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STUVIA 2024/2025WGS 201 Midterm
- New York city @ a bar called Stonewall Inn - Triggered activist protests among gays and lesbians -
police raided gay bar - people fought back - became symbol of oppression of gays, began the gay
pride movement - ✔✔Stonewall Riot
-abolition movement
-temperance movement - ✔✔Most early women's rights activity had its roots in what social
movement? (2)
-Equal Pay Act of 1963: equal pay for equal work
-Title IX (1972): equal education and forbade gender discrimination
-Roe v. Wade - ✔✔1960s & 70s Legal Changes Associated with the Women's Movement
-expectation that child will marry a person of the opposite sex.
-sex ed that mainly discusses heterosexual relationships. - ✔✔Examples of Compulsory
Heterosexuality
-Feminists are angry -- have an axe to grind.
-Feminists hate men or want to be like men.
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-Feminists are lesbians.
-Feminists reject motherhood.
-Feminism is a white, middle-class movement. - ✔✔Myths associated with feminism
-Picketing the White House.
-Hunger Strikes
-Parades
-Lobbying Congress
-Media advocacy - ✔✔What were the major tactics and strategies that suffragettes used in the
campaign for suffrage?
-Suffrage is not a right
-Women belong at home
-Women cannot emotionally handle voting
-Women have husbands who speak for them
-Women will want to become men if they vote - ✔✔Arguments against women's suffrage
-The Enlightenment (Scientific revolution, backlash against the Church)
-Natural Law (all humans)
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-American Revolution - ✔✔What were the circumstances that led to the emergence of the women's
suffrage movement?
-women have the ability to reason, deserve equal voice (Locke)
-women have equal humanity on grounds of reason and justice (de Condorat)
-already allowed to vote in some states and other countries. - ✔✔Arguments in favor of women's
suffrage
'subjective understanding' of ourself.
idea/beliefs about sexual aspects of the self. - ✔✔Sexual Self-Schemas
"A Vindication of the Rights of Women" (1792)
-argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be because they lack education.
-both men and women should be treated as rational beings. - ✔✔Mary Wollstonecraft
"Covered Women"
law doctrine of coverture--husband and wife were one person under the law, she was his property.
-she could not seek employment w/out his permission.
-she could not keep wages, own property, or sue.
-she could not exercise control over children or her reproductive life.
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-rape did not exist within a marriage. - ✔✔Femme Couverte
(1996) Defines marriage as man-woman. No state is forced to recognize same-sex marriage. -
✔✔Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
(Stanton) "Declaration of Sentiments & Grievances" - ✔✔Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
1. "concerns equality and justice"
2. Celebration of femininity and accomplishments. - ✔✔2 Critical Aspects of Any Definition of
Feminism
1. Come out to self (self identify as LGBTQ)
2. Come out to friends, family, world - ✔✔2 Steps in the Coming Out Process
1. Creating gender inequality
2. Distribute privilege and resources differently.
3. Support gender inequality - ✔✔How do societal institutions support systems of privilege and
inequality?
1. free abortions
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