10. the new feminism

Question 1

Failure to pass

Answer 1

consolidated ERA

Question 2

feminist movement/ feminist opinion in 1880s focus on key social issues such as

Answer 2

1. Domestic violence and providing shelters for women. 2. Issues of sexual abuse within and outside marriage
2. Protecting women from sexual harassment in the workplace
3. Education for women in their history and rights
4. Protecting women from conservative attempts to restrict abortion and access to contraception
5. Funding for education for younger women and many social issues

Question 3

issues focused on are

Answer 3

even more specific to women and often depended on looking at a male dominated world with hostility

Question 4

By 1990 still only _ women senators

Answer 4

2

Question 5

Limited consensus about aims and methods/ divided

Answer 5

Some felt insufficient attention had been given to sexist language.
Others that sexuality had been downplayed in a sort or puritanism.
Others that there had been too much association with the political left
no agreement about ERA
disagreements about abortion and about nature and direction of feminism

Question 6

Women becoming more represented in politics

Answer 6

Seven female senators in congress by 1993

Question 7

Much greater availability of contraception =

Answer 7

Decline or illegal abortions and had amounted to a revolution in women’s lives

Question 8

Technology and a much greater willingness of men to be part of the home and child raising =

Answer 8

a change in family life undreamed of in 1865

Question 9

Period between 1942 and 1945 =

Answer 9

women were so important in the nation,

where their achievements were so publicly praised and their sense of adventure and enterprise so welcomed

Question 10

__ of university graduates were women in 1986

Answer 10

1/2

Question 11

Women in positions of authority =

Answer 11

no longer unusual

Question 12

Casual sexism of the 1950s and 1960s =

Answer 12

remote