Birth Control
What movement aimed to reduce birth rates among poor and minority groups in the early 20th century?
What is the birth control movement?
What term describes the belief that certain races are genetically inferior and should not reproduce?
What is eugenics?
Who founded the American Birth Control League which was also linked to eugenics?
Who is Margaret Sanger?
Women are constrained by...
What is the nuclear family?
Angela Davis describes this type of work as "invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative..."
What is housework
What controversial policy involved sterilizing women without their consent?
What is forced sterilization?
Which group was often targeted for birth control and sterilization because they were seen as "over-reproducing"?
Who are African American women?
This movement advocated for financial compensation for women's unpaid labor.
What is the Wages for Housework Movement
What was the name of the piece we read by Friedrich Engels?
What is the Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State?
This term refers to the social norm that housework is a woman's responsibility
What is gendered division of labor.
This group of women faced a "double burden" of both wage labor and housework throughout U.S. history.
Who are Black Women.
In pe-industrial societies this was the primary site of both economic production and domestic labor
What is the home?
Why does Angela Davis argue that housework is unnecessary?
1) There is enough technology to communalize housework and this is more efficient.