Sexuality And Subordination: Interdisciplinary Studies Of Gender In The Nineteenth Century

Since the beginning of times, the female and male genres have been treated differently, with distinct roles that each one must follow, and this was a reality in all peoples across the world, for many centuries. This designation has made thousands of women have their rights and desires pruned by the social conventions, needing to hide in the shadows and the margins of society. Only in the 20th century, they began to gain more equality and the right to work, to vote, to have formal education, to marital freedom and to the decision of having children. In the century 15th, women were prior traded as commodities between families through dowries, in which fathers and husbands appropriated their bodies and their lives, without giving them the least possibility of leading their personal wishes. …show more content…
According to Susan Mendus and Jane Rendall in Sexuality and Subordination: Interdisciplinary Studies of Gender in the Nineteenth Century (1989), “For them, a family life which constrained women into beings incapable of general views, and prevented young women from any acquaintance with the opposite sex, mistook the function of the