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New York: The first statute to criminalize abortion in the state is enacted. It made post-quickening abortions a felony and pre-quickening abortions a misdemeanor. [8] [9] 1835. Arkansas: Married women are given the right to own (but not control) property in their own name. [4]
A collaborative book by Gilligan and Richards, titled, The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future is a criticism of the ways in which patriarchy distorts the interpretation of various religions, resulting in anti-Semitism and the tension between patriarchal religion and American constitutional democracy. The book was ...
A growing body of literature illustrates that there was no substantial long-run wage for women in this time. However, the incremental gains in income and societal status that women of color made during the 1940s had long-term effects on feminist thought. By 1950, the wage gap between white and African American females narrowed by 15%. [27]
In the context of third-wave and fourth-wave feminism, the term is today often used by essayists [3] and cultural analysts [4] in reference to a movement made palatable to a general audience. [5] Mainstream feminism is often derisively referred to as "white feminism", [ 6 ] a term implying that mainstream feminists do not fight for ...
Section 4 provided for retention of American citizenship by formerly alien women who had acquired citizenship by marriage to an American after the termination of their marriages. Women residing in the US would retain their American citizenship automatically if they did not explicitly renounce; women residing abroad would have the option to ...
The Tree of Patriarchy is a metaphor used to describe the system of patriarchy. It appears in Allan G. Johnson’s The Gender Knot (1997), who borrowed the idea from R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr. (1991). The metaphor uses the parts of a tree to illustrate how patriarchy is shaped by and performs in society .
On July 10, 1971, at the founding of the National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) in Washington, D.C., NWPC co-founder Gloria Steinem delivered an Address to the Women of America. The speech furthered the ideas of the American Women's Movement , and is considered by some to be one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century. [ 1 ]
The women's liberation movement in North America was part of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and through the 1980s. Derived from the civil rights movement, student movement and anti-war movements, the Women's Liberation Movement took rhetoric from the civil rights idea of liberating victims of discrimination from oppression.