WST 377 Final Exam 2022/2023 Questions and Answers

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Angela Davis states in "The Meaning of Emancipation According to Black Women" that emancipated Black women were particularly susceptible to the brutal assaults of the judicial system differently to th... eir male counterparts. How? - ANSWER When Black women resisted sexual assault from White men they were frequently thrown in prison. Anna Howard Shaw, President of NAWSA, used all of the following strategies to get the vote except: - ANSWER Hunger strikes Which new tactic did Harriet Stanton Blatch promote? - ANSWER Suffrage parades Alice Paul and Lucy Burns wanted to hold the party in power responsible for the failure to pass suffrage. - ANSWER True * All of the following were basic strategies of Alice Paul's National Women's Party except: - ANSWER Support for the destruction of private property and domestic terrorism. Working class women (both of color and White) did not enthusiastically embrace the cause of woman suffrage. Why? - ANSWER They were more concerned with immediate problems -- wages, hours, working conditions-- to fight for a cause that was too abstract. Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that it was more important for White women to get the vote than Black men. - ANSWER True According to the video Not for Ourselves Alone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was condemned by NAWSA for writing which of the following documents? - ANSWER The Woman's Bible White Women Suffragists were influenced and inspired by the political power and respect Native/Indigenous women received in their own communities. - ANSWER True The Congressional Union scheduled a huge suffrage parade for the day when _________________ would arrive in town for his Presidential inauguration the next day. - ANSWER Woodrow Wilson Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Declaration of the Sentiments," argues that men - ANSWER complelled women to submit to laws that they have no voice in creating, denied women from obtaining a thorough education, monopolized all profitable employments, and created a different moral code for women. CHOOSE ALL OF THE ABOVE Sarah Grimke's "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes," argues that women are educated from childhood to regard themselves as inferior creatures and thus do not develop self-respect - ANSWER True Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman" speech talks about - ANSWER her experiences as a black woman in a racist, patriarchal society In Susan B Anthony's speech after her arrest, she argues that not only married women, but the entire womanhood of the nation are in a condition of servitude because - ANSWER Both A and B - they are tried, convicted and punished without a jury of their peers AND they are taxed without representation and governed without their consent Elizabeth Cady Stanton in "The Solitude of Self," argues that the strongest reason to give women the vote is because - ANSWER as individuals, they must rely on themselves The suffrage movement split at the end of the Civil War into the National Women's Suffrage Association and the American Women's Suffrage Association because - ANSWER the 14th and 15th Amendment did not include women In 1873, Susan B Anthony went on trial, charged with - ANSWER Voting in a presidential election Under English Law, women were considered femme converts. This meant that - ANSWER a women's legal identity was covered by her husband All of the following are characteristics of "The Cult of True Womanhood" except - ANSWER Perfection. (They include purity, piety, submissiveness, and domesticity) The "Pastoral Letter" that as written by the New England clergy was critical of Sarah and Angelina Grimke because - ANSWER They spoke in public Alice Walker defines a womanist as: - ANSWER ALL OF THE ABOVE. (A women who loves other women, sexually and/or nonsexually, a black feminist or feminist of color, and someone who is committed to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female). In Audra Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House," the "master's tools" to which she refers are: - ANSWER Racism and homophobia Feminism has always been a monolithic concept and a united movement - ANSWER False Intersectionality allows us to - ANSWER conceptualize how individuals are constituted through interlocking identity characteristics (ability, sexuality, race, age, etc). The Theory that all people are born free and equal in a state of nature is known as: - ANSWER The Theory of Natural Rights European Colonization affected indigenous in all the following ways except: - ANSWER Women because much more powerful in most tribes *In her Essay "Theory as Liberatory Practice," bell hooks argues that theory is only healing, liberatory, or revolutionary when we consciously and deliberately direct our theorizing toward that particular end. - ANSWER True *Standpoint Theory refers to - ANSWER The ways an individual's perspectives are shaped by his or her experiences in social locations and social groups ____________ refers to the biology of persons, while ____________ refers to the behaviors and characteristics that the person is supposed to exhibit based on his or her biology - ANSWER sex/gender According to this week's lectures, all knowledge is neutral and value free - ANSWER False *** Which of the following arguments does Mary Church Terrell make in The Progress or Colored Women? - ANSWER The origins of the Progressive Movement included all of the following except: - ANSWER Modernization (it included Industrialization, Immigration, and Urbanization) All of the Progressive causes advocated for equal justice for all - ANSWER False "America..... is like a garden in which the gardener pays no attention to the weeds. Our criminals are our weeds, and weeds breed fast and are intensely hardy. They must be eliminated. Stop permitting criminals and weaklings to reproduce." This quote is an articulation of what strand of Progressive thought? - ANSWER Eugenics In "The Status of Women in America," Anna Julia Cooper argues that being a Black women in the last decade of the 19th century carried with it privilege and opportunity that was not afforded previously. - ANSWER True Why was the Triangle Shirtwaist fire significant - ANSWER It illustrated the need for the protective labor legislation Why were so many feminists opposed to Alice Paul's proposal of an ERA? - ANSWER They were afraid that it would invalidate protective labor legislation. In her essay "Lynching and the Excuse for it," Ida B Wells argued that the real cause of lynching was: - ANSWER Contempt for law and race prejudice All of the following are true of the Comstock laws except: - ANSWER They outlawed all abortions Adolph Hitler based his policies to create a master race on those originally instituted in the United States - ANSWER True Betty Friedan spoke about the crisis of identity experimented by white middle class American housewives in the 1960s, the feeling of, "Is this all there is?" She called this: - ANSWER The Problem that has No Name **Which of the following descriptions best describes Rosie the Riveter? - ANSWER She was a potent symbol of women's work during WWII Brown vs. Board of Education upheld the constitutionality of "separate but equal." - ANSWER False In Becky Thompson's "Multiracial Feminism" article, she historicizes that one of the earliest feminist organizations from the Second Wave was the group, Hijas de Cuauhtemoc. - ANSWER True Why was Stokely Carmichael's infamous statement "The only position of women in SNCC is prone" significant? - ANSWER It helped convince women to recognize their gender as well as racial oppression In "Learning from the 60s," Audre Lorde argues for a reevaluation of Malcolm X and the 1960s. - ANSWER True Bell Hooks argues that feminist emphasis on "common oppression" was an act of appropriation that ignored women of color's specific experiences. - ANSWER True Malcolm X was not a key figure of the 1960s - ANSWER False Rosa Parks was single-handedly responsible for the Montgomery Bus Boycott - ANSWER False Who was bell hooks critiquing in her chapter "Black Women: Shaping Feminist Thought"? - ANSWER Betty Friedan [Show More]

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