ICDVP Study Guide Questions With Correct Answers 2023 Updated Exam

ICDVP Study Guide Questions With Correct Answers 2023 Updated Exam Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 - ANSWER- implemented by British Parliament; advocated by women's groups; facilitated divorce Violence against women in Archaic states - ANSWER- subjection of women facts of life; buying one's wife became common; Roman laws Law of the 12 Tables - ANSWER- Rome's first set of written laws Impact of Christianity on violence against women - ANSWER- original sin Time span of the witch craze - ANSWER- in Europe and American colonies Number of women tortured and killed as heretics and witches during the witch craze - ANSWER- 200,000-10,000,000 Who was accused of witchcraft during the witch craze? - ANSWER- single/older women living alone; healers and midwives Last official hanging of an accused witch in England - ANSWER- 1684 Last accused witch burned at the stake in Germany - ANSWER- 1775 Foot-binding in China - ANSWER- marketable for marriage; feet could become bloody and infected Year foot-binding in China was outlawed - ANSWER- 1911 Sati - ANSWER- a woman who burns herself alive next to her deceased husband; women not encouraged to live alone; example of love, devotion, and loyalty to husband Honor killings - ANSWER- husband could kill cheating wife; public spectacle Common misogynistic practices in the historical perspective - ANSWER- foot-binding, honor killings, wife selling, killing female infants The rule of thumb - ANSWER- in England medieval law allowed a man to strike his wife with a stick as long as the stick was not thicker than his thumb 1824 Mississippi Supreme Court ruling - ANSWER- court affirmed a husband's right to chastise his wife; husbands could beat their wives to death States that began to go against the 1824 Mississippi Supreme Court ruling - ANSWER- Alabama, Massachusetts Year states began to go against the 1824 Mississippi Supreme Court ruling - ANSWER- 1870 Years feminism returns - ANSWER- 1960s/70s Two branches of 60s/70s feminism - ANSWER- National Organization for Women, women's liberation movement Year and location of the first US shelter - ANSWER- 1980; Texas Year and location of first state coalition against DV - ANSWER- 1976; Pennsylvania What led to the creation of the National Coalition against DV? - ANSWER- 1978 Commission on Civil Rights Year of Family Violence Prevention Services Act - ANSWER- 1984; first federal funding Year of the first national DV hotline - ANSWER- 1987 Year of Violence against Women Act - ANSWER- 1994 Approximate current amount of shelters, hotlines, and networks - ANSWER- 2500 Domestic violence - ANSWER- a pattern of abusing power for the purpose of controlling an intimate partner