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PBHS Feminists
Feminists
Question | Answer |
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British; "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" 1792 | Mary Wollstonecraft |
Mother of Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft |
Quaker who helped found Swarthmore College | Lucretia Mott |
Excluded and segregated men at World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 | Lucretia Mott |
Mentor of Stanton | Lucretia Mott |
First President of American Equal Rights Assoc. | Lucretia Mott |
Born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree in Dutch-speaking New York | Sojourner Truth |
Changed her name when converted to Methodism telling friends the spirit called her | Sojourner Truth |
At 1851 Ohio Women's Rights Convention declared she had "as much muscle as any man" in speech, "Ain't I a Woman?" | Sojourner Truth |
"On Liberty" | John Stuart Mill |
"Utilitarianism" | John Stuart Mill |
co-authored (debated) "The Subjugation of Women" with wife Harriet Taylor | John Stuart Mill |
"Declaration of Sentiments" presented at first women's rights conference at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal" (in the Declaration of Sentiments) | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Collaborator with Susan B. Anthony | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Co-founders of the first women's temperance society in 1850s | Stanton and Anthony |
journal co-founded by Stanton and Anthony | "The Revolution" |
She was arrested and convicted for voting in a presidential election | Susan B. Anthony |
Defended her right to vote in the Presidential election using the 14th Amendment | Anthony |
Co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Assoc. | Stanton and Anthony |
Most outspoken and most famous proponent of women's suffrage in U.S. | Susan B. Anthony |
Most prominent women's suffragist in UK | Emmeline Pankhurst |
hunger strikes in jail led to Cat and Mouse Act (release and re-arrest after regaining health) | Emmeline Pankhurst |
Her persistence caused Parliament to begin granting voting rights to women in 1918 | Emmeline Pankhurst |
Founded American Birth Control League | Margaret Sanger |
American Birth Control League evolved into this | Planned Parenthood |
gave up nursing in New York City when patient died of self-induced abortion | Margaret Sanger |
"What Every Mother Should Know" and "What Every Girl Should Know" | Margaret Sanger |
Challenged the Comstock Law about "obscene texts" (education about contraception)through "The Woman Rebel" | Margaret Sanger |
A lover of Jean-Paul Sartre | Simone de Beauvoir |
"One is not born a woman, but becomes one." | Simone de Beauvoir |
Author of "The Feminine Mystique" | Betty Friedan |
One of the founders of NOW; Smith College graduate who advocated education and seeking work outside the home | Betty Friedan |
Journalist and editor and founder of Ms. magazine | Gloria Steinem |
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle" | Gloria Steinem |
undercover Playboy Bunny; advocate of abortion rights--had, had an abortion | Gloria Steinem |
She died when she ran in front of King George V's horse at the Epsom Derby with a "Votes for Women" banner to protest arrest of Pankhurst | Emily Davison |
"A woman's place is in the House-House of Representatives" | Bella Abzug |
First black female presidential candidate for major party 1972 (Congresswoman from New York) | Shirley Chisholm |
First female elected to both houses and FIRST major party presidential nominee | Margaret Chase Smith |
Testified about sexual harassment at Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings | Anita Hill |
Attacked "Rokeby Venus" also known as "the Toilet of Venus" by Velazquez with meat cleaver | Mary Richardson |