mid term Flashcards
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English common law which a married women is shadowed by her husbands identity.
Femme Covert
When a woman has no political legal or religious rights due to a patriarchy system.
Civil Death
She was a witness for religious freedom and was hanged in Boston Commons in 1662
Mary Dyer
The major influence in the oppression of women throughout times
Religion
Where a famous education could make her an attractive bride.
Dame school
First woman to exercise religious freedom in America.
Anna Hutchinson
Determined the slave status at birth based on “condition of the mother”
Virgina law of 1662
The first task women preformed when landing on the shores of plymouth
laundry
Why women were considered to be limited of body and mind
The sin of eve
Three grounds or reasons for a divorce during colonial times
Adultery, extreme cruelty, desertion
She founded Mount Holyoke college for women in 1837
Mary lyon
Appealed to state legislatures for female education, opened troy female seminary in 1821
Emma willard
She applied nature vs nurture argument for female education
Judith Sargant mary
she singlehandedly spearheaded reformes for mentally ill
dorothea dix
she wrote remember the ladies letter I in 1776
Abigail adams
She was a political writer and a good friend of Abigail adams
Mercy warrens
These sisters broke the barrier of female public speaking
grimke sisters
Part of the 1964 Civil rights act that made sexual discrimination in the work force illegal
Title VII
1972 act that mandated equal facilities in federally funded education environments
Title IX
This 1969 event launched the gay liberation movement
The stonewall riots
1966 supreme court case that ruled anti-interacial marriage laws unconstitutional
loving vs virginia
Fashion designer of the mini skirt
Mary Quant
wrote sex and the single girl,she also revamped cosmopolitan magazine in 1965
Helen gurly brown
1 contributer to the sexual revolution of the 1960’s
the pill