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What was the percentage of high school graduates who were women from 1890 to 1920?
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?
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?
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?
What did going to college signify for some women?
What did acquiring higher education signify for women?
What did acquiring higher education signify for women?
Who were joining white foreign‐born and black women in the labor force for the first time?
Who were joining white foreign‐born and black women in the labor force for the first time?
What was the percentage of female professionals in the non‐agricultural female work force in 1920?
What was the percentage of female professionals in the non‐agricultural female work force in 1920?
In what year did the percentage of female professionals reach an historic peak?
In what year did the percentage of female professionals reach an historic peak?
What was the percentage of female clerical workers in non‐agricultural occupations in 1920?
What was the percentage of female clerical workers in non‐agricultural occupations in 1920?
What was one of the key tenets of the new feminism?
What was one of the key tenets of the new feminism?
What did the new feminists seek to change human consciousness about?
What did the new feminists seek to change human consciousness about?
What did the suffrage movement give feminists according to the text?
What did the suffrage movement give feminists according to the text?
What was the purpose of the Heterodoxy Club of Greenwich Village?
What was the purpose of the Heterodoxy Club of Greenwich Village?
What was a central belief of New Feminists?
What was a central belief of New Feminists?
What did the new feminists tend to romanticize?
What did the new feminists tend to romanticize?
What did feminism appeal to the new feminists because of?
What did feminism appeal to the new feminists because of?
What did new feminists see as a necessity for women regardless of their sex and marital status?
What did new feminists see as a necessity for women regardless of their sex and marital status?
According to the text, what did feminism stand for?
According to the text, what did feminism stand for?
Who was a powerful influence on Margaret Sanger, the founder of the American birth control movement?
Who was a powerful influence on Margaret Sanger, the founder of the American birth control movement?
Which movement serves as the link between the two chief ideas of the new feminism‐‐economic and sexual independence?
Which movement serves as the link between the two chief ideas of the new feminism‐‐economic and sexual independence?
According to the text, what was one of the important forms taken by feminists' ideas on sexuality?
According to the text, what was one of the important forms taken by feminists' ideas on sexuality?
What concept did feminism join with the aim of individual release of personality?
What concept did feminism join with the aim of individual release of personality?
According to the text, what must women be free to exercise in order to control their reproductive capacity without interference?
According to the text, what must women be free to exercise in order to control their reproductive capacity without interference?
What did Margaret Sanger openly speak about, challenging conventional respectability?
What did Margaret Sanger openly speak about, challenging conventional respectability?
What did the new feminism seek to emancipate woman as, according to the text?
What did the new feminism seek to emancipate woman as, according to the text?
According to the text, what were the two interconnected but theoretically antagonistic kinds of freedom pursued by new feminists?
According to the text, what were the two interconnected but theoretically antagonistic kinds of freedom pursued by new feminists?
What was the major theme of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's work?
What was the major theme of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's work?
What did the new feminists believe about women's sexual passions?
What did the new feminists believe about women's sexual passions?
What kind of relationships did early twentieth-century feminists seek to establish?
What kind of relationships did early twentieth-century feminists seek to establish?
What did Doris Stevens acknowledge about the 'emancipated man'?
What did Doris Stevens acknowledge about the 'emancipated man'?
What did Ellen Key link to women's true fulfillment?
What did Ellen Key link to women's true fulfillment?
What was problematic for feminists in Ellen Key's views?
What was problematic for feminists in Ellen Key's views?
What did many lesbian feminists see as a way to escape male domination in relationships?
What did many lesbian feminists see as a way to escape male domination in relationships?
What was the value attributed to women's relations with other women in Victorian society?
What was the value attributed to women's relations with other women in Victorian society?
What did members of the Heterodoxy Club coexist harmoniously respecting?
What did members of the Heterodoxy Club coexist harmoniously respecting?
What did Key romanticize and link to bodily health and spiritual harmony?
What did Key romanticize and link to bodily health and spiritual harmony?
What did Key envision for women's fulfillment?
What did Key envision for women's fulfillment?
What did new feminists celebrate?
What did new feminists celebrate?
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