The Boundaries of Her Body: The Troubling History of Women's Rights in AmericaSphinxLegal, 2004 - 788 pagina's 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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Pagina xiv
... American Workforce . . . . . . . . . Women at Work: The Issue of the “Superwoman” is Born Women Go Home: Life after the Second World War CHAPTER 5: THE BIRTH CONTROL DEBATE BEGINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . America after ...
... American Workforce . . . . . . . . . Women at Work: The Issue of the “Superwoman” is Born Women Go Home: Life after the Second World War CHAPTER 5: THE BIRTH CONTROL DEBATE BEGINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . America after ...
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The Troubling History of Women's Rights in America Debran Rowland. cially in the early days of the American nation. The reason often advanced for these denials was that women were women. Biological differences between men and women have ...
The Troubling History of Women's Rights in America Debran Rowland. cially in the early days of the American nation. The reason often advanced for these denials was that women were women. Biological differences between men and women have ...
Pagina xxvi
... American courts began advancing these kinds of “family” privacy protections to women. But why the three-century wait? And why such clear dif- ficulty defining the rights and status of women in a land whose Founding Fathers evidently ...
... American courts began advancing these kinds of “family” privacy protections to women. But why the three-century wait? And why such clear dif- ficulty defining the rights and status of women in a land whose Founding Fathers evidently ...
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... American West , famed explorer Meriwether Lewis disapprovingly declared that the Shoshone Indians “ treat their ... American women at the hands of Native American men . But European women didn't always fair better at the hands of ...
... American West , famed explorer Meriwether Lewis disapprovingly declared that the Shoshone Indians “ treat their ... American women at the hands of Native American men . But European women didn't always fair better at the hands of ...
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The Troubling History of Women's Rights in America Debran Rowland. The birth of the American nation was tumultuous . In a distant and unset- tled land , Native Americans led raids , slaves attempted revolts , and pioneers pushed westward ...
The Troubling History of Women's Rights in America Debran Rowland. The birth of the American nation was tumultuous . In a distant and unset- tled land , Native Americans led raids , slaves attempted revolts , and pioneers pushed westward ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 54 - That woman's physical structure and the performance of maternal functions place her at a disadvantage in the struggle for subsistence is obvious.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.