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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I am pretty sure there have been feminists long before Ireland entered the medieval period. I am sure they didn't see themselves as having the same rights, but I am equally sure that many women thought they should have those rights, just as today there are still many women who believe that women should not have any rights.
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No one makes rules for something no one does. In the past, women who thought they ought to have these same rights tended to be presented as "shrews". I think it would be really anachronistic to portray all the women as accepted their allotted role in life without question.