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Ticket applications for the Nov. 17th football game against Yale are due in the Ticket Office in Harvard Hall by 5 p.m. today. Tickets are $7 with a student coupon. Accompanying seats are available from...
...many others, Fraser indicates how the established church reinforced the image of women as morally and physically inferior. For example, women's prayers often included "Grandmother Eve," from whom all women were said to have inherited the original sin. Yet much of Fraser's book reveals how the 17th century was a time of change, even for women in the most static of institutions...
...also a warning that, as in the England of Elizabeth I, "it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again." This statement is made parenthetically, but it stands as the central motif of the book. As in 17th-century England, there are more women than men among the poor in America today. Women may have come a long way, but the legacy of the weaker vessel lives...
...interested in "the woman as heroine." While researching her book on Cromwell, Fraser came across women "who weren't stay-at-home types." Her title is ironic because "the women were admirable and spirited; they beat the system with their gallantry and guts." Unfortunately, the 17th century also marks the beginning of the "rise of the idea of a lady as someone who doesn't do any work...
...problem of high illiteracy among women in the 17th century concerns Fraser for another reason. "Like everyone interested in women's rights or progress, I believe that education is the key." Although her success as writer and historian no doubt owes much to her own education, she does not consider herself the "exception." She advises women to pursue their goals: "If you want to write, or be a journeyman, don't let anything change your mind. It's true that women need more will to overcome certain obstacles, which is unfair. But a writer, or anyone else...