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| The study of governments, public policies & political processes, systems, & political behavior. |
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| Founder of NOW, credited with starting second wave of women’s movement. |
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| Escaped slave who became leading figure in abolitionist movement. He was also closely allied with the women’s suffrage movement. He was homies with Susie Anthony & Liz Stanton. |
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| Passed in ’63 & guaranteed equal pay by eliminating wage disparity based on sex. |
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| Suffrage activist who is credited with getting suffrage for women (19t amendment). She used tactics from UK such as demonstrations, parades, mass meetings, picketing, suffrage watch fires, & hunger strikes. |
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| Focuses upon both the public & private spheres of a woman's life & argues that liberation can only be achieved by working to end both the economic & cultural sources of women's oppression. |
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| Concept concerning the study of the developmental processes by which children & adolescents acquire political cognition, attitudes & behaviors. |
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| First women’s convention organized by Elizabeth Stanton at Seneca Falls, NY. |
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| Argue that a parallel exists between the subordination of women in families & the degradation of nature through construction of differences that allow a justification of domination by subjects classed into higher-ranking categories over objects classed into lower-ranking categories (e.g. man over woman, culture over nature). |
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| ERA - Equal Rights Amendment |
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| Proposed amendment to the constitution by Alice Paul affirming the equal application of the U.S. Constitution to both females and males. Keeps being reintroduced since 1923 to now & keeps failing. |
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| Political Action Committee. Organization used to funnel donations & support to particular candidates, usually based upon some type of ideological premise. |
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| Transnational feminism/Global Feminism |
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| TF: states that issues of feminism are different depending on diff. factors such as imperialism,r ace etc. G.F. believe is a sort of global sisterhood |
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| PAC devoted to electing pro-choice Republican women to the House & Senate. "WISH" stands for Women in the Senate & House. |
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| : Asserts the equality of men & women through political & legal reform. It is an individualistic form of feminism |
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| First black woman elected to Congress. She’s the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States & the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination |
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| Builds both upon feminist challenges to the idea that gender is part of the essential self & upon gay/lesbian studies' close examination of the socially constructed nature of sexual acts & identities. Whereas gay/lesbian studies focused its inquiries into "natural" & "unnatural" behavior with respect to homosexual behavior, queer theory expands its focus to encompass any kind of sexual activity or identity that falls into normative & deviant categories. |
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| Carrie Chapman Catt's 1916 "winning plan," which re-focused efforts on a constitutional amendment instead of rallying in individual states. |
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| What exists & can be studied. |
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| How do we know what we know? What should be studied? |
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| The concrete steps we use to study a theory or hypothesis. |
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| : Law enacted in 1972. It states: No person in the US shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program receiving Federal financial assistance. |
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| Largest feminist organization in the United States. “To take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges & responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men." |
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| Started Seneca Falls. One of the earliest & most active suffrage activists. Lots of shorties. |
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| One of the earliest & most active suffrage activists. She traveled US educating people about suffrage |
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| Helped get 19th amendment passed. She also founded NOW. |
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| : Extremely conservative activist & author. She is opposed to tradition feminist ideals & equality. |
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| : PAC that aims to help elect female candidates who are pro-choice to office. "Early Money Is Like Yeast" |
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| was founded by Carrie Chapman Catt in 1920. Advocated & empowers women to use their vote through policy studies & lobbying etc. |
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| African American early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented the extent of lynching in the United States, & was also active in the women's rights movement & the women's suffrage movement. |
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