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WERE THERE any women in 17th century England?" asks a man as he disappears into his men's club. With this anecdote, Antonia Fraser explains the purpose of her latest book. In The Weaker Vessel, Fraser uses diaries, letters and popular ballads to recreate the condition of women in British society from the reign of Queen Elizabeth to that of Queen Anne...
Frost acknowledged, though, that 17th century Dutch immigrants were "a bunch of grubby traders," while "educators were a dime a dozen in Massachusetts"--and so Harvard's informal teaching history may still predate Collegiate...
TIME MAGAZINE HAS made it official. Under the screaming headline "Canada Changes Course" the smiling visage of our new conservative Prime Minister adorns the edition of September 17th. Brian Mulroney now takes his place along with Cheryl Tiegs, various corporate worthies and innumerable portraits of Chiang Kai Sheik as Time's galaxy of cover personalities...
...fetus a person, and how do we know it? The implication, that there may be a brief period during which abortion is licit, is not new in the church, though it has been a minor refrain in Catholic theology and explicitly rejected many times by the Vatican. An influential 17th century theologian named Torreblanca taught that before the fetus is animated by the soul, a woman may have an abortion if she is in danger of death or in danger of losing her reputation. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of the medieval theologian-philosophers, had opened the same door...
Fraser thinks the 17th century woman's limited emancipation crested in midcentury, when Oliver Cromwell shook the established ways of English society. By the end of the century the punishing cycle of a woman's life and the pendulum of history had swung women's status back to just about where it was 100 years before. But in the meantime, women had talked. Women had thought for themselves. In Eraser's phrase, history held the door open briefly and, as we who read the 17th century with 20th century eyes know, nothing was ever quite...