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Primary Source: Ottomon Empire Who: Lady Montagu |
Year: 1718 What: Lady Montagu had dinner with the Sultana and was amazed at the vast displays of wealth. She noted the Sultana spoiled her slaves and treated them better than her own daughters. |
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Primary Source: Protestant Reformation Who: von Grumbach |
Year: 1523 What: vo Grumbach wrote a letter protesting the treatment of women in the church and quotes Scripture emphasizing community to argue why women should have roles in the church. It is notable that she signed her maiden and married name, signifying that she was unafraid of the consequences. |
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Atlantic System What: Casta Paintings |
Year: 1780-1790s What: The Casta paintings show a variety in skin tones and give hints to what the race system in the Atlantic system was like. Typically, lighter skinned people were higher up in social and economic status. |
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Atlantic systems Who: de Erauso |
Year: 1600s What: de Erauso ran away from her life in the convent to live as a man. She traveled all over Portugal and fit into gender expectations of men at the time, being extremely macho and prone to fights. When she was arrested, she put up a fight and then confessed to a priest of her journeys. It is interesting to note that 1) she refused to be educated when her bosses offered, most likely because it reminded her too much of the convent and 2) had to be examined to make sure she was a virgin |
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Mary Prince |
Year: late 1700s-early 1800s What: A slave woman in the Caribbean who after a series of abusive owners, moved to England with the Wood family where slavery was illegal and left them. She dictated her story to Susanna Strickland and Thomas Pringle who published it as abolitionist propaganda. |
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Industrialization Who: Harriet Robinson, Lowell Mill Girls |
Year: 1830s--1840s What: Lowell Mill Girls were one of the first factory workers. They worked long hours for 8-10 months for little pay and often sent the money back home to support their brothers. However, this gave them respect. The girls ranged from ages 10 to 25. They sometimes did strikes to fight for better conditions. |
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18th century activism Who: de Gouges |
Year: 1791 What: de Gouges wrote a response to the French "Declaration of the Rights of Man". She argued that women should be allowed to keep their wealth, unmarried women should be able claim the father's wealth for their children, women be allow to divorce their husbands. |
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19th century actvism Who: Wollstonecraft |
Year: 1792 Title: A Vindication fo the Rights of Women What: Manifesto arguing for education for women |
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19th Century Activism Who: Seneca Falls |
Year: 1848 Title: Declarations of Sentiments What: Manifesto arguing for equal economic, educational, and social rights for women including the right to vote. |
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Imperialism Who: British family with servants, Punch cartoon "In the Rubber Coils" |
Year: 1900s What: British family--Indian women raised the British children, separate from family. Cartoon showed violence of Queen Elizabeth's imperialism, women fleeing inbackground |
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women in Fascist Italy |
Year: 1940s What: Cartoon with wedding rings depicted how women couldn't even keep their own rings, not really theirs. Had to devote husband and selves to government; no private life. Knitting: domesticity for good of state. |
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Albanian women as men |
What: Women live as sworn virgins when no male in household. Do not marry or engage in sexual relationships but treated like men. Surprisingly, some lament equal rights in present. |
