
On Women: Feminism
Stone Choir
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The History of Western Feminism
In the salons of France in the 17th and 18th century, women became a type of participant in public life. When that model was adopted by the English, on both sides of the Atlantic, it became much more egalitarian. But as we look downstream from those first events, we can see that as women began to engage in civic life,. I'm just going to tear down this fence here," she says.
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