Spotlight on Women in the 19th-Century

Contagious Diseases Act

________ passed in 1860- aimed at prostitues, not men, who werent even seen as responsible.

Chinese emperors

As a mother or adoptive mother of two ________, she (Cixi) acted as regent before they were of age and continued to wield large influence over China after they formally assumed power.

ornamentation

Women were seen as vessels for childbearing and ________.

English writer

She was a(n) ________ who advocated for women's equality.

Salons

________ were organized gatherings in private homes.

Susan B Anthony

________ fought for abolition, suffrage for women, and the temperance movement, which fought for the prohibition of alcohol.

China

She saw the Boxer rebellion as a way of forcing foreign powers out of ________ and strengthening her own regime.

Contagious Diseases Act passed in 1860

aimed at prostitues, not men, who werent even seen as responsible

Questions began to arise such as

"If all men are born free and equal, what makes women exempt?"