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PBHS Feminists
Feminists
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |