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Women in Italy: Families
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Educated women of greater familial value were therefore of greater civic value, according to civic humanism. Women in the civic schema became valuable commodities as potential brides, mothers of children, and assets to the family. Daughters were therefore educated in the humanities, this being useful to them as potential wives and mothers.
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As their revolutionary activities extended beyond the family circle, women formed national and international political networks. While before unification ties of friendship and consanguinity existed among aristocratic women from various provinces, support of the national cause, disruption of family life, and often exile created public and expressly political contacts among women of different social backgrounds. In some instances, women who had joined together for traditional wartime activities like nursing the wounded continued this connection during postwar years.
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Some Jewish women experience violence inside their own families but avoid talking about it for fear of exposing their community to criticism and condemnation. In addition, some women live within fundamentalist groups that can occur in every religion which are presently experiencing a revival that is particularly oppressive to women.
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A day later Family Minister Rosy Bindi, a prominent Catholic politician, indicated her agreement, saying that it was right to be “respectful of the veil” as long as women wore it of their own free will. Evidently, Miss Bindi thinks that the veil is a free choice, in every situation.
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He believed that women should be restricted to the care of their families since they would never be magistrates or professors of philosophy. Juan Luis Vives, tutor to Katherine of Aragon and Mary Tudor, observed that lerned women be suspected of many: as who sayth the subtylie of lernynge be a nourishment for the malitiousnes of their nature.
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