Womens Studies Midterm

Front 1

The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was written in the style of what document?

Back 1

The Declaration of Independence

Front 2

The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions states ___ & ___ are created equal.

Back 2

Men, Women

Front 3

What document, written in 1848, marks the start of feminism in the United States, setting the tone for feminism's future?

Back 3

The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

Front 4

The feminist movement is broken into segments called what?

Back 4

Waves

Front 5

___ brought a shift toward conservatism in the United States' 1840s, oppressing women to the point of starting feminism.

Back 5

2nd Great Awakening

Front 6

What feminist legislation, first proposed in 1923, failed to pass in both the 1920s and 1980s, and has yet to pass to this day?

Back 6

Equal rights amendment

Front 7

Which wave of feminism sought property, education, and voting rights?

Back 7

1st Wave

Front 8

Which wave of feminism sought wage equality and reproductive rights?

Back 8

2nd Wave

Front 9

Who is famous for writing "Feminine Mystique", the National Organization for Women's Bill of Rights, and the Equal Rights Amendment?

Back 9

Betty Friedan

Front 10

Who is credited with helping start the first discussions on contraception access, as well as forming organizations that would become today's Planned Parenthood?

Back 10

Margaret Sanger

Front 11

What document first expressed the gender wage gap, reproductive rights, and fear of the word "feminist"?

Back 11

The National Organization for Women's Bill of Rights or NOW Bill of Rights

Front 12

The NOW began in what wave of feminism?

Back 12

2nd Wave

Front 13

Ain't I A Woman was a speech by what early feminist?

Back 13

Sojourner Truth

Front 14

Understood, but unspoken expectation and regulations based on a person's perceived gender are called what?

Back 14

Gender Roles

Front 15

According to the "Cult of True Womanhood," women are "meant" to be what?

Back 15

Pious, Gentle, Sweet, Caring, Loving, Innocent

Front 16

The use of one's own or another's personal experiences within writing is called what?

Back 16

Ethnography

Front 17

The feminist method of gathering groups of people to discuss and expose issues of identity politics is called what?

Back 17

Consciousness Raising

Front 18

A Black Feminist Statement (1977) was the first organized movement that addressed ___ within feminism.

Back 18

Race

Front 19

A Black Feminist Statement originated in which feminist wave?

Back 19

2nd Wave

Front 20

Complete the phrase. "The personal is ___."

Back 20

Political

Front 21

"Womanism" Speaks mainly to what feminist coalition?

Back 21

Black Feminism

Front 22

What is the division of feminists based on identity categories called?

Back 22

Separatism

Front 23

Which feminist wave focused on LGBT rights, universalism, social justice, and praxis?

Back 23

3rd Wave

Front 24

Many notable feminists, including Rebecca Walker, have written for what magazine?

Back 24

Ms. Magazine

Front 25

"Sex-positive" and "sex-negative" debated often centered on women's roles in ___.

Back 25

Pornography

Front 26

"Anger turned to action" describes which feminist wave?

Back 26

3rd Wave

Front 27

What is one's prescribed identity feature, given by a medical professional at the moment of birth, based on the visual appearance of genitalia?

Back 27

Sex

Front 28

What is the culturally constructed notion of identity that is meant to mirror one's assigned biological sex?

Back 28

Gender

Front 29

While today's society attempts to place identity features in ___ systems, feminists argue that identities are ___.

Back 29

Binary, Intersectional

Front 30

Gender can be best understood as ___ ___, rather than an innate sense of being.

Back 30

Actively performed

Front 31

The Other Body, written by Ynestra King, opens the feminist discussion of what?

Back 31

Ability

Front 32

Disable people trouble the binary system by living somewhere between ___ and ___, causing feelings of discomfort and fear.

Back 32

Life, Death

Front 33

As Peggy McIntosh states, privilege is invisible to those that have it. What exactly do they have?

Back 33

Dominance

Front 34

The Ways in which identity features, oppressions, and systems operate together within and around one's body and society can be understood using ___.

Back 34

Intersectionality

Front 35

The "myth of ___" goes along with fantasized notions of the "respectable poor," as stated by Dorothy Allison's A Question of Class.

Back 35

Meritocracy

Front 36

X: A Fabulous Child's Story exposes how ___ and ___ ___ should have their importance reconsidered in order to achieve true equality.

Back 36

Gender, Gender roles

Front 37

While ___ means someone is born "between" or "both" biological sexes, ___ ___ is the refusal to conform to the binary system of gender.

Back 37

Intersex, Gender queers

Front 38

If a woman is promiscuous, society labels her a "slut," but if she refrains from sexual activity she is called a "prude." This facet of oppression is known as what?

Back 38

Double Bind

Front 39

The word "oppressions" is often overused and misunderstood. What is oppression?

Back 39

Oppression is the inequitable use of authority, law, or physical force to prevent others from being free or equal

Front 40

According to Suzanne Pharr, the weapons of sexism are ___, ___, and ___, which aid in cementing the systems of power that oppress "others," and uplift the "norm."

Back 40

Homophobia, economics, violence