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Martha Vicinus (born November 20, 1939) is an American scholar of English literature and Women's studies.She serves as the Eliza M. Mosher Distinguished University Professor of English, Women's Studies, and History at the University of Michigan. [1]
Scholarly discussions of Victorian women's sexual promiscuity was embodied in legislation (Contagious Diseases Acts) and medical discourse and institutions (London Lock Hospital and Asylum). [7] The rights and privileges of Victorian women were limited, and both single and married women had to live with heterogeneous hardships and disadvantages.
Pages in category "19th-century American women" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 306 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Catherine Murat, Princess Murat (née Catherine Daingerfield Willis). This is a non-exhaustive list of some American socialites, so called American dollar princesses, from before the Gilded Age to the end of the 20th century, who married into the European titled nobility, peerage, or royalty.
1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5] 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. [6]
American women achieved several firsts in the professions in the second half of the 1800s. In 1866, Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first American woman to receive a dentistry degree. [158] In 1878, Mary L. Page became the first woman in America to earn a degree in architecture when she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...
Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [52] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston). [53] 1905
It was normal for Native American women to have more responsibilities than men, as they were viewed as superior to men in certain ways. Powhatan women ( of Pochohontas' tribe) did not eat with the men, and the men had many wives. Most of the time the men would have to travel for food or trade, and leave the women alone for long periods of time. [3]