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The U.S. women’s rights movement first emerged in the 1830s, when the ideological impact of the Revolution and the Second Great Awakening combined with a rising middle class and increasing education to enable small numbers of women, encouraged by a few sympathetic men, to formulate a critique of women’s oppression in early 19th-century America.
- Women and Religion in Colonial North America and the United States
Despite affirming the spiritual equality of women, major...
- Women, Race, and the Law in Early America | Oxford Research ...
Summary. Everywhere across European and Indigenous...
- Women and Religion in Colonial North America and the United States
Despite affirming the spiritual equality of women, major world religions like Christianity and Islam have debated over whether women should be given the same rights and opportunities as men, especially the power to serve as religious leaders. The history of women’s leadership in America is a history of both transformation and resistance.
Summary. Everywhere across European and Indigenous settlements in 17th- and 18th-century North America and the Caribbean, the law or legal practices shaped women’s status and conditioned their dependency, regardless of race, age, marital status, or place of birth.
The approximately 60,000 women who emigrated from England to the colonies between 1630 and 1700 left behind the benefits of a complex but comprehensive system of English law that protected and served their needs with a level of sophisti-cation that the American courts lacked.
In 1930 Richard B. Morris published Studies in the History of American Law: With Special Reference to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The monograph included a chapter on the legal status of colonial women that became extremely influential within a short time of its appearance.
Women in Early America, edited by Thomas A. Foster, tells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the ...
22 mar 1998 · Carol Berkin's new book, First Generations: Women in Colonial America, is a significant addition to the literature of early American women's history.
