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Chapter 20
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Dr. Leete describes women's nineteenth-century subjection as a "triple yoke." What is the third and, he says, heaviest of the three?
A
Physical confinement to the home
B
Exclusion from religious worship
C
Legal inability to own any personal belongings
D
An intellectual and moral yoke: slavish conformity to conventional standards of thought and behavior, imposed to keep a woman pleasing to whatever man might support her
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