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  2. Women during the Reconstruction era - Wikipedia

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    Women during the Reconstruction era following the US Civil War, from 1863 to 1877, acted as the heads of their households due to the involvement of men in the war, and presided over their farm and family members throughout the country. Following the war, there was a great surge for education among women and to coincide with this, a great need ...

  3. Gender issues in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front (2009) excerpt and text search; Giesberg, Judith, and Randall M. Miller, eds. Women and the American Civil War: North-South Counterpoints (2018) Goldstein, Joshua S. (2003). War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521 ...

  4. Mary Livermore - Wikipedia

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    After the war, Livermore devoted herself to the promotion of women's suffrage (along with Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe) and the temperance movement. In 1868, she co-founded the Chicago Sorosis Club with Myra Bradwell and Kate Doggett. [16] This was the first women's group in Chicago to advocate for woman suffrage.

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

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    By the end of the Civil War, 29 states had passed some version of a Married Women's Property Act. [15] As the U.S. Congress considered legislation to protect the civil rights of African-Americans that became the Civil Rights Act of 1866, opponents of the legislation charged that it would alter the legal status of married women. Senator Edgar ...

  6. Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US - AOL

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    1994 – The Violence Against Women Act funds services for victims of rape and domestic violence and allows women to seek civil rights remedies for gender-related crimes. Six years later, the ...

  7. Women's Loyal National League - Wikipedia

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    Before the Civil War the women's rights movement had only a few state associations and no national organization other than an informal coordinating committee that organized annual national conventions. [35]) Its petition drive marked a continuation of the shift of women's activism from moral suasion to political action. [36]

  8. Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Eleventh National Women's Rights Convention, the first since the Civil War, was held in 1866, helping the women's rights movement regain the momentum it had lost during the war. [86] The convention voted to transform itself into the American Equal Rights Association (AERA), whose purpose was to campaign for the equal rights of all citizens ...

  9. Women speak of shocking sexual violence amid Sudan's raging ...

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    Sudanese women tell Human Rights Watch that RSF paramilitaries, one side in a grueling civil war, are subjecting them to horrific sexual violence.