The Boundaries of Her Body: The Troubling History of Women's Rights in AmericaSphinxLegal, 2004 - 788 pages Chicago-based writer, artist, and civil rights attorney Rowland covers the period from the 1600's to the early 1900s in the first section, then examines developments in the 20th century in a long second section. Final sections look at the politics of female adolescence and violence and women, mainly as contemporary issues but with some historical c |
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... Protecting Society—Guarding Sexuality Women and the Womb: The Emerging Birth Control Debate Margaret Sanger and Other Rebels: Women Who Would “Injure” Society CHAPTER 3: WORKING WOMEN AND THE ISSUE OF “PROTECTION” . . . . . Women ...
... Protecting Society—Guarding Sexuality Women and the Womb: The Emerging Birth Control Debate Margaret Sanger and Other Rebels: Women Who Would “Injure” Society CHAPTER 3: WORKING WOMEN AND THE ISSUE OF “PROTECTION” . . . . . Women ...
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... protect” women from unscrupulous employers and perhaps themselves by limiting the hours they could work. This, they argued, was for the good of mankind. Judges in the nation's courts—among them the Justices of the United States Supreme ...
... protect” women from unscrupulous employers and perhaps themselves by limiting the hours they could work. This, they argued, was for the good of mankind. Judges in the nation's courts—among them the Justices of the United States Supreme ...
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... ). The only problem was that without laws to protect them, women were routinely fired for doing “what comes naturally,” further proving to some that women had no business in the work XXVIII THE POLITICS OF BIOLOGY—THE ESSENCE OF CONTROL.
... ). The only problem was that without laws to protect them, women were routinely fired for doing “what comes naturally,” further proving to some that women had no business in the work XXVIII THE POLITICS OF BIOLOGY—THE ESSENCE OF CONTROL.
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... protect persons not able to give or refuse consent to intercourse due to their unconscious state ) ; Com- monwealth v . Berkowitz , 641 A.2d 1161 ( Pa . 1994 ) ( holding that where there is a lack of consent , but no showing of either a ...
... protect persons not able to give or refuse consent to intercourse due to their unconscious state ) ; Com- monwealth v . Berkowitz , 641 A.2d 1161 ( Pa . 1994 ) ( holding that where there is a lack of consent , but no showing of either a ...
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