Were+there+common+patterns+in+the+new+opportunities+available+to+and+constraints+placed+on+elite+women?+in+this+period?



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 * New Opportunities Available To and Constraints Placed on Elite Women

 
 * ~  ||~ Europe ||~ Islam ||~ India ||~  China  ||
 * = **Social Equality ** ||=  strict and patriarchal social divisions ||= equal in religion; forced to sit seperate from men in mosque ||=  strict patriarchal caste system ||=  strict Confucian guidelines for "virtuous" behavior ||
 * = **Inheritance/Marriage ** ||=  could inherit land; property belonged to husband ||=  received half inheritance of male children ||= women married off very young ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> access to dowries and owned businesses ||
 * = **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Legal Rights ** ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">could bring a court case; no participation in decision ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">testimony had less weight than a male's  ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">widows would burn themselves in the flames where their husbands were being cremated ; aka //sati// ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">widow remained with son; no property if she remarried  ||
 * = **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Labor ** ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">division of labor; women in textiles ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">no women in labor ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> family textile labor ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> silk weaving  ||
 * = **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Marital Behavior/Marriage ** ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Christian monogamy ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> concubines and seclusion in harems ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">marriage limited to caste members ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">  concubines and seclusion in harems   ||
 * = **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Education ** ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">education limited to upper class males ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">literate society ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> education limited  ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">literate society; education limited to men  ||
 * = <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Physical Restrictions** ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> veiling of upper class ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> veiling in public ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> veiling or seclusion (purdah) ||= <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">foot-binding ||



__SOURCES:__ Princeton Review (2008 Edition) Pages 164-165