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Internet Exerices1. Visit the eHRAF, the Web version of the Human Relations Area Files, at http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/e/ehrafe/. Go to Browse, and locate the OCM subject codes for "gender status" and "franchise" and do a search of the database using those codes. Read three of the articles, each about a different group, which you find as a result of this search.
- Briefly describe the contents of each article.
- What do the three cases have in common?
- What differences are there between the three cases?
- To what do you attribute the differences you found?
2. Visit http://www.elizabethi.org/uk/women/ and read about the lives of women in Elizabethan England. Compare the lives of women in this society ruled by a Queen to the lives of women of the same period in Ivan the Terrible's Russia, as described at http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h20-rus.htm- What similarities do you find?
- What differences?
- In your opinion, what is the impact of the gender of a ruler on the gender roles of commoners in these examples?
- If you were a woman in that period, which country would you prefer to live in?
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