Women's Studies
These two institutions didn't offer degrees to women equivalent to those they gave to men until the twentieth century.
What are Oxford and Cambridge?
This is the only career open to all Elizabethan women.
What is marriage?
Queen Elizabeth never engaged in this common social practice.
This social class hired tutors to come into their homes and teach their daughters.
Women could have every ounce of their freedom taken away by this person in their lives.
What are husbands?
Queen Elizabeth lost her mother after her father committed this atrocious act.
What is beheading?
This Shakespeare play contains a considerate father who went on to get schoolmasters to educate his daughter.
What is The Taming of the Shrew?
This royal figure looked down on women and solidified the belief that they are below men.
Who is King James?
Although she was born protestant, Elizabeth was forced to convert to this religion.
What is Catholicism?
This royal female figure studied Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, Flemish, mathematics, astronomy, and history by the time she way 12.
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
This area of science insisted that women were inferior due to the theory of the four humors.
What is Biology?
This is how Elizabeth gained control over the Royal Court.
What are "feminine wiles" and "flirtatiousness"?
These skills were the staples of an Elizabethan girl's education.
Domestic skills. (i.e spinning, cooking, preserving fruits, keeping accounts, doing needlework, weaving, playing instruments)
Many believed that this was the result of a woman's personality.
What is physical appearance?
Queen Elizabeth earned this name for herself through her notorious modesty.
What is the "Virgin Queen"?