Gender, Culture, Politics - Introduction
Please submit typed answers on 2/4. Please write in complete sentences on all questions that do not require you to fill in blanks.
Summarize the distinctions between "sex" and "gender."
Who wrote the first major defense of women's rights in Anglo-American history? What was the title and date of publication?
What landmark event in women's history happened in Lowell in 1844?
The Seneca Falls Convention was held in ______.
Why did the U.S. Supreme Court deny Myra Bradwell's application for a licence to practice law?
When was the E.R.A. first proposed?
When did women obtain the right to vote in the United States?
According to Simone de Beauvoir in "Woman as Other," "Thus humanity is ______ and man defines woman not in herself but as __________; she is not regarded as an _______ ." (Fill in blanks.)
According to Betty Friedan, "By the end of the nineteen-fifties, the average marriage age of women in America dropped to ___, and was still dropping, into the teens. Fourteen million girls were engaged by ___. The proportion of women attending college in comparison with men dropped from 47 per cent in 1920 to ____________. A century earlier, women had fought for higher education; now girls went to college to get a husband. By the mid-fifties, _______ dropped out of college to marry, or because they were afraid too much education would be a marriage bar."
According to Linda Kerber, "Capitalism had the potential to enhance the position of women by loosening __________ and removing factors that shielded property from the pressures of the marketplace. The revised understanding of the relationship between women and the marketplace was embodied in the __________, devised state by state in the middle decades of the nineteenth century."
In "Feminism's Unfinished Business," Katha Pollitt writes, "More significant than these shocking anecdotes are studies suggesting that __________ of divorcing husbands use the threat of a custody fight to obtain financial concessions, and that _______ of Massachusetts judges surveyed believe that a mother should be home when school lets out, and many would shift custody to the father if she isn't.