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Women's Rights & Issues

appalachiablue

(42,908 posts) Mon Mar 22, 2021, 12:44 AM Mar 2021

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Wife Selling, Wife Auctioning, English Custom 17th -19th Centuries; Worldwide (Original Post) appalachiablue Mar 2021 OP

No wonder the oppressive treatment appalachiablue Mar 2021 #2

Absolutely! Will never give up! niyad Mar 2021 #3

(119,939 posts)

1. Thank you so much for this fascinating, depressing find. Women seen as nothing more than

Mon Mar 22, 2021, 07:44 AM

Mar 2021

property. That view has not changed much in many areas.

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2. No wonder the oppressive treatment

Mon Mar 22, 2021, 08:27 AM

Mar 2021

of women is ingrained after centuries of practices like wife selling. Even so, we must continue the fight for progress and advancement.

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3. Absolutely! Will never give up!

Mon Mar 22, 2021, 11:45 AM

Mar 2021