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Gender history is a sub-field of history and gender studies, which looks at the past from the perspective of gender.It is in many ways, an outgrowth of women's history.The discipline considers in what ways historical events and periodization impact women differently from men.
Over years women's centers were searched by Police as well as cars and homes of many feminists. [58] The West Berlin women's center went on a week-long hunger strike in 1973 in support of the women strike in prison and rallied repeatedly at the women's jail in Lehrter Straße. From this jail, Inge Viett escaped in 1973 and 1976.
Germany's Reichstag had 32 women deputies in 1926 (6.7% of the Reichstag), giving women representation at the national level that surpassed countries such as Great Britain (2.1% of the House of Commons) and the United States (1.1% of the House of Representatives); this climbed to 35 women deputies in the Reichstag in 1933 on the eve of the Nazi ...
[17] [18] Ava, the first German woman poet, was also the author of the first German epic and the first woman to write in a European vernacular. [19] [20] Salic (Frankish) law, which was applied in many regions, placed women at a disadvantage with regard to property and inheritance rights. Germanic widows required a male guardian to represent ...
The crimes of women in early modern Germany (Oxford University Press, 1999). Ruble, Alexandria N. Entangled Emancipation: Women’s Rights in Cold War Germany ((University of Toronto Press, 2023) online scholarly review of this book; Rupp, Leila J. Mobilizing women for war: German and American propaganda, 1939-1945 (Princeton University Press ...
Women in German Yearbook 1 (1985): 1-28. Clausen, Jeanette, and Jeannine Blackwell. “Yellowed Pages, Virtual Realities: Publication in Women in German's Past, Present, and Future.” Women in German Yearbook 20 (2004): 1-12. Joeres, Ruth-Ellen, and Marjorie Gelus. “Musing Together at Year Twenty.” Women in German Yearbook 20 (2004): 215 ...
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]
1824: "Men and Women: Brief Hypothesis Concerning the Difference in their Genius" published by John Neal [3] 1832: First speech in the US on women's rights by John Neal in Portland, Maine [4] 1854: "A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women", published by Barbara Bodichon.