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New Woman

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the 1890s integrated Victorial values with activism; larger life public figure, sense of self and gender, middle class, town or city dweller, better educated than average, more likely o be single than any other group of women

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woman question

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should a woman attend a college and risk losing her mind and feminine identity issue

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voluntary motherhood

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women had more control over their sexual lves therefore having children

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Jane Addams

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reformer during progressive era; single wome; agot a Nobel peace prize; founded Hulll House

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Hull House

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settlement house for educate women who could make a tangible social contribution by brining the urban poor and foreign-born in contact with the best in American life

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Boston marriages

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two women who set up house keeping together

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Oberlin

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first college of higher education to allow females and blacks; followed the ladies course, received special degrees, and entered men's classes with speciial permission

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Vassar

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first well-endowed strongly academic women's college capable of undertaking an acdemic education as stringent as for elite men without ruining their health

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Sex in Education

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written by Dr. Edward Clarke; higher education caused health problems

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Dr. Edward Clarke

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wrote Sex in Education about how higher education caused health probelms

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Mary Baker Eddy

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founder of Christian science; well-off women folwwers acepted female virtues

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Christian science

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founded by mary Baker Eddy and based on the teaching and healings of Jesus

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Frances Willard

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temperance leader and founder of WCTU

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Women's Christian Temperance Union

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leader Frances Willard; single goal a plan for reforming the human race and male half of it; strove to end the production sale and consumption of alcohol and to attain state temperance laws

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sorosis

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first professional women's clu established by journalists and other career women in New York for female sex to be helpful to each other acively beneveloent; Jane Crooly

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Women's Club Movement

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allowed middle class women to enter public life without abandoning domestic values and without adopting hte aggressive stance associated with either the temperance crusade or the politicized women suffrage movement

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Ida B. Wells

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anti-lynching campaign leader

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Home economics

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classes to teach housekeeping and child care that gave woman at home insight into scope of her obligations

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Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862

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act that allowed for the creation of land grant colleges; allowed women because it was cheaper

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Smith-Lever Act of 1914

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act that funded educational extension programs in rural areas; supported agricultural programs for men and home economic programs for women including technology, demonstration agents, and etc.

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Ellen Key

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Wrote the Century of the Child; idea of motherhood has changed; not a calling but something learned, the educated mother

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The Century of the Child

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written by Ellen Key the idea of motherhood has changed; not a calling but something learned; the educated mother

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Mother's Clubs

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National Congress of MOthers aka PTA a outlet for the educated mother

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Settlement houses

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a place where educated women could make society contribution by helping immigrants; helped women out of hte sphere

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suffrage

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those who wanted the right to vote

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fourteenth amendment

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gave equal rights under the law

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fifteenth amendment

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gave African american men the right to ovte

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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fought for suffrage; Seneca Falls and the Declaration of Sentiments

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National Woman Suffrage Association

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radical faction under Stanton and anthony who did't allow the lower orders of men

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American Woman Suffrage Association

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wanted the word male removed from teh state consitution

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Victoria Woodhull

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speaker for suffrage who fell out due to free love message/scandal

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National American Woman Suffrage Association

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unification of NWSA and AWSA

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Carrie Chapman Catt

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head of the NAWSA said their vote was needed to purify politics

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Julia Ward Howe

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abolitionist and women's rights activisi

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anti-suffragists

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believed woman suffrage was an attack on tradiation beliefs about sex roles and social organizations

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Wrote Women and Ecomonic which argued for women's public econimic independence; first substantive contribution made by a woman to the science of economicss

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Women and Economics

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written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Emma Goldman

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radical anarchist known for her writing and speeches from Russia

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Alice Paul

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suffragist and women's rights; founded NWP

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National Women's Party

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founded by Alice Paul; fought to vote on teh same terms as men; turned their attention to the ERAafter amdnement passed

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Charlotte Woodward

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sole survivor of Seneca Falls who was able to be alive for women's right to vote

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19th amendment

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gave women the right to vote law

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flappers

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new woman of the 20s with short skiers ad bobbed hair

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League of Women Voters

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spawned from NAWSA, watdog agency made up of women's group represntatives formed durin gwWO sought to educate the electorate, democratize political parties by female infilatration and support laws to protect women and children; represented the reform-minded mainstream of the suffage movement

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National Woman's Party

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third party that wanted to support women candidates and causes

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Equal Rights Amendment

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proposed by NWP, women were still subordinate to men and this would erase sex as a legal classification

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Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921

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act that reduced infant and maternal mortaliaty by providing prenatal and health care centers

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Zora Neale Hurston

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anthropoligist during the Harmel REnaiissance; more involved in black culture than in women's black folklorist, author

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Signmund Freud

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stressed the hazards of sexual repression; supported sexual expression of women

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dating and petting

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these two increased because of premarital sex; acceptance with female sexuality; decreased the sense of sisterhood though to competition

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Clara Bow

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actress during the 1920s who starred in the silent film, It

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sexual-romantic changes

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this union allowed expectation change and responsibility of wife though was keeping romance and friendship alive; equal but had to proivde more 'fun'

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Comstock Laws

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contraceptive information was obscenity and made it illegal to send it through the mail

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Margaret Sanger

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wrote Woman REbel, Birth Control REview wich was a birth control advocate

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Woman Rebel, Birth Control Review

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birth control advocate written by Margaret Sanger

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Pessary or diaphragm

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types of contraception mechanisms that bould be obtained from private physicians but purpose was for cure or prevent disease

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pin money

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women's salary to buy he rown litle things

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Frances Perkins

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secretary of labor; denounced women working; deprived another family of income

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Eleanor roosevelt

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pushed for women's rights while first lady

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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civil rights leader; started an Frican American School in Florida; advisor to FDR; head of the 'black cabinet'

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soap operas

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mode of escape during the depression for women

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escapism in movies

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distraction from private problems

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woman power in WWII

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women put into the labor force with men gone; greatest need was in war industry; name of propaganda by government to get women to work

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Office of War Information

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men advertising for the war; the pitch was making sure women knew their work was temporary

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Rosie the Riveter

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propaganda to get women to engage in wartime jobs

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Nisei

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children born to Japanese people in a new country

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Mitsuye Endo

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challeneged the legality of detaining loyal citizens without due process as a violation of the fifth mendment in the supreme court

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Ex parte endo

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said govt could not detain a citizen that they once conceded was loyal to the United States

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Modern Woman: The Lost Sex

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written by Ferdinand Lundberg and Marynia Granham, feminism was a neurotic rection to natural male dominance; true woman accepted depedence on men, passive fulfillment in sex and motherhood

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Ferdinand Lundberg and Marynia Franham

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two authors of Modern Woman: The Lost sex

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domestic ideal of 1950s

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idea that people just wanted life to get back to normal therefore women accepted returning to the home

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Helene Deutsch

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said the feminine woman leaves the initiave and manly work to men

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Dr. Spock

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cautioned moms who wanted to leave their chilren at home while they went to work

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The feminine mystique

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the book written saying the problem that has no name urging women to desire a destiny beyond being a mother or house wife; written by Betty Friedan

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Betty Friedan

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wrote the FEminine Mystique, first president of NOW

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President's Commission on the Status of Women

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1961, established to advise Kennedy on the issues conscerning the status of women

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Equal Pay Act of 1963

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this act tried to abolish wage disparity between men and women

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Peace Corps

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accepted women and men volunteers on an equal basis

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fear of success

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fear that success and intelligence made a woman unattractive and masculine

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Helen Gurly Brown

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celebrated felmale sexuality in her publictions

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Sex and the Single Girl

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written by Helen Gurly Brown; saw housewife as boring and brought attention that the single girl did want to get married

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Cosmopolitan

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women's magazine edited by Helen Gurly Brown

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Daniel P. Moynihan

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wrote the NEgro Family

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The Negro Family

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written by Daniel P. Moynihan; glack poverty is due to the ack of stability and lack of fathers

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Rosa Parks

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refused to give up her seat to a whte person on the bus

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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lost her job trying to vote and became an acivist

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Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII

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act that prohibited discrimination in employment on the basis of race

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Representative Howard W. Smith

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proposed an amenemnt to title VII that prohibited discmination on the basis of sex; no one is sure why though

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Equal Employment Opportunities Commission

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a place where owmen could send their complaints about dscrmination but they never took them really seriously

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National Organization for Women

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organization that politicized political leaders; denied the idea that men and women had different roles in society

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Casey Hayden

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compared sexism to racism

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Consciousness raising

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the idea that talking about each other 's expereinces would raise awareness

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sexism

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discrmination against half of te human species by the other half

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women's liberation

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second wave feminism; elimination of sexism and racism

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equal rights amendment

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supproted by women feminists and lesbian's rights

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first wave

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wave of feminism that foughtfor more official inequalities such as voting

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second wave

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wave of feminism that fought against unofficial inequalities such as social justices

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Ms. Magazine

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provided a form for ongoing feminist issues; publication extending to a wider audience; edited byGloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem

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editor of Ms magazine

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Roe v. Wade, 1973

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invalidated state anti abortion laws

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Comprehensive Child Development Bill

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a bill that would have provided nationwide network of day care centers vetoed by Nixon

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Stop ERA

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campaign by phyillis schlafly to establish women having traditional roles

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Phyllis Schlafly

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leader of Stop ERA movement

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Right to life movement

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movement aimed to reverse federal abortion policy; abotion should not be allowed under ay circumstance

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Sandra Day O'Connor

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first woman to sit on the court

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Webster v. Reproductive services

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missouri law was upheld that allowed it to put restrictions on abortions; allowed states to legislate what they originally thoguth was forbidden under Roe v. Wade

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Planned parenthood v. Casey

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allowed certain limits on abortion such as needing a guardian

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Steinberg v. Carhart

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said states could not ban partial birth abortions

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Hill v. Colorado

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caused creation of 'no approach' zones out side of medical clinics

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RU-486

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emergency day after contraceptive pill

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Catherine MacKinnon

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Women's rights and anti-pornography activist

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Andrea Dworkin

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against ponrography and beliefved it was linked to violence against women

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Anita hill

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brought attention to sexual harrassment when she accused Clarence Thomas

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Clarence Thomas

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judge accused by Anital hill of sexual harassment

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In a Different Voice/You just Don't Understand

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books that addressed gender differences

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postfeminist generation

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young, educated, professional women took the achivements of the women's movement for granted, voiced disinterest

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The Second State

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written by Friedan, urged women's moveemtn to pay more attion to the family

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Backlash

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written by Susan Faludi, state dhow the movies, media, and industry and govt all sabotaged fminist gains

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Susan Faludi

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wrote Backlsh

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cultural feminism

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proteted the existence of gender roles, but the negative connotations of those roles and their devaluation in a male dominated culture

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glass ceiling

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unseen, unbreakable barrier that keeps women and minorities down

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Mommy track

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work track that dimished opportunities for women who chose to have children

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The Divorce Revolution

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divorce improverished ex-wives, especially odler wives and their children, Leonore Weitzman

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Leonore Weitzman

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wrote The Divorce Revolution

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Alice Walker

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coined womanism term

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womanism

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the black woman's feminism

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Geraldine Ferraro

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first woman vice president candiddate

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Thomas-Hill hearings

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Hills charged Thomas with sexual harassment

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Janet Reno

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first woman to serve as the attorney general

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Madeline Albright

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first woman to become the US Secretary of STate

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Sojourner Truth

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African-American speaker at Ohio Women's Rights convention on gender inequalities and racial issues

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Stanley Elkins

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wrote Slavery, A Problem in American Institutional and Intellecutal LIfe, illustrating that American slave master had absolute power and authority over the bondsman that hte slave was reduced to childlike dependy

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Sambo

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slave stereotype of childlike dependency, lazy, docile, infantile, irresponsibility

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Jezebel

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belief that black women were governed almost enetirely by their libido

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Mammy

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stereotype of black women providing domestic sills in household and love white children

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fancy trade

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prostitution of female slaves

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middle passage

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journey of slaves to America; women weree on the top of the boat; often molested and for sexual desires of seamen

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trash gang

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child labor of slavery involving sweeping, choppin cotton, etc.

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doctor women

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midwives who administered various herb tea to ease the pains of many ailing slaves

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grannies

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middle-aged or elderly with children past childbearing age

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abroad marriage

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marriage to person on a different plantation

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sapphire

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a domineering female who consumes men and usurps their roles; not sexual but is as indomitabl and emasculating; tough like Mammy

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