Women context

Question 1

Margaret Sanger

Answer 1

Campaigned for birth control in the progressive era, opening the first birth clinic in 1916

Question 2

The married women’s property act

Answer 2

Began to be rolled out across individual states in 1839
1887: 1/3 states had not provided staturatory protection for married women to control earnings

Question 3

Muller v Oregon 1908

Answer 3

Restricted the working hours of women
During Gilded age three US states rganted married women the right to control earnings

Question 4

Cult of domesticity

Answer 4

Providing value system among the upper and middle class
Emphasised new ideas of femininity, the woman’s role within the home and dynamics of work and family

4 cardinal virtues:

• Piety
• Purity
• Domesticity
• Submissiveness

Question 5

Coverture

Answer 5

Married women’s legal existence was conserdered to be merged with that of her husband
No independent legal existence of her own