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card#1
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic:Take Back the Garden
Note: February 10, 2001, 18,000 women filled Madison Square Garden for a notable feminist gathering. The event- "Take Back the Garden" |
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card#2
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: Duke University
Note: Duke University may tempt some to conclude that the women`s movement in the U.S. is in a state of Hopeless, Hapless, and Permanent Disarray. |
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Card#3
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: Feminism ceased
Note: Perhaps American feminism has become hysterical because it has ceased to be useful. |
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card#4
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: Women in the West
Note: Women in the West did liberate themselves in ways of vital importance to the evolution of liberal society. |
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card#5
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: Women in the West
Note: Feminism, in its classical phase, was a critical chapter in the history of freedom. |
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card#6
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: Women in the West
Note: For most of the world`s women, that history has just begun; for them, classical feminism offers a tried and true roadmap to equality and freedom. |
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card#7
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: Women in the West
Note: And even in the west there are unresolved equity issues and the work of feminism is not over. Who needs feminism? We do. The world does. |
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card#8
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: First feminism
Note: The first, feminism, was progressive (in the view of many contemporaries of both sexes, radical), and it centered on women as independent agents rather than wives and mothers. |
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card#9
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: First feminism
Note: It held that men and women are, in their essential nature, the same, and it sought to liberate women through abstract appeals to social justice and universal rights. |
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card#10
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft, a rebel and a free thinker, believed that women were as intelligent as men and as worthy of respect. |
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card#11
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: French Revolution
Note: Concerning the French revolution which Wollstonecraft initially championed, More wrote, "From liberty, equality, and the rights of man, good Lord deliver us." |
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card#12
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: More
Note: And she was the most prominent woman of her age. |
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card#13
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: "Blues"
Note: The "Blues" were a group of intellectual women (and men) who would meet to discuss politics, literature, science, and philosophy. |
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card#14
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: "Blues"
Note: It was started in 1750 by intelligent but education starved upper and middle class women who yearned for serious conversation rather than the customary chatter and gossip typical of elite gatherings. "I was educated at random," More would say, and women`s education became one of the most passionate causes. |
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card#15
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: More
Note: She was persuaded that these virtues could be realized only when women were given more freedom and a serious education. |
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card#16
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: More
Note: She loathed the mindless pastimes that absorbed upper-class women of her day, and encouraged middle- and upper-class women to leave their homes and salons so as to take up serious philanthropic pursuits. |
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card#17
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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| She told women that it was their patriotic duty to apply their natural gifts-nurturing, organizing, and educating-not merely to their own households, but to society at large. |
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card#18
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: More
Note: She appealed to women to exert themselves"with a patriotism at once firm and feminine for the greater good of all." |
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card#19
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: More`s time
Note: It was taken for granted in More`s time that women were less intelligent and less serious than men, and thus less worthy as human beings. |
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card#20
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: More
Note: More initiated a human revolution in the relation of sexes that was decorous, civilized, and in no way socially divisive. |
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card#21
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: feminism
Note: a feminism the granted women the liberty to be themselves without ceasing to be women. |
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card#22
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: Jane Austen`s Heroines
Note: Her heroines are of rational, merciful, and responsible womanhood. |
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card#23
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: Jane Austen
Note: Austen also honors a style of enlightened and chivalrous manhood. |
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card#24
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: 1895
Note: To prove once and for all that the majority of women wanted the vote, suffragists organized a referendum in Massachusetts in 1895. |
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card#25
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: men and women
Note: Both men and women were allowed to take part in the movement. |
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card#26
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: vote
Note: The initiative lost, with 187,000 in favor voting against the franchise and only 110,000 in favor-and of those who voted yes, only 23,000 were women! |
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card#27
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: average vote
Note: According to Anthony, "The average man would not vote against granting women the suffrage if all those of his own family brought a strong pressure to bear upon him in its favor." |
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card#28
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: vote
Note: It is the conventional wisdom that men denied women the ballot. |
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card#29
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: vote
Note: But even a cursory look at the historical record suggests that men were not the only problem. |
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card#30
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: history
Note: Degler and other historians believe that, because the vote was associated with individualism and personal assertiveness, many women saw it as both selfish and an attack on their unique and valuable place in the family. |
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card#31
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: suffrage moment
Note: In the Americans women`s movement was going to move forward, the suffrage movement needed new arguments and new ways of thinking that were more respectful and protective of women`s role. |
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card#32
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: feminism
Note: There are unforgivable defects in their eyes, but they are precisely the traits that make Willard`s style of feminism highly relevant to the many millions of women all over the world who are struggling for their rights and freedoms in strongly traditional societies, and who do not want to be liberated from their love for family,children, and husband. |
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card#33
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: female tendency
Note: The female tendency to be empathic and and caring shows up very early in life. |
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card#34
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: women
Note: Women are numerically dominant in the helping professions; men prevail in the saving and rescuing vocations such as policemen, firefighters, and soldiers. |
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card#35
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: Betty Friedan
Note: Friedan told Beauvoir that she believed women should have their choice stay home to raise their children if that is what they want to do. |
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card#36
Source: Feminism and Freedom
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers |
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Topic: Beauvoir disagrees
Note: No, we don`t believe that women should have their choice. No women should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women, should not have the choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women would make that one... |
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card#37
Source: Mothers who care to much
Author: Nancy J. Hirschmann |
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Topic: care
Note: care is important, we have to value it, and government policy must support it, both directly and indirectly by requiring employer policies. |
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card#38
Source: Mothers who care to much
Author: Nancy J. Hirschmann |
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Topic: case
Note: My case that women should care less was based on premise. |
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card#39
Source: Mothers who care to much
Author: Nancy J. Hirschmann |
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Topic: responses
Note: By not addressing it, the responses illustrate the very blindness of the feminism that was the focus of my criticism. |
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card#40
Source: Mothers who care too much
Author: Nancy J. Hirchmann |
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Topic: trouble by fact
Note: None of the respondents seem troubled by the fact that women raise children they think this is good |
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card#41
Source:Mothers who care too much
Author:Nancy J. Hirschmann |
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Topic: women
Note: make demands, so let`s look to the state. |
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card#42
Source: Mothers who care too much
Author: Nancy J. Hirschmann |
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Topic: argue
Note: I argue on that we should focus on getting men to do their share of care. |
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card#43
Source: Mothers who acre too much
Author: Nancy J. Hirschmann |
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Topic: feminism ignores fathers
Note: When care feminism ignores fathers, traditionalists fill the vacuum by stressing gender roles. |
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card#44
Source: Mothers who care too much
Author: Nancy J. Hirschmann |
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Topic: Quality Childcare
Note: Lisa Dodson`s romanticized picture of women bringing their to podium fails even to mention the fathers, only the lack of quality childcare. |
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card#45
Source: Mothers who care too much
Author: Nancy J. Hirschmann |
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Topic: difference
Note: If, as Dodson notes, well-paying jobs are evaporating for blue collar men, why aren`t feminists exhorting those men to stay home with their kids? |
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card#46
Source: Mothers who care too much
Author: Nancy J. Hirschmann |
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Topic: married and single mothers
Note: If married and single mothers alike could count on the unemployed fathers of their children to provide care, those mothers would have an easier time achieving professional success. |
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card#47
Source: Mothers who care too much
Author: Nancy J. Hirschmann |
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Topic: Atlantic Article
Note: Ann Friedman`s response is the most puzzling. In her terrific critique of Hanna Rosin`s recent Atlantic article "The End of Men," Friedman argued that what may be disappearing is not "men" but "the traditional male stereotype." |
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card#48
Source: Mothers who care too much
Author: Nancy J. Hirschmann |
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Topic: article
Note: But as she said in her earlier article, "I fail to see why these nurturing professions... must forever be the province of women, "Amen to that." |
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card#49
Source: Mothers who care to much
Author: Nancy J. Hirschmann |
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Topic: employers
Note: But employers cannot mandate how men spend the time made available for childcare. And making "time for care... a national value" has already been tried; it was called "family value" and feminists were unable to wrest it from conservatives precisely because it feeds into men`s resistance to care work. |
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card#50
Source: Mothers who care too much
Author: Nancy J. Hirschmann |
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Topic: point
Note: But my point is that despite diverse approaches, creative, idealism, and sophisticated theories, care for feminism has little effect on gender equality. |
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