ICDVP Exam
1. The practice of buying one's wife be- Violence against women in the Archaic States
came common
2. What earliest laws were provided with Ancient Babylonian and Mosaic Laws
documentation that slavery, private
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 state con-
from the sixteenth to the eighteenth doned and perpetuated the abuse, torture, and
century illustrate what? murder of women
5. What was the result of the femicidal thousands of executions, usually live burnings at
mania of the witch hunt craze that took the stake
place from 1560 to 1760
6. how many estimated women were bru- two hundred thousand to ten million
tally tortured and killed as heretics and
witches?
7. what type of women were of the ac- typically, single women living alone, older
cused and murdered during the witch women living alone (especially widows), healers,
craze? and midwives.
8. Many women were burned at the stake threatening their husbands, talking back to a
for priest, stealing, prostitution, adultery, bearing a
child out of wedlock, permitting sodomy, mas-
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turbation, lesbianism, child neglect, scolding
and nagging, and miscarrying
9. What did the Household Ordinance - When and how best to beat one's wife
published by the Russian Church - out-
line?
10. what are scolds? troublesome and angry women, who, by their
brawling and wrangling amongst their neigh-
bors, 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 unac-
ceptable levels of domestic violence which in-
cluded 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 reinforced women's
oppression because 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 voluntarily throw-
ing herself on the funeral pyre of her husband
- which later evolved to mean a woman who
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burned herself alive alongside 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 1824
edge a husband's right to beat his wife?
20. True or False : By the 1870's, states be- True
gan rejecting the legal justification of
wife beating
21. When and what supreme court dis- In 1874, North Carolina Supreme Court
avowed a husband's right to beat his
wife?
22. Between 1876 and 1906, what were be- bills to punish wife beaters with the whipping
ing introduced in twelve states and the posts
district of columbia?
23. True or False : Whipping-post bills were True
defeated in all states except Maryland
in 1882, Delaware in 1901, and Oregon
in 1905.
24. What did the North Carolina Supreme the last remaining restrictions on a husband's
Court eliminate in 1890? liability and prohibited a man from committing
even a minor assault against his wife
1. The practice of buying one's wife be- Violence against women in the Archaic States
came common
2. What earliest laws were provided with Ancient Babylonian and Mosaic Laws
documentation that slavery, private
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 state con-
from the sixteenth to the eighteenth doned and perpetuated the abuse, torture, and
century illustrate what? murder of women
5. What was the result of the femicidal thousands of executions, usually live burnings at
mania of the witch hunt craze that took the stake
place from 1560 to 1760
6. how many estimated women were bru- two hundred thousand to ten million
tally tortured and killed as heretics and
witches?
7. what type of women were of the ac- typically, single women living alone, older
cused and murdered during the witch women living alone (especially widows), healers,
craze? and midwives.
8. Many women were burned at the stake threatening their husbands, talking back to a
for priest, stealing, prostitution, adultery, bearing a
child out of wedlock, permitting sodomy, mas-
, ICDVP Exam
turbation, lesbianism, child neglect, scolding
and nagging, and miscarrying
9. What did the Household Ordinance - When and how best to beat one's wife
published by the Russian Church - out-
line?
10. what are scolds? troublesome and angry women, who, by their
brawling and wrangling amongst their neigh-
bors, 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 unac-
ceptable levels of domestic violence which in-
cluded 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 reinforced women's
oppression because 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 voluntarily throw-
ing herself on the funeral pyre of her husband
- which later evolved to mean a woman who
, ICDVP Exam
burned herself alive alongside 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 1824
edge a husband's right to beat his wife?
20. True or False : By the 1870's, states be- True
gan rejecting the legal justification of
wife beating
21. When and what supreme court dis- In 1874, North Carolina Supreme Court
avowed a husband's right to beat his
wife?
22. Between 1876 and 1906, what were be- bills to punish wife beaters with the whipping
ing introduced in twelve states and the posts
district of columbia?
23. True or False : Whipping-post bills were True
defeated in all states except Maryland
in 1882, Delaware in 1901, and Oregon
in 1905.
24. What did the North Carolina Supreme the last remaining restrictions on a husband's
Court eliminate in 1890? liability and prohibited a man from committing
even a minor assault against his wife
