It's not that they don't qualify, it's just that they have no political clout like the 3 major ones that he listed.
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Certain kinds. Religion wasn't a big thing unified against the first wave either. In fact before the first wave most arguments FOR women's rights came from a religious perspective, Simone de Beauvoir got the idea of "biology isn't destiny" from a Calvinist preacher in the 17th century who argued that other than genitals there is no significant different between men and women, therefore women should be able to do any kind of work they are able to. And during the first wave many feminists joined progressive churches, such as the Universal Unitarians who helped feminists in their work (i.e. Lucy Stone) or the Salvation Army, which was cofounded by a woman who fought for women's right to preach and speak in public.
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Yes, it was. Especially in America. They believed that 'God' made women to have babies and take care of the home. Their 'God' didn't give women the kind of intellect that would allow them to do more than be domestic slaves(or so they believed).
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept...truewoman.html
Notice that 'ideal' number one
for women is piety. Oppression through religion by making it a woman's job to adhere stridently to religious tenants.
http://webpage.pace.edu/nreagin/temp...3/HisPage.html
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This meant that mothers also had to be religious, since religion supported the view of women as free of sexual passion and gratification. Such beliefs were required in order to properly bring up children, because “a mother who lacked religious faith could not instill sexual propriety in her daughter, and thus was unfit to be a mother at all”
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Also note in the link the story of Annie Besant in 1878 who, despite being a good mother, had custody of her daughter removed because she was an atheist, promoted sex for pleasure and birth control. Oppression through religion.
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One early twentieth century Protestant reformer wrote “If a woman becomes weary of bearing children, that matters not: let her only die from bearing, she is there to do it” (Kent 95).
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In other words, if a woman gets tired of doing what 'God' put her on earth for she's better off dead.
Some First Wave Feminists did decide to fight fire with fire and use religion to fight for feminism. That doesn't refute my statement that religion was used as a powerful means of oppression for women in the Victorian Era.
Links for my other comment about late term abortions facts:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2...you-can-help-0
http://www.livestrong.com/article/19...term-abortion/
Some states even have laws against late-term abortion
even if it saves the mother's life! That is disgusting, to me. To risk a woman's life to force her to give birth to a child who will later die itself is beyond cruel.