Terms & Concepts
Women's Studies 101
Feminist History
American Legal
Catch a Wave
100
This confusion of maleness with humanity puts men at the center and relegates women to outsiders in society.
What is androcentrism?
100
The first women's studies department was created in this year.
What is 1970?
100
This 1792 text is the first important expression of the demand for women's equality.
What is Mary Wollstonecraft's _A Vindication of the Rights of Women_?
100
This saying was used to explain how things that seemed to be individual experiences have broader social, political, and economic causes and consequences.
What is "the personal is political"?
100
This part of the feminist movement took place during the 1960s and 70s in the U.S., and its activists worked to attain safe, legal abortions.
What is 2nd wave?
200
This involves the way society creates, patterns, and rewards our understandings of femininity and masculinity.
What is gender?
200
This university housed the first women's studies department.
What is San Diego State University?
200
This 1848 conference is seen as the beginning of the women's movement in the United States.
What is the Senneca Falls Convention?
200
Title VII of this 1964 act forbade workplace discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
200
Many women who took part in this era of the feminist movement got their start in social activism in the abolitionist and temperance movements.
What is 1st wave?
300
This term can be defined as a system in which men are dominant because power and authority are in the hands of adult men.
What is patriarchy?
300
This is one method that women have used to come together, talk about their experiences, and realize that they were not alone.
What is consciousness-raising groups?
300
Women finally won the right to vote in the U.S. in this year.
What is 1920?
300
Title IX of this 1972 act supported equal education and forbade gender discrimination in schools.
What is education amendments?
300
This movement of feminist activity often involved speaking out through musical and artistic forms and consciousness raising rags or 'zines.
What is 3rd wave?
400
This term describes the combination of knowledge from and methodologies of disciplines across the humanities and the social and biological sciences.
What is interdisciplinary?
400
In this strategy for making women the subjects of study, the study of women was integrated into existing curricula through the development of new courses about women.
What is rebalancing the the curriculum or "add women and stir"?
400
These two famous feminists founded the American Equal Rights Association in 1866 and worked for women's enfranchisement.
What is Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
400
This amendment won women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
400
During this phrase of feminist activity, lesbian-baiting--accusing women of being lesbians as a scare tactic--not only kept many women out of the feminist movement, but caused a rift in the 1960s and 70s between straight and queer feminists.
What is 2nd wave?