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The Intimately Oppressed

The Intimately Oppressed. Select Quotes from Howard Zinn. Forgotten.

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The Intimately Oppressed

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  1. The Intimately Oppressed Select Quotes from Howard Zinn

  2. Forgotten “It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders…political figures…military figures men. The very invisibility of women…is a sign of their submerged status.”

  3. “Uncivilized” “Earlier societies – In America and elsewhere – in which property was held in common and families were extensive…aunts and uncles and grandmothers and grandfathers all living together, seemed to treat women more as equals than did the white societies that later overran them, bringing “civilization”…”

  4. Sojourner Truth

  5. Women of the Mid-1800s Education Could not attend college Jobs Earned ¼ of what men earned for same job Marriage Had to assume husband’s identity No rights in divorce Government Could not vote Could not hold office Property Could not own property

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