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| What is the Difference between an Extended Family and a Nuclear Family? |
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Extended families are large and include grandparents, adult spouses and their children, and grandchildren all living and working together.
Nuclear families are smaller and consist of parents and their children. |
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| What Event in the 17th Century Indicated Tensions over Gender Issues? |
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| How did the Enlightenment change the economic role of women? |
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| Women were offered few economic oppourtunities and many laws were in placed that made hard on them financially. |
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| What kind of educatoin did women receive during the Enlightenment? |
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| Educational oppourtunites were only open to middle and upper class women. |
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| What was the most common use of a women's dowry during the Enlightenment? |
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| Dowries were used to get married. |
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| There is a controversy over the perception of the women who led the salons. What is the view of those criticizing the salons? |
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| Those opposing the salons believed that the salonnieres turned their backs on their families and children and did nothing of importance in the salons. |
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| Olympe de Gouge was a French women who wrote for the equal rights of both genders. Mme de Gouge was eventually beheaded for her beliefs. |
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| Describe the Parisian Salon of the 17th Century |
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| These salons were serious and regular. Intellectuals gathered to discuss the latest ideas. |
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| Accordingto Mary Wollstonecraft, what was the key to women's self respect? |
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| Mary Wollstonecraft is described as a radical. What is the meaning of the word in this cotext? |
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| She desired to bridge the gap between mankind's present circumstances and ultimate perfection. |
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