has been assigned women.78“With this loss of status, women became valued solely for their ...
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... began laying the ground work for a “successful society” of their own, they did so often by adopting the kind of hierarchical rules that had worked so well in Europe, (i.e., the submission of women to the will of husbands, fathers, and ...
... began laying the ground work for a “successful society” of their own, they did so often by adopting the kind of hierarchical rules that had worked so well in Europe, (i.e., the submission of women to the will of husbands, fathers, and ...
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... began and ended with a bang.According to Chief Justice Taney, he and his brethren were of the mind that neither slaves nor free blacks were “citizens”under the Constitution.Once that had been established,the Justices moved directly to ...
... began and ended with a bang.According to Chief Justice Taney, he and his brethren were of the mind that neither slaves nor free blacks were “citizens”under the Constitution.Once that had been established,the Justices moved directly to ...
Spis treści
Twentieth Century Developments | 65 |
The Politics of Female Adolescence | 509 |
Violence and Women | 591 |
Epilogue | 751 |
Index | 759 |
About the Author | 789 |
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