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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... WOMEN AND THE ISSUE OF “PROTECTION” . . . . . Women Working in America: 49 “Frailty, thy name is woman!” Working Women Go to Court: Efforts to Overcome the Mission Divine Protectionist Legislation: A Place at Work for Women and a Place ...
... WOMEN AND THE ISSUE OF “PROTECTION” . . . . . Women Working in America: 49 “Frailty, thy name is woman!” Working Women Go to Court: Efforts to Overcome the Mission Divine Protectionist Legislation: A Place at Work for Women and a Place ...
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... women were women. Biological differences between men and women have historically been read to mean that women were “dumber” and “weaker” and, thus, in need of the paternal protection of fathers, husbands, and sometimes even sons. But ...
... women were women. Biological differences between men and women have historically been read to mean that women were “dumber” and “weaker” and, thus, in need of the paternal protection of fathers, husbands, and sometimes even sons. But ...
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The Troubling History of Women's Rights in America Debran Rowland. The status of women in America remained unsettled in many areas well into the mid - twentieth century , with the exception of a few distinct areas . Among them were the ...
The Troubling History of Women's Rights in America Debran Rowland. The status of women in America remained unsettled in many areas well into the mid - twentieth century , with the exception of a few distinct areas . Among them were the ...
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... 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 believed in the unequivocal enumeration of rights? Because the rights of women are ...
... 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 believed in the unequivocal enumeration of rights? Because the rights of women are ...
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The Troubling History of Women's Rights in America Debran Rowland. intertwined historically around notions of identity and proper social roles: women bore children and took care of the family they had invented. But what if a woman did ...
The Troubling History of Women's Rights in America Debran Rowland. intertwined historically around notions of identity and proper social roles: women bore children and took care of the family they had invented. But what if a woman did ...
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.