First Wave Women's Movement correct answers (late 1800s to early 1900s)
Goal - open up opportunities for women - focus on women's suffrage
First formal demand of the first wave correct answers Seneca Falls Convention on Women's Rights - demanded that rights of women be acknowledged and respecte...
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First Wave Women's Movement correct answers (late 1800s to early 1900s)
Goal - open up opportunities for women - focus on women's suffrage
First formal demand of the first wave correct answers Seneca Falls Convention on Women's
Rights - demanded that rights of women be acknowledged and respected by society
The 19th amendment... correct answers granted women the right to vote - passed on June 4th
1919 and ratified on August 18th 1920
Second Wave Women's Movement correct answers Goal - eliminate sources of sexism and
gender inequality beyond voting rights - focused on gender inequality in the workplace, family,
sexuality, reproductive rights, and domestic violence
Second wave origins correct answers grew out of leftist movements - The Feminine Mystique -
empirical evidence of the widespread unhappiness of housewives
Outcomes of the second wave correct answers Resulted in the Association for Women in
Psychology - formed by students in 1969 - lobbied for APA to create research that was focused
on women
Third Wave Women's Movement (1990 - present) correct answers -Reaction to lack of activity
on the part of young women since the second wave - issues include equality, women's sexuality,
sexual violence against women, taking back derogatory terms
-Is inclusive, challenging the second wave's over-emphasis on the experiences of upper middle
class white women
Liberal Feminism correct answers women and men should have the same rights and
opportunities
Womanism (or "Woman-of-Color" Feminism) correct answers criticized white women's
movement for exclusion - believes that racism and classism must be recognized as being as
important as sexism
Cultural Feminism correct answers believe men and women are different and that qualities that
are presumed to be better in women than men should be valued and respected
Radical Feminism correct answers gender-inequality based on male oppression and domination
of women - male control is most fundamental form of oppression
-Goal - challenge/overthrow patriarchy by opposing standard gender roles
Global Feminism correct answers -focuses on the relatedness of prejudice and discrimination that
women experience across cultures - recognizes that Western feminists do not have all answers
for women from other cultures
, Is there a general definition of "feminism," or something all feminists agree on? correct answers
Kind of:
Feminist - one who believes women are valuable and that social change to benefit women is
needed
Feminism - a movement to end sexism and sexist oppression
Understand social conservatism, and its perspective on feminism. correct answers focuses on the
preservation of traditional values, keeping gender arrangements as they have been (men in
positions of power, women defined by marriage and motherhood)
-Feminist perspectives in general are contrasted to conservatism
Androcentrism correct answers the belief that the male is the norm - research that is often
formulated from a male-dominant POV
Gender biases in psychological research can occur in any part of the research process... correct
answers 1. Question formulation
2. Designing research - choice of research participants
3. Analyzing data - statistical models lead to a focus on differences rather than similarities -
fewer incentives to publish results showing similarities - this perpetuates the idea that men and
women are different, which may be interpreted as unequal
4. Interpretation bias - Overgeneralization - applied to the larger population of men and women
Understand how minority women have historically been represented in the media and studied in
research. correct answers Serious underrepresentation - research on ethnic minorities of both
sexes are scarce except when they are seen as creating social problems - teen pregnancy
What is sex? correct answers Classification of individuals as female or male based upon their
reproductive anatomy
What is gender? correct answers socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes
that a given society considers appropriate for males and females
Understand social dominance theory. correct answers The idea that societies are built upon
group-based hierarches with a few dominant groups controlling most status and power -
subordinate groups have less status and power
Know the name of the gender-based hierarchy on which our society is run. correct answers
Patriarchy
Understand the consequences of classifying people based on gender (over-relying on gender as a
cognitive category). correct answers Leads us to treat individuals as members of a group - we
have biases toward our own social group
Intergroup bias effect correct answers we tend to perceive our own social group more positively
than others
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