HOW DO YOU KEEP FIT?

Tomorrow is National Women’s Health and Fitness Day.

It is the “9th annual event to promote the value of health and fitness for women of all ages,” according to answers.com If you are not doing anything on a regular basis, maybe it’s the opportunity to start.

http://www.examiner.com/healthy-living-in-richmond/national-womens-health-and-fitness-day-is-september-29-2010

BALANCE IN MARRIAGE Part 2

In the 19th century, there was a full spectrum of marriages from ones where the wives were literally servants, needing to account for every minute of their time and little more than sexual slaves, to husbands like Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s who were loving and supportive, a real partner to thei...r wives in every sense of the word.The suffragists, who knew they were fortunate in their lives, were fighting for the improvement of the lives of the “marriage slaves” or others only slightly better off. They were fighting for the right of women to make decisions about their own lives, not just the right to vote.

BALANCE IN MARRIAGE Part 1

In the 19th century, there was lots of tension and even fear among both men and women over the idea of changing the balance between men's and women's roles in marriage. Men feared the loss of control over their households and thus their lives. Women feared the freedom and thus the loss of structure, routine and ultimately security that might come with change.
So it was that women fighting for women's rights found themselves fighting against women as well as men. Perhaps some saw their less than equal lives as the price they had to pay for security and the right to be able to bring up their own children. It was not a legal foregone conclusion that their mother should care for them. Men had all the rights and final say over their children's lives and how they were raised. At the time there were cases of men, who could afford child care arrangements, throwing out their wives and preventing her children from seeing her ever again.