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WGST 200
Women Gender Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Published in England "A Vindication of the rights of women" in 1972. She urged a national system of free coeducational day schools where girls and boys would have healthy outdoor exercise to build their bodies, minds, and vocational training. | Mary Wollstoncraft |
| "People Call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute" | Rebecca West |
| "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; among these are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness." | Thomas Jefferson |
| "I gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face...We must do things we cannot do." | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Grew up in South Carolina with a father who was a judge and prosperous slaveowner, but she was appalled by what she saw of slavery. She moved North, becoming a Quaker and one of the first female abolitionist speaker in NY state. | Sarah Grimke |
| Came to US for 2nd time in 1824 and bought 2,000 acres in Memphis where started a "utopian" colony called Nashoba where she wanted to prepare slaves to live free. | Frances Wright |
| Ran her father's SC plantation as a young woman; she managed to grow indigo locally and extract dye from it. Indigo became the leading industry in the South in middle of 18th century. | Eliza Lucas Pinckney |
| "Aint I a woman" speech | Sojouner Truth |
| 1905, fifteen years prior to woman achieving the right to vote, one year before her death, she said, "Failure is Impossible" | Susan B Anthony |
| Daughter of Mary Wollstoncraft and her husband William Godwin, she became author of "frankenstein" | Mary Shelley |
| Quaker minister with 6 children who organized first Women's antislavery Society in Philadelphia. | Lucrecia Mott |
| "Injustic anywhere is a threat to Justic everywhere" | Martin Luther King Jr |
| Wrote to her husband, "in the code of new laws...I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable than your ancestors." | Abigail Adams |
| Described ideal feminine image in 17th century as, " the gentle, patient, unassuming, all enduring wife and mother, having no strong feelings or needs of her own..masking any emotions, intelligence, knowledge, and talents she has. | Mary Astell |
| had a Ph.D in Political Science and two law degrees, founded National Woman's Party, and picketed White house for 19th Amendment. | Alice Paul |
| Elected as first female member of U.S. Congress in 1917. | Jeanette Rankin |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered this famous speech and possibly "best" speech at the NAtional American Women's suffrage Association. | The Solitude of Self |
| She cared for 7 children who survived of 9. Night before one child was born she milked 8 cows. | Hannah Stone |
| She introduced Susan Anthony to Elizabeth Stanton in 1851, the ladies were wearing strange outfits. | Amelia Bloomer |
| She was called Napoleon of Woman's Rights Movement. | Susan B Anthony |
| First state to give women right to vote in 1893 | Colorado |
| Amendment debated after civil war, with a split in Women's Right advocates. | 15th Amendment |
| She graduated from Oberlin College and was first woman ordained as a minister in the US. She got her degree 58 years after she qualified for it. | Antionette Brown. |
| She attended Oberlin College, and was the first Massachusetts women to earn a B.A. degree, married Henry Blackwell, and wrote, "Women's Journal" | Lucy Stone |
| Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony spent many years writing this book. They wanted to document what had happened to themselves. | History of Women's Suffrage |
| Elizabeth Stnaton wrote this in 1895. It said that men and women are equal. National American Women's Suffrage totally rejected the book and her. | The Women's Bible |
| He published the book, "On Subjection of Women" to complement Elizabeth Stantons feelings on the position of women. | John Stuart mill |
| John Stuart Mills Wife: | Harriet Taylor |
| She is known as most learned woman in the US, held meetings called "Conversations" for educated women of Boston when she was only 29. | Margaret Fuller |
| He was congressperson from Virginia who added the word "sex" to Title VII. | Howard Smith |
| Refused to give up her seat on a bus. | Rosa parks |
| Two stewardesses who sued American Airlines for discriminatory practices involving age and marital status in 1965 and won. | Dusty Roads & Nancy Collins |
| This is the Administrative arm of Title VII, minorities can file claims with this agency if they believed they were discriminated against in the work place. | EEOC |
| Middle Class women, married with children, were reporting symptoms of depression such as unexplained fatigue and absence of hope for the future. Called the "problem with no name" in this book. | The Feminine Mystique |
| Ancient Greek Philosopher said, " The female is a female by virtue of a lack of certain qualities- we should regard female nature as afflicted with a natural defectiveness." | Aristotle |
| National Organization for Women was formed in 1966 by several state commissioners and this woman. | Betty Friedman |
| This group started "consciousness raising" for a protest against the Miss America Pageant. | New York Radical Women |
| Congressperson from Michigan, who persuaded Congressional leaders to leave the word "sex" in Title VII which helped to support equality for women in the workplace. | Martha Griffiths |
| This president establish the commission on the Status of women. | JFK |
| This president signed executive order in 1965 & 67 requiring companies doing business with the federal government to take affirmative action in hiring minorities and men. | Lyndon Johnson |
| Author of the book in which he says men are viewed as, "One" and women as "Other"... Men are subjects of their lives and women are actors. | Simone de Beauvoir |
| Employee of Southern Bell who wanted be a lines person. | Loreen Weeks. |
| Goals of this organization included eradication or race and poverty, more student control in colleges and universities, withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam-but didn't like recognition of oppression of women. | SNCC |
| Betty Freidman attacked this person saying, " Girls and women do feel inadequate, but not because of a missing penis." | Sigmund Freud |
| Purpose of organization is , " to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American Society now, exercising all the priveleges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men." | NOW |
| In 200 how many women describe themselves as feminists | 1/3 |
| At the anti-slavery convention in london these two women met for the first time. | Lucrecia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton |
| In seneca falls these two women formed a 50 year relationship as two most important leaders of first wave of AMerican Women's Rights Movement. | ECS and Susan B Anthongy |
| Abolitionists and feminist women speaking to mixed gender audience were consider ______________. Women speaking publicy to such group were view as downright ________________. | Immoral. |
| In ____________, ___________, unlike sex, is viewed as socially constructed which means that is the result of political arrangements and is amendable to social and political analysis. | feminist theory, gender |
| According to ____________, we cannot universalize the female experience because of the national and cultural differences throughout the world. | Estelle Freedman. |
| Amelia bloomer, a_________ activist, wrote about the bloomer fashion in her publication, ________, and the apparel was named after her. | temperance, The Lily |
| In 1920 in Tennesee, youngest member of legislature, _________, voted for 19th amendment to break the tie and give women the right to vote. it was decided by ___ vote(s) | Harry Burn, one |
| in 1911, 146 workers, mostly women, died in the ______________ fire tragedy because they were locked inside. | Triangle Shirtwaist Company |
| _________ was strongly opposed to women's right, but she was happy to benefit from Dr. James Simpson's use of chloroform to ease the pain of birth. | Queen Victoria |
| _____________ was the president of NAWSA during 1900-1904 and 1915-1920, she lated formed the league of woman voters. | Carrie Chapman Catt |
| In 1896___________ founded the National Assocation of Colored women to fight for the right of black women. Terrell worked for 20 years and represented ________ African American Women in 18 federations, and 1,000 clubs. | Mary Church Terrell, 50,000 |
| "Race and sex are inseparable" | Sojourner Truth |
| In 1954 ge U.S. supreme court in ________________________ decides that unequal facilities impede equal opportunity; thus integration of schools was mandated. | Brown v. Board of Education. |
| In 1880's, __________________, a Memphis newspaper editor and ex-slave, was run out of town because she tried to expose trumped up rape charges to justify the lynching of innocent black males by white mobs. | Ida B. Wells |
| This book was published by the President's commission on the status of women. In congress, there were only 2 men in senate and only 11 females in the House of Representatives. | "American Woman" |
| _______________________ founded by Ella Baker to pretest civil rights violations- young black and white men and woman, including college students, helped in citizenship education and voter registration drives in the South. | Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee |
| This Act was passed and offered Pre an Postnatal care for pregnant women and their infants-Within the next year or two, the Congress removed funding for this act, reflecting the beginning of a backlash. | Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infant Protection Act |
| This organization provided a training ground for young second-wave feminists--how to get organized, a set of metaphors, "woman as minority," and a talent for mobilizing media attention | New Student Left organizations |
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