8_New Women

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What was the percentage of high school graduates who were women from 1890 to 1920?

55% (correct)

50%

60%

45%

Which state universities did not admit women on the same terms as men by 1900?

Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana

Virginia, Georgia, and Texas

Virginia, Georgia, and Louisiana (correct)

Virginia, Alabama, and Louisiana

What was the proportion of 18‐21 year old undergraduates in 1920?

8% (correct)

6%

2%

4%

What did going to college signify for some women?

Aspiration beyond ordinary horizons Signup and view all the answers

What did acquiring higher education signify for women?

Busy with worldly occupations Signup and view all the answers

Who were joining white foreign‐born and black women in the labor force for the first time?

Native‐born women Signup and view all the answers

What was the percentage of female professionals in the non‐agricultural female work force in 1920?

13.3% Signup and view all the answers

In what year did the percentage of female professionals reach an historic peak?

1900 Signup and view all the answers

What was the percentage of female clerical workers in non‐agricultural occupations in 1920?

25% Signup and view all the answers

What was one of the key tenets of the new feminism?

Economic independence for women Signup and view all the answers

What did the new feminists seek to change human consciousness about?

Social and economic discrimination based on sex Signup and view all the answers

What did the suffrage movement give feminists according to the text?

A platform Signup and view all the answers

What was the purpose of the Heterodoxy Club of Greenwich Village?

Seek individual psychic freedom Signup and view all the answers

What was a central belief of New Feminists?

Elimination of class oppression Signup and view all the answers

What did the new feminists tend to romanticize?

Working-class woman Signup and view all the answers

What did feminism appeal to the new feminists because of?

Analogies between socialism and gender oppression Signup and view all the answers

What did new feminists see as a necessity for women regardless of their sex and marital status?

Freedom to choose work Signup and view all the answers

According to the text, what did feminism stand for?

Self-development as contrasted with self-sacrifice or submergence in family Signup and view all the answers

Who was a powerful influence on Margaret Sanger, the founder of the American birth control movement?

Anarchist Emma Goldman Signup and view all the answers

Which movement serves as the link between the two chief ideas of the new feminism‐‐economic and sexual independence?

The birth control movement Signup and view all the answers

According to the text, what was one of the important forms taken by feminists' ideas on sexuality?

Politics of birth control Signup and view all the answers

What concept did feminism join with the aim of individual release of personality?

Political solidarity among women Signup and view all the answers

According to the text, what must women be free to exercise in order to control their reproductive capacity without interference?

Their sexuality Signup and view all the answers

What did Margaret Sanger openly speak about, challenging conventional respectability?

Sex Signup and view all the answers

What did the new feminism seek to emancipate woman as, according to the text?

"Human being" and "sex-being" Signup and view all the answers

According to the text, what were the two interconnected but theoretically antagonistic kinds of freedom pursued by new feminists?

"Emancipation of woman as a human being" and "as a sex‐being" Signup and view all the answers

What was the major theme of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's work?

The economic subordination of women Signup and view all the answers

What did the new feminists believe about women's sexual passions?

They believed women's sexual passions were equal to men's Signup and view all the answers

What kind of relationships did early twentieth-century feminists seek to establish?

Egalitarian relationships based on mutual desire Signup and view all the answers

What did Doris Stevens acknowledge about the 'emancipated man'?

He was a myth, a product of their hope and aspiration Signup and view all the answers

What did Ellen Key link to women's true fulfillment?

Nurturance and maternity Signup and view all the answers

What was problematic for feminists in Ellen Key's views?

'Sex-specific destiny' for women Signup and view all the answers

What did many lesbian feminists see as a way to escape male domination in relationships?

'Homosocial love' with other women Signup and view all the answers

What was the value attributed to women's relations with other women in Victorian society?

'Purest form of love' Signup and view all the answers

What did members of the Heterodoxy Club coexist harmoniously respecting?

'Sexual and love choices' Signup and view all the answers

What did Key romanticize and link to bodily health and spiritual harmony?

'Erotic life' Signup and view all the answers

What did Key envision for women's fulfillment?

Freedom to form love relationships and end unsatisfactory marriages Signup and view all the answers

What did new feminists celebrate?

Female sexuality and asserted women's 'sex rights' Signup and view all the answers