Think As Historian: THINK AS A HISTORIAN: SITUATE A HISTORICAL PROCESS IN CONTEXT

Throughout this book you have read about the ways in which the roles and status of women have developed in specific contexts: Confucian attitudes toward women in China (Topic 1.1), the states of different classes of women within the Ottoman Empire (Topic 4.7), the push for suffrage in the context of Enlightenment ideals (Topic 5.1).

Explain the process of change in women’s status and roles in the context of industrialization and urbanization in the period 1750–1900.