First wave feminism - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

PSYC 345 Final Exam - Questions and Answers (Complete Solutions) Sexism is a bias based on the belief that men are superior to women, and it is more difficult to see in today's society. Androcentric thinking refers to _______ ways of thinking. male-centered According to the American Psychological Association (APA), sex refers to _______ and gender refers to _______. biology and anatomy; attitudes and roles associated with biological sex Davenport (2016) examined whether socioeconomic status, ...

TEST BANK FOR THE WORLD OF PSYCHOLOGY, 8TH CANADIAN EDITION, SAMUEL E. WOOD, ELLEN GREEN WOOD, DENISE BOYD, EILEEN WOOD, SERGE DESMARAIS Chapter 1: Introduction Test Bank Multiple Choice 1. The term “gender” refers to ______. A. the culturally imposed roles of males and females B. the state of being male, female, both male and female, or neither male nor female C. social construction D. biological aspects of masculinity and femininity Ans: B Learning Objec...

Briefly outline the 4 waves of feminism - First wave (1850s-1940s): focused on legal and political rights of women, mostly famously via the suffragette movement, culminated in equal suffrage (1928). Second Wave (1960s-80s): focused on the different roles that society expected of men and women. Concepts of patriarchy, sex v. Gender and the personal is the political. Third wave feminism (1990s): concerned with intersectionality, feminism thus far had focused solely on white middle class women...

Gender Arrangements  :-- the ways society creates, patterns, and rewards our understandings of femininity and masculinity Androcentrism  :-- A confusion of maleness with humanity, putting men at the center and relegating women to outsiders in society; traditional notions regarding men as "humans" and women and other marginalized people as "others." First-wave Feminism  :-- Mid-nineteenth century period of social activism that sought women's rights and suffrage (voting)...

Liberal feminism - -Early first wave feminism (in 19th and early 20th century) was deeply influenced by liberal ideas in general, and Mary Wollstonecraft in particular. With her view being that both men and women are rational and women acting 'childish' in her society was the effect of social expectation placed on to them. -Liberals were the first to offer equal rights to women -Many second wave feminists (1960-70) took their inspiration from liberal ideas. Perhaps the most famous is Bet...

Transformations: Women, Gender and Psychology, 3e (Crawford) Chapter 1 Paving the Way 1) Psychologists began to realize that most psychological knowledge about women and gender was ________. A) created by men B) anti-woman C) male-centered D) misogynistic 2) In the mid-1800s in the U.S., a First Wave feminist movement emerged. It reached its peak with the ________, then lost momentum in the ________. A) Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848; 1920s after women won the vote B) Rochester D...

Test Bank Women’s Health Care in Advanced Practice Nursing 2nd EditionTable of Contents Chapter 1 Women and Their Health ............................................................................................... 2 Chapter 2 Women as Health Care Providers ................................................................................. 6 Chapter 3 Women and Health Care ............................................................................................... 9 Chapter 4 Health Care fo...

PAC Quiz 9-12 In his speech, Reagan argues that expanding government programs will do little to address problems like poverty. - True Libertarians believe that government is good. - False Rothbard, in For a New Liberty, thinks taxation is not morally different from private theft. - True Ronald Reagan was a democrat before switching to the Republican party. - True Wilson, as seen in Constitutional Government in America, believed that a changing society, world, and economy requir...

Liberal feminist wave advocating for equal education, the right to vote, better working conditions, etc. 'There is no female mind' -What was First Wave Feminism? Liberal feminist wave with some radical and socialist feminism. More based around need to destroy patriarchy to obtain equality with some advocating a cultural revolution -What was Second Wave Feminism? Expanded on radical feminism seeing institutions as further entrenching the patriarchy -What was Third Wave feminism? Based on...

Origins and developments -- Feminist ideas can be traced back to the ancient civilisations of Greece and China - Christine De Pisan's Book of the City of Ladies published in Italy (1405) foreshadowed many ideas of modern feminism such as advocating women's rights to education - The first text of modern feminism is Mary Wollstonecraft's the Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) - By the mid 19th C the women's movement acquired a central focus which was the right to vote Origins and...