{"product_id":"woman-church-and-state-9781880589274","title":"Woman  Church and State","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in the practice of all those nameless orgies which made a by-word of Corinth during the first century. Every evil was traced to woman. A curious old black letter volume published in London  1632  declares that \"the reason why women have no control in Parliament  why they make no laws  consent to none  abrogate none  is their original sin.\" CHAPTER IV. MARQUETTE. The minds of people having been corrupted through centuries by the doctrines of the Church in regard to woman  it became an easy step for the State to aid in her degradation. The system of feudalism arising from the theory that warfare was the normal condition of man  still oppressed woman by bringing into power a class of men accustomed to deeds of violence  who found their chief pleasure in the sufferings of others. To be a woman  appealed to no instinct of tenderness in this class. To be a woman was not to be protected unless such woman held power in her own right  or acted in place of some feudal lord. The whole body of villeins and serfs were under absolute dominion of the feudal lords. They were regarded as possessing nojrights of their own; the priests had control of their souls  the lord  of their bodies. But it was not upon the male serfs that the greatest oppres. sion Ml. Although the tillage of the soil  the care of swine and cattle was theirs  the masters claiming half or more of everything  even to one-half of the wool shorn from the flock 1 and all exactions upon them were great while their sense of security was slight  it was upon their wives and daughters that thegreatest outrages were inflicted. It was a pastime of the castle retainers to fall upon peaceful villages  to the consternation of the women  who were struck  tortured  and made the sport of ribald soldiers.2 \"Serfs of the body \" they had ...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276678979637,"sku":"ByrdShop_1880589273","price":239.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781880589274.jpg?v=1780560185","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/woman-church-and-state-9781880589274","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}