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  2. Boston marriage - Wikipedia

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    Katharine Coman and Katharine Lee Bates lived together in a Wellesley marriage for 25 years. Boston marriages were so common at Wellesley College in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that the term Wellesley marriage became a popular description. [7]: 185 Typically, the relationship involved two academic women. This was common from about ...

  3. Western European marriage pattern - Wikipedia

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    In addition, there was a sharp rise in the percentage of women who remained unmarried and thus decreased fertility; an Englishwoman marrying at the average age of 26 years in the late 17th century who survived her childbearing years would bear an average of 5.03 children while an Englishwoman making a comparable marriage in the early 19th ...

  4. Married Women's Property Acts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Three states gave married women no legal status until late in the nineteenth century: Delaware, South Carolina, and Virginia. [21] Even where statutes appeared to establish some measure of rights for a married woman, courts interpreted statutes to her disadvantage and relied on common law whenever a statute was less than explicit.

  5. History of eugenics - Wikipedia

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    The terms evolution and progress were in fact often used interchangeably in the 19th century. [ 31 ] The rapid industrial, political and economic progress in 19th-century Europe and North America was, however, paralleled by a sustained discussion about increasing rates of crime, insanity, vagrancy, prostitution, and so forth.

  6. History of biology - Wikipedia

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    The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.

  7. Women in modern pre-Second Republic Spain - Wikipedia

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    The nineteenth century saw for the first time the emergence of a true middle class in Spain. This precipitated internal questioning among the Spanish elite about social inequalities that had existed in Spain since the founding of the modern Spanish state when Isabella of Castille married Ferdinand of Aragon, solidifying Spanish territory under ...

  8. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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    Fauziya Kasinga, a 19-year-old member of the Tchamba-Kunsuntu tribe of Togo, is granted asylum in 1996 after leaving an arranged marriage to escape female genital mutilation, setting a precedent in U.S. immigration law as it was the first time the practice was accepted as a form of persecution. [316]

  9. Marriage - Wikipedia

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    Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children (if any), and between them and their in-laws. [1]