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Pre-Revolution Women's Roles

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Jacqueline Fortune Fortune 1
History- 2B-93810
11.24.2016

By the end of the 20th century, women’s roles across the globe had changed in profound ways. Using the documents, a) evaluate the major changes in the way that women viewed themselves and/or were viewed by men, and b)how those changes were linked to other processes of change in the world.Your essay needs to include a discussion of women on at least three different continents. Feel free to look ahead to the documents in chapter 23(all focused on women’s status in the world in the 20th century), but please make sure to also include evidence from at least TWO documents from previous chapters (13-‐‐22).

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