Feminism EXAM PASSED WITH MOST
STUDENTS
First Wave - ✔✔✔Developed in the mid nineteenth century and was based on political and legal parity
with men.
Franchise - ✔✔✔Also known as the right to vote
Mary Wollstonecraft - ✔✔✔Wrote the seminal first wave feminist piece of writing 'A vindication of the
Rights of Woman'
Seneca Falls Convention - ✔✔✔Held in 1848 and marked the beginning of the women's rights
movement in the US
Society for Women's Suffrage - ✔✔✔Founded in 1867 in London and began the organized movement
of women's rights for the right to vote in the UK.
New Zealand in 1893 - ✔✔✔The first country to grant female suffrage anywhere in the world.
Betty Friedan - ✔✔✔Wrote 'The Feminine Mystique' in 1963, this set the tone for the Second Wave of
Feminism.
Second Wave Feminism - ✔✔✔Concentrated on Women's Liberation, both sexually and socially. It also
concerned with this occurring in the private sphere.
Gender - ✔✔✔A social and cultural distinction between males and females, as opposed to sex, which
refers to biological differences.
, Radical Feminism - ✔✔✔Believes that gender divisions are the most politically significant of social
inequalities, and believed that they are rooted in the structures of domestic life.
Germaine Greer - ✔✔✔Wrote the 'Female Eunuch' and proposed political lesbianism as a radical force
against male dominated patriarchy.
Patriarchy - ✔✔✔The belief that society is controlled and dominated by men, at the expense of
women.
Equal Pay Act - ✔✔✔Created in 1970 to give parity of wages between men and women if they have
the same skills, for the same job with the same experience.
Female suffrage in the UK - ✔✔✔Granted in 1918 after the work of the suffragettes and suffragists.
Rape in Marriage Act - ✔✔✔Finally altered in 1994, so that is was outlawed if no consent was given by
the woman.
Kate Millett (1970) - ✔✔✔Who defines politics as, 'power-structured relationships, arrangements
whereby one group of persons is controlled by another'?
Natural division between the sexes - ✔✔✔The reason given by Feminists for why the private, sexual
division of labour has not been brought into the public, political sphere.
Socialist Feminists - ✔✔✔See the patriarchal nuclear family as reinforcing the capitalist system
through distribution of housework and the socialization of gender roles.
Sexual politics - ✔✔✔Denotes the fact that Feminists are using sexism as a form of oppression much as
the Civil Rights has racism or Socialists have Class Politics
STUDENTS
First Wave - ✔✔✔Developed in the mid nineteenth century and was based on political and legal parity
with men.
Franchise - ✔✔✔Also known as the right to vote
Mary Wollstonecraft - ✔✔✔Wrote the seminal first wave feminist piece of writing 'A vindication of the
Rights of Woman'
Seneca Falls Convention - ✔✔✔Held in 1848 and marked the beginning of the women's rights
movement in the US
Society for Women's Suffrage - ✔✔✔Founded in 1867 in London and began the organized movement
of women's rights for the right to vote in the UK.
New Zealand in 1893 - ✔✔✔The first country to grant female suffrage anywhere in the world.
Betty Friedan - ✔✔✔Wrote 'The Feminine Mystique' in 1963, this set the tone for the Second Wave of
Feminism.
Second Wave Feminism - ✔✔✔Concentrated on Women's Liberation, both sexually and socially. It also
concerned with this occurring in the private sphere.
Gender - ✔✔✔A social and cultural distinction between males and females, as opposed to sex, which
refers to biological differences.
, Radical Feminism - ✔✔✔Believes that gender divisions are the most politically significant of social
inequalities, and believed that they are rooted in the structures of domestic life.
Germaine Greer - ✔✔✔Wrote the 'Female Eunuch' and proposed political lesbianism as a radical force
against male dominated patriarchy.
Patriarchy - ✔✔✔The belief that society is controlled and dominated by men, at the expense of
women.
Equal Pay Act - ✔✔✔Created in 1970 to give parity of wages between men and women if they have
the same skills, for the same job with the same experience.
Female suffrage in the UK - ✔✔✔Granted in 1918 after the work of the suffragettes and suffragists.
Rape in Marriage Act - ✔✔✔Finally altered in 1994, so that is was outlawed if no consent was given by
the woman.
Kate Millett (1970) - ✔✔✔Who defines politics as, 'power-structured relationships, arrangements
whereby one group of persons is controlled by another'?
Natural division between the sexes - ✔✔✔The reason given by Feminists for why the private, sexual
division of labour has not been brought into the public, political sphere.
Socialist Feminists - ✔✔✔See the patriarchal nuclear family as reinforcing the capitalist system
through distribution of housework and the socialization of gender roles.
Sexual politics - ✔✔✔Denotes the fact that Feminists are using sexism as a form of oppression much as
the Civil Rights has racism or Socialists have Class Politics
