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Sexual Timeline copywrite 2006 - 2/8/2006 4:57:03 AM

candystripper

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Sexual Timeline

 1662 -- Quakers formed in England. US Quakers make significant contributions to abolition and suffrage movements.

 1760 to 1820 – beginning of Industrial Revolution. Prior to this period, birth control methods were condoms, douches and certain herbs.

 1790 -- New Jersey grants the vote “to all free inhabitants”.

 1807 – NJ women lose the vote.

 1838 – Publication of books in opposition to slavery and in support of suffrage.

 1839 – invention of rubber vulcanization. Birth control methods included rubber condoms, IUDs, vaginal sponges, diaphragms and cervical caps. 1930 to 1960, these methods were declared illegal.

 1848 – suffrage convention is Seneca Falls, NY publishes “Declaration of Sentiments”

 1850 -- 1st Women’s Rights Convention held at Worchester, Massachusetts.

 1852 -- ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published.

 1854 -- Massachusetts grants property rights to women.

 1861 – 1865. The Civil War.

 1865 – adoption of the 13th Amendment, prohibiting slavery.

 1866 -- Merger of abolition and suffrage movements.

 1867 – women lose suffrage in Washington and Utah by action of the Supreme Court.

 1868 -- 14th Amendment adopted. Due process and equal protection.

 1869 – territory of Wyoming grants women suffrage.

 1870 – 15th Amendment adopted. Right to vote regardless of sex, color or creed. Woman are continued to be denied the vote.

 1870 – territory of Utah grants women suffrage.

 1873 – Comstock Law declares birth control illegal.

 1883 – territory of Washington grants women suffrage.

 1893 – state of Colorado grants women suffrage.

 1900’s – women’s movement endorses contraception.

 1909 – 20,000 women unionists strike garment industry; unionists merge with suffragists.

 1910 – territory of Washington grants women full enfranchisement.

 1911 – California grants women suffrage.

 1912 – territory/state of Alaska and Kansas grant women suffrage.

 1914 – Nevada & Montana enfranchise women.

 1917 to 1918 -- WW I

 1918 – Condoms become legal.

 1917 -- state of New York enfranchises women.

 1919 – Michigan, Oklahoma and South Dakota grant women suffrage.

 1919 – 18th Amendment adopted; Prohibition.

 1920 – 19th Amendment adopted, granting women suffrage in the US.

 1930 to 1960 -- Birth control methods included rubber condoms, IUDs, vaginal sponges, diaphragms and cervical caps. From 1930 to 1960, these methods were declared illegal.

 1933 – adoption of 21st Amendment; Repeal of Prohibition.

 1960 era – Rhythm Method misconstrues a woman’s fertility, and fails as birth control.

 1960 – approval of first birth control pill.

 1970 – approval of Dalkon Shield IUD.

 1973 – decision of Roe v. Wade, approving abortion as legal.

 1975 – recall of Dalkon Shield due to pregnancy-related deaths.

candystripper