Spotlight on Women in the 19th-Century

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Contagious Diseases Act

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

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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.

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ornamentation

Women were seen as vessels for childbearing and ________.

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English writer

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

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Salons

________ were organized gatherings in private homes.

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Susan B Anthony

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

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China

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

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Contagious Diseases Act passed in 1860

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

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Questions began to arise such as

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

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