The Boundaries of Her Body: The Troubling History of Women's Rights in AmericaSphinxLegal, 2004 - 788 pages 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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... Social leaders—also often the religious and the wealthy (few others had the status to be admitted)— became the de facto lawmakers of the young states, finding frequent rationale and resolve in the passages of the Bible. Adding to the ...
... Social leaders—also often the religious and the wealthy (few others had the status to be admitted)— became the de facto lawmakers of the young states, finding frequent rationale and resolve in the passages of the Bible. Adding to the ...
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... social roles: women bore children and took care of the family they had invented. But what if a woman did not intend to bear children? Could she still have sex? An independent female sexual identity, one devoid of maternal instincts or ...
... social roles: women bore children and took care of the family they had invented. But what if a woman did not intend to bear children? Could she still have sex? An independent female sexual identity, one devoid of maternal instincts or ...
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... social force well into modern times . And though traditionalists may be in the minority in America today in continuing to urge a literal interpretation of the stories of the Bible , the shadow of Mary continues to reach into these areas ...
... social force well into modern times . And though traditionalists may be in the minority in America today in continuing to urge a literal interpretation of the stories of the Bible , the shadow of Mary continues to reach into these areas ...
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... social , and legal efforts to pull women “ back into the fold . " " [ A ] new ide- ology of motherhood and sexuality came into existence in American history during the 1840s : the ' moral motherhood ' and ' cult of domesticity ...
... social , and legal efforts to pull women “ back into the fold . " " [ A ] new ide- ology of motherhood and sexuality came into existence in American history during the 1840s : the ' moral motherhood ' and ' cult of domesticity ...
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... social hierarchy—somewhere lower than men. Then came the Dred Scott122 decision, and everything changed. The year was 1857, and scholars admit today that the Justices of the United States Supreme Court were caught between the proverbial ...
... social hierarchy—somewhere lower than men. Then came the Dred Scott122 decision, and everything changed. The year was 1857, and scholars admit today that the Justices of the United States Supreme Court were caught between the proverbial ...
Table des matières
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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Page 101 - Yet the marital couple is not an independent entity with a mind and heart of its own, but an association of two individuals each with a separate intellectual and emotional makeup. // the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.
Page 26 - But while he thought on these things, behold the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife : for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
Page 176 - Columbia, such person shall be restored to such position or to a position of like seniority, status, and pay ; (B) if such position was in the employ of a private employer, such employer shall restore such person to such position or to a position of like seniority, status, and pay unless the employer's circumstances have so changed as to make it impossible or unreasonable to do so...
Page 54 - That woman's physical structure and the performance of maternal functions place her at a disadvantage in the struggle for subsistence is obvious.
Page 172 - It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin...
Page 169 - It is a familiar rule, that a thing may be within the letter of the statute and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers.
Page 243 - employer" means a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has fifteen or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, and any agent of such a person, but such term does not include (1) the United States, a corporation wholly owned by the Government of the United States, an Indian tribe, or...
Page 172 - ... (2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees or applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Page 55 - The limitations which this statute places upon her contractual powers, upon her right to agree with her employer as to the time she shall labor, are not imposed solely for her benefit, but also largely for the benefit of all.
Page 23 - Man is, or should be, woman's protector and defender. The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life. The constitution of the family organization, which is founded in the divine ordinance, as well as in the nature of things, indicates the domestic sphere as that which properly belongs to the domain and functions of womanhood.