Womans Struggle For Independence

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Term Paper Title	Womans Struggle For Independence
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Woman's Struggle for Independence

Woman's Struggle for Independence

     Women have had to fight for there independence. They have been repressed
for a long period of history. Only recently have women started to gain respect
as equals and individuals. Even today women are still looked down upon for there
sex.
     From the begging of history women have been viewed as a lesser sex. In the
time Mesopotamia women we in charge of the children and the home. In Ancient
Egypt women had no power or authority. Women were viewed as property. The
Hebrews, alto respecting women, did not allow them to own any property or to
have an active place in government. In Rome women were not allowed to voice
there opinions. They were viewed as lesser beings, who's role in society was to
give birth and to take care of children. They were property of there husbands
and not viewed as individuals. There husband was there master and women we
practically slaves and was often mistreated by there husband. A servant to the
male sex.
     During the middle ages women still has almost no rights. They still didn't
have the right to voice there opinion and were still viewed as property. If they
disobeyed there male role model they were punished. The art of the Renaissance
gave women some freedom to voice there opinion about the arts and social issues
as long as there opinions weren't very radical. However women were only the
objects in the arts. They were the models and not the creators. They were not
allowed to express themselves but only to be expressed by others. This lead into
the period of the Reformation, women were still viewed as property and the
homemakers. They did not really get there place in society.
     The 17th century was the first real growth of the women's movement. Up
until this time women had been in the same category as property or slaves. But
as the French society moved toward revolution women began to speak of the
injustice against them. "The Vindication of Rights of Women (1792) called for
the extension of the principle of the liberty to women and urging that equal
public education be made available for men and women" (Perry, 289). This list of
the right that women were lacking was one of the first attempts at creating a
legislation that included women in its laws. During the scientific revolution
men were making discoveries  and coming up with new ideas all over the world.
This was not possible for women because the education was not able to compare
with that of ...

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