Exam Study

Midterm #1

Part 1: 15 MATCHING QUESTIONS (30 points) As in the first Midterm

Part 2: Essay Questions (70 points): You will have two of the following questions to answer. For each of the following eras, do you find economic, social, political, or cultural changes and/or continuities most critical? Evaluate these eras, how can we best understand the experiences of women in them? And what about individual autonomy over one's life choices, do women have more or less choices in the 20th century? Why or why not?

1.

WOMEN 1900 TO 1945

(Ladd-Taylor/ Moody-born 1940)

Does the general status of women change in these years, and if so, how?  To what extent are there economic, social, political, and cultural changes affecting American women?  What is the experience of various groups of American women?

Address either the public or economic lives of women in this period, from the public activism of the 20s and 30s, or the economic impact of WWII.

2.

WOMEN 1945 TO 1963

(Moody)

Oye, the infamous fifties! What is the general experience of American women in the 1950s and why?  What is the experience of various groups?  To what extent do these years reflect a continuation of previous trends?  To what extent do you think they are different? 

How are women affected by the institution of family in these years of the baby boom?

3.

WOMEN 1963 TO THE PRESENT (Really, the 80s. . .)

(Dear Sister/McGirr)

How does the status and experience of American women change or not change in these years?  Consider various groups and family experiences, jobs, and public participation—we will look thematically at these areas, then end with questions of women and culture.

What is the impact of the Civil Rights and Women's Liberation Movements on women? The New Right? In what areas of women's lives are changes most profound?

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Midterm #1

Part 1: 15 MATCHING QUETIONS (30 points), Examples Below (taken from class lectures and presentations)

1 Elizabeth Cady Stanton

2 Club Movement

3 Hull House

4 "Uprising of 20,000"

5 Lawrence Strike, 1912

6 Women's Joint Congressional Committee (WJCC)

7 "Car-nival of Lust"

*International Workers of the World ("Wobblies");

**Women's Trade Union League;

***International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

_____Middle-Class Women's Universities

_____Involved IWW*, WTUL**, Margaret Sanger

_____At mid-nineteenth-century, wanted suffrage

_____New York Shirtwaist Strike, involved ILGWU***

_____Worked for legislation providing for protection of women and children in the work place

_____Represented 1920s parental fear there teens would have promiscuous sex

_____Jane Addams' effort to help others (and women)

Part 2: Essay Questions (70 points): You will have two of the following questions to answer.

1. Between 1848 and 1920, American women win the right to citizenship with the passage of the federal amendment for the vote, and its subsequent ratification. Yet to win the vote and a host of other reforms, women had already been participating in the political system--in what significant ways had American women been politically active b/t 1848 and 1930, and in which period do you think they were the most politically successful? Answer the question by addressing the period from 1848 to 1869; 1870 to 1919; 1920 to 1930. Discuss the political participation of women in each era, and then conclude with your thoughts on the era in which women were most politically successful.

2. Discuss the changes and continuities in the labor force participation of women b/t 1848 and 1920; to what extent do you think women are able to be economically indenpendent?

3. What are the major changes in the roles of women in the family between 1848 and 1920?

 

Overall, in this period from 1848 to 1930, to what extent do you find that women were limited in their life possibilities? To what extent do you think they were liberated? What does it mean to be "modern" and how do you think these changes affect women?