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Women's legal rights made slow progress throughout the 19th century. In 1859, Upper Canada passed a law allowing married women to own property. In 1885, Alberta passed a law allowing unmarried women who owned property the right to vote and hold office in school matters.
1803. United Kingdom: Lord Ellenborough's Act was enacted, making abortion after quickening a capital crime, and providing lesser penalties for the felony of abortion before quickening. [1][2] 1804. Sweden: Women are granted the permit to manufacture and sell candles. [3] France: Divorce is abolished for women in 1804.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Woman in the Nineteenth Century is a book by American journalist, editor, and women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller. Originally published in July 1843 in The Dial magazine as "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women", it was later expanded and republished in book form in 1845.
The Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) is one of the several landmark laws passed by the United States Congress outlining federal protections against the gender discrimination of women in education (educational equity). WEEA was enacted as Section 513 of P.L. 93-380.
Many women in the 19th century were involved in reform movements, particularly abolitionism. [85] In 1831, Maria W. Stewart (who was African-American) began to write essays and make speeches against slavery, promoting educational and economic self-sufficiency for African Americans. The first woman of any color to speak on political issues in ...
The New Woman was a feminist ideal that emerged in the late 19th century and had a profound influence well into the 20th century. In 1894, writer Sarah Grand (1854–1943) used the term "new woman" in an influential article to refer to independent women seeking radical change. In response the English writer Ouida (Maria Louisa Ramé) used the ...
19th-century American women. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 19th-century women of the United States. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:19th-century American people. It includes American people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
The Culture of Domesticity (often shortened to Cult of Domesticity[1]) or Cult of True Womanhood [a] is a term used by historians to describe what they consider to have been a prevailing value system among the upper and middle classes during the 19th century in the United States. [2] This value system emphasized new ideas of femininity, the ...