1. The practice of buying one's wife be- Violence against women in the Ar-
came common chaic States
2. What earliest laws were provided with Ancient Babylonian and Mosaic
documentation that slavery, private Laws
property, and subjugation of women
were facts of life?
3. What was used by the church fathers to doctrine of the original sin
demonstrate women's inferiority and
justification for the brutalization of
women?
4. During the witch craze, the periods the extent to which the church and
from the sixteenth to the eighteenth state condoned and perpetuated
century illustrate what? the abuse, torture, and murder of
women
5. What was the result of the femicidal thousands of executions, usually
mania of the witch hunt craze that took live burnings at the stake
place from 1560 to 1760
6. how many estimated women were bru- two hundred thousand to ten mil-
tally tortured and killed as heretics and lion
witches?
7. what type of women were of the ac- typically, single women living
cused and murdered during the witch alone, older women living alone
craze? (especially widows), healers, and
midwives.
8. Many women were burned at the stake threatening their husbands, talk-
for ing back to a priest, stealing,
prostitution, adultery, bearing a
child out of wedlock, permitting
sodomy, masturbation, lesbian-
ism, child neglect, scolding and
nagging, and miscarrying
9.
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What did the Household Ordinance - When and how best to beat one's
published by the Russian Church - out- wife
line?
10. what are scolds? troublesome and angry women,
who, by their brawling and wran-
gling amongst their neighbors,
break the public peace
11. When was the Common Scold Law de- 1967 in England
clared obsolete?
12. What is "riding the stang"? Traditional community sanctions
against unacceptable levels of do-
mestic violence which included
punishments of rituals of public
shaming
13. When did footbinding begin and tenth century China
where?
14. What is the purpose of footbinding? bound feet were considered an
asset in the marriage market
- by preventing women from
moving around easily, they rein-
forced women's oppression be-
cause Chinese tradition dictated
that a woman should not appear in
public or be seen in the company
of men.
15. How early did foobinding begin for Ages five to seven
girls?
16. Sati The Indian custom of a widow vol-
untarily throwing herself on the fu-
neral pyre of her husband - which
later evolved to mean a woman
who burned herself alive along-
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side the body of her deceased
husband.
17. True or False : Sati did not make the True
woman virtuous ; it proved that she
had been virtuous all her life.
18. In what year was Sati outlawed in 1829
British India?
19. What was the first state to acknowl- Mississippi Supreme Court in
edge a husband's right to beat his 1824
wife?
20. True or False : By the 1870's, states True
began rejecting the legal justification
of wife beating
21. When and what supreme court dis- In 1874, North Carolina Supreme
avowed a husband's right to beat his Court
wife?
22. Between 1876 and 1906, what were be- bills to punish wife beaters with
ing introduced in twelve states and the the whipping posts
district of columbia?
23. True or False : Whipping-post bills True
were defeated in all states except Mary-
land in 1882, Delaware in 1901, and
Oregon in 1905.
24. What did the North Carolina Supreme the last remaining restrictions on
Court eliminate in 1890? a husband's liability and prohibit-
ed a man from committing even a
minor assault against his wife
25. True or False : By 1910, only eleven True
states still did not permit divorce by
reason of cruelty by one spouse to the
other
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