How did Social Movements in Europe between 1648 and 1948 Foster Discriminaotry Values?
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Modern Europe
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Irish Catholic Oppression
The Penal Laws were a series of statutes enacted by the monarchs of Britain from the late 17th to mid-18th century in an effort to suppress Catholicism and promote Anglicanism in Ireland. The laws instated far-reaching social and religious bans upon Catholics from preventing their worship to barring them from working in high-ranking professions. -
Sientific Racism
Systema Naturae is a 1735 Enlightenment work of taxonomy by Swedish Carl Linnaeus that categorizes the human species into four groups; distinguishable by generalized physical and mental characteristics. The Enlightenment ideas of classification put the European species at the top of the hierarchy. -
Oppressive Gender Roles
The Debutante is an 1807 Romantic era watercolour and graphite sketch by Swiss Henri Fuseli commenting upon the ridgid constricting social roles of women in Europe. Depicited is a young women sewing who is leashed to the wall under the supervision two older women. It is to be noted that Henri Fuseli also often explored sexual themes in his art, of which can also be noted here. -
Overdiagnosis of Female Mental Illness
The Physiognomy of Mental Illness is an 1840 health publication by Scottish physician Alexander Morison documenting a variety of the doctor's personal case studies pertaining to mental illness. In particular, he studies a condition mostly suffered by females, known as "Erotomania", in which a female lacks sexual decency or falls in love with a man of the clergy. His treatments for this ailment range from frequent cold baths to the removal of the labia minora. -
Expusion of Mennonites from Russia
Arrival of Mennonite Emigrants is a sketch drawing taken from the March 20th, 1875 issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, an american newspaper that published articles and illistrations documenting the immigration of Mennonites to the United States. The Mennonites were expelled from Russia after a rise of nationalism known as Slavophilia called for the end of their special prvillieges and exemptions afforded to them under Russian rule. -
The Holocaust
Published in the Netherlands in June 1947, The Diary of a Young Girl is a compilation of a Jewish Holocaust victim's diary entries starting before Nazi internment to her eventual death as a result of starvation in a Nazi concentration camp. The first-hand account provides primary source incite into the systematic extermination of the Jewish people by the German Nazis.
