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1) Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 implemented by British Parliament;
advocated by women's groups;
facilitated divorce
2) violence against women in Archaic subjection of women facts of life;
states buying one's wife became common;
Roman laws
3) Law of the 12 Tables Rome's first set of written laws
4) impact of Christianity on violence original sin
against women
5) time span of the witch craze 1560-1760 in Europe and American
colonies
6) number of women tortured and killed 200,000-10,000,000
as heretics and witches during the witch
craze
,7) who was accused of witchcraft during single/older women living alone;
the witch craze healers and midwives
8) last official hanging of an accused 1684
witch in England
9) last accused witch burned at the stake 1775
in Germany
10) foot-binding in China marketable for marriage; feet could
become bloody and infected
11) year foot-binding in China was 1911
outlawed
12) Sati a woman who burns herself alive next
to her deceased husband; women not
encouraged to live alone; example of
love, devotion, and loyalty to husband
13) honor killings husband could kill cheating wife;
public spectacle
14) common misogynistic practices in the foot-binding, honor killings, wife
historical persective selling, killing female infants
15) the rule of thumb in England medieval law allowed a
man to strike his wife with a stick as
long as the stick was not thicker than
his thumb
16) 1824 Mississippi Supreme Court ruling court affirmed a husband's right to
, chastise his wife; husbands could beat
their wives to death
17) states that began to go against the 1824 Alabama, Massachusetts
Mississippi Supreme Court ruling
18) year states began to go against the 1824 1870
Mississippi Supreme Court ruling
19) years feminism returns 1960s/70s
20) two branches of 60s/70s feminism National Organization for Women,
women's liberation movement
21) year and location of the first US shelter 1980; Texas
22) year and location of first state coalition 1976; Pennsylvania
against DV
23) what led to the creation of the National 1978 Commission on Civil Rights
Coalition Against DV
24) year of Family Violence Prevention 1984; first federal funding
Services Act
25) year of the first national DV hotline 1987
26) year of Violence Against Women Act 1994
27) approximate current amount of shelters, 2500
hotlines, and networks
28) domestic violence a pattern of abusing power for the
purpose of controlling an intimate
partner