Western Civilization I / Unit 18 WC1 1730 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Join: Women's Standing Across Six Periods
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The idea
Egyptian women nearly men's legal equals; Athenian women legal minors; Hellenistic women holding property; medieval widows as vassals; the plague's century of wider rights; Christine de Pizan's argument that education, not nature, made the difference.
In practice
Entries 0110, 0304, 0416, 1027, 1110 and 1220.
Where people slip
The line is not upward. Athens was worse than Egypt; the anchor says so.
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