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Role of Women

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Role of Women Americas Africa Europe West Asia South Asia Southeast Asia East Asia 3500 ? 500 BCE Ancient Egypt: Female pharaohs. 500 BCE ? 500 CE Classical Rome: Emperor?s wives can suggest things, women controlled household property. Tribal Arabia: Some rights; women can trade. Hinduism & Caste: rights based on husband/father?s occupation. Confucianism (Qin/Han China): patriarchal, filial piety, elders > youth. 500 CE ? 1700 Post- Classical Aztec and Inca: patriarchal, mother?s of warriors have rights, women can sell things. Tribal (Things Fall Apart): polygamy, cook. After Islamic conversion: wore ?nude? clothes, can converse in public. Fedual: Upper-class men chivalrous; peasant women worked at farm, can only marry w/ lord?s consent.

Woman Timeline

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Woman Timeline The Renaissance The perfect court lady should we well educated and charming, but not fame-seekers. (The Courtier, Baldassare Castiglione) Christine de Pizan- Europe?s first feminist. Isabella d?Este-her life as patron of the arts shows the most socially acceptable role for a well-educated Renaissance woman. The Reformation Martin Luther believed that Christian women should strive to be models of obedience and Christian charity. Because of the reduction of the access to convents, women were forced to seek changes in their roles. Quakers regularly allowed women to preach. Witchcraft was often associated with older, widowed women. The Enlightenment Madame Geoffrin- most influential salon hostesses.

The Effects of Industrialization and Urbanization on Women in North America

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13/01/11 12:21 AM Industrialization First occurred in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Occurred in Canada in the 1850?s, accelerating in the 1870?s and 1880?s Very ragged and uneven process Included A shift from making products in the home or in small workshops to making them in factories A move from making things by hand to the use of machines to assist in the production of goods The subdivision of formerly skilled labour in which a product which had once been made by one worker with all the skills necessary to make the entire product was now being made by many workers, each with very limited skills, doing only one piece of the job- such as sewing buttons or ironing a finished garment

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13/01/11 12:21 AM Industrialization First occurred in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Occurred in Canada in the 1850?s, accelerating in the 1870?s and 1880?s Very ragged and uneven process Included A shift from making products in the home or in small workshops to making them in factories A move from making things by hand to the use of machines to assist in the production of goods The subdivision of formerly skilled labour in which a product which had once been made by one worker with all the skills necessary to make the entire product was now being made by many workers, each with very limited skills, doing only one piece of the job- such as sewing buttons or ironing a finished garment
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