Feminism: A Graphic Guide

. Even if some women were able to receive a higher education, they were not allowed to receive the degree for which they studied. In marriage, the woman’s body belonged to her husband, who was also the only legal guardian of the children.

Women had no formal rights and were not represented in the law.

Early Modern Feminist Activity

“WOMAN IS AN IMPERFECT MAN.” THOMAS AQUINAS (1225–74)
“FRAILTY, THY NAME IS WOMAN!”

In private, essentialist ideas were translated into rules of conduct for the woman as wife, mother and daughter. In public, it was believed that women’s participation should be limited

mainly emotional, compassionate and nurturing creatures.

Essentialism sees men as able to think logically, abstractly and analytically, while women are

women’s and men’s differences are a result of biology

that “women were women by virtue of a certain lack of qualities

Patriarchy is an ideology that is manifested in practice by the subordination of the interests of women