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Midterm #2
Part 1: 15 MATCHING QUETIONS (30 points), Examples Below (taken from class lectures and presentations)
1 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
2 Club Movement
3 Hull House
4 "Uprising of 20,000"
5 Lawrence Strike, 1912
6 Women's Joint Congressional Committee (WJCC)
7 "Car-nival of Lust"
*International Workers of the World ("Wobblies");
**Women's Trade Union League;
***International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union |
_____Middle-Class Women's Universities
_____Involved IWW*, WTUL**, Margaret Sanger
_____At mid-nineteenth-century, wanted suffrage
_____New York Shirtwaist Strike, involved ILGWU***
_____Worked for legislation providing for protection of women and children in the work place
_____Represented 1920s parental fear there teens would have promiscuous sex
_____Jane Addams' effort to help others (and women) |
Part 2: Essay Questions (70 points):
II. Essay: From 1950 through the 1980s, which areas of American women’s lives have changed most—family, work, or public? Choose one of these areas as most important to the lives of women between 1950 to the 1980s, and discuss significant changes and the impact of these changes on the lives of women. Use examples from your reading to support your argument, esepcially from Brownmiller and McGirr, along with other reading addressing life for women in the 1950s. (70 POINTS) |
