Women's Health Chapter 1 Exam Questions & Answers(RATED A)

1830s-1840s -ANSWER -When many historians believe the Women's Health Movement began First Wave of Advocacy -ANSWER -Focused on: -eating a proper diet -elimination of corset -sexual abstinence to control family size Elizabeth Blackwell -ANSWER -Went to medical school in 1847 -responsible for opening medical schools for other women to attend Seneca Falls -ANSWER -Location of the first women's rights convention in 1848 Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton -ANSWER -Examples of two women that were volunteer nurses in the Civil War -some woman even dressed as men 1873 -ANSWER -first training school for nurses opened, due to women's participation in Civil War Relationship between male doctors and female nurses -ANSWER -mirrored domestic hierarchy. Dominant Male, subordinate female Mid to Late 1800s -ANSWER -The Women's Medical Movement emerged due to -growing number of women attending medical school -struggle to achieve equality in work environment -challenging notion of women's fragility 1890s-1920s -ANSWER -The Progressive Era 1920 -ANSWER -The 19th Amendment: Women could vote Margaret Sanger -ANSWER --1916 opened USA first birth control clinic in Brooklyn -pushed to legalize birth control