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Lotsa Women
Women's Studies Quiz 2
| Name | Info |
|---|---|
| Rachel Carson | 1907 Author of "Silent Spring" which inspired grassroots environmental movement in U.S. and led to banning of D.D.T. |
| Rebecca Lee Crumpler | 1831 First A.A. woman to become physician in U.S. One of first A.A. to write book about medicine |
| Marie Curie | 1867 French physicist-first woman to receive Nobel Prize for physics in 1903. Only woman to win Nobel Prize in 2 fields and only person to win in multiple sciences (Physics and Chemistry). Researched radioactivity |
| Isadora Duncan | 1877 American dancer, developed new dance style that focused on natural movements, preferred dancing in free-blowing tunics & developed style that led to modern dance. |
| Marian Anderson | 1897 A.A. woman who, w/help of FDR and his wife, was first woman of color to sing before integrated crowd at metropolitan opera. Participated in Civil Rights Movement |
| Susan B. Anthony | 1820 Dedicated suffragette and abolitionist. Created & produced The Revolution, weekly publication that lobbied for women's rights. 1869 Anthony & Stanton founded The National Woman Suffrage Association. Voted illegally in 1872 but never paid $100 fine. |
| Clara Barton | 1821 Nurse during Civil War Founded American Red Cross Association in 1881 |
| Amy Beach | 1867 First successful American Female composer of large scale art music |
| Kathryn Bigelow | 1951 Movie director. First woman to win academy award for Best Director w/The Hurt Locker |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | 1821 First woman to graduate from medical school in U.S. Created medical schools for women in late 1860s. |
| Geraldine Ferraro | 1935 First woman to chair her party's 1984 platform First female vice presidential nominee |
| Alice Guy-Blache | 1873 Early French Filmmaker First woman to direct a motion picture |
| Hildegard Von Bingen | 1898 Monastic leader, author, and composer German philosopher, mystic, visionary Composed Ordo Virtutum & some say it is oldest surviving morality play |
| Mae Jemison | 1956 First A.A. woman err admitted to astronaut training program Flew into space w/6 other crew members on Endeavor |
| Barbara Jordan | 1936 First A.A. elected to Texas Senate First southern black woman elected to U.S. House of Rep. Civil Rights Movement |
| Wilma Mankiller | 1945 First female chief of Cherokee Nation (1985-95) |
| Married Women's Property Acts | Passed in Mississippi 1839. Law suit ended w/wife keeping rights to her property & eventually the creation of act. 1870, changed way women controlled property after husband's death. |
| Married Women's Property Acts 2 | After passed, women could be legally independent & responsible for children. Allowed women to keep property they earned before marriage. |
| Fanny Mandelssohn | 1805 Composed over 460 pieces of music One of few well-known 19th century women composers |
| Toni Morrison | 1931 American novelist, editor, professor Won Pulitzer Prize for novel Beloved Won Nobel Prize for literature in 1993; first A.A. to do so. |
| Carry Nation | 1846 Major & radical player in the temperance movement. Would vandalize saloons (known for using hatchet) |
| Mary Frances Winston Newson | 1869 First American woman to earn PhD in Mathematics |
| Alice Paul | 1855 American suffragist & women's rights activist-helped pass 19th Amen. Organized Women's suffrage parade on eve of President Wilson's inauguration Co-founder of National Women's Party-Led political protest @ white house Author of Equal Rights 1923 |
| Janet Reno | 1938 First woman to serve as U.S. attorney general |
| Ellen Shallow Richards | 1842 Helped create field of economics First woman admitted to M.I.T./teacher at M.I.T. First woman accepted to any science school First American woman to receive degree in chemistry |
| Seneca Falls Convention | 1848 A women's rights convention held July 19-20 Made Declaration of Sentiments: All men and women created equal. |
| Bessie Smith | 1894 Nicknamed the Empress of Blues Most popular Blues female singer between 1920-1930 |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | 1815 Organized Seneca Falls convention in 1848 Active in emancipating slaves Founded National Woman Suffrage Association w/Susan B. Anthony in 1869 |
| Lucy Stone | 1818 Abolitionist & women's rights activist First Massachusetts woman to earn college degree 1869 started American Woman Suffrage Assoc. and later joined w/Stanton Kept maiden name after marrying |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1811 Abolitionist & author Uncle Tom's Cabin-depicted lives of A.A. under slavery Legend has it that Abe Lincoln called her "the little woman who wrote that book that started this great war…" |
| Sojourner Truth | 1787 A.A. abolitionist and woman's rights activist First black woman to win over case against white man Gave speech "Ain't I a Woman" at women's rights convention in Ohio |
| Ida B. Wells | 1862 A.A. woman who was anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, women's rights advocate, journalist, and speaker. Part of Famous March (1913) for universal suffrage in Washington, D.C. |
| Edith Wharton | 1864 American author First woman to win Pulitzer Prize for fiction. |
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