Suffragettes - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Feminism -the belief that women should possess the same political and economic rights as men Feminism key concepts -- It is a conflict theory which suggests that there is a patriarchal oppression towards women in society - That sociology is male stream where male thinkers only focus on the issue's men face in society - It has evolved to deal with the contemporary issues and the intersectionality of women Intersectionality -the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, c...

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...

"Cat and Mouse Act" - Answer - Law that released suffragettes on hunger strikes from jail and then rearrested and jailed them again (1913) "Peace, land, and bread" - Answer - The promise Lenin made to his supporters on his arrival in April 1917 in Russia after his exile abroad (in Germany) "Red Shirt" - Answer - Volunteers in Garibaldi's army "Two Tactics for Social Democracy" - Answer - The 1905 essay in which Lenin argued that the agrarian and industrial revolutions could be ...

Video Guide: “Iron Jawed Angels” 1. Why do the leaders of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association dislike the English suffragettes? The leaders of the National American Women's suffrage association dislike the english suffragettes because they are hooligans 2. In what year does the movie begin? The movie began in 1912 3. Which two women took over NAWSA’s Congressional committee? Alice Paul and Lucy Burns took over NAWSA’s Congressional committee. 4. Why do the women ...

malestream -how feminists believe many see society - male-dominated and from their perspective only subordinated -how feminists see females as being treated in society, and is part of their political movement to change their position late 19th century -the 'first wave' of feminism, with the suffragettes' campaign for women's right to vote 1960s -the 'second wave' of feminism, which took on the world globally liberal -the type of feminist who believe women can achieve gender equality...

malestream -how feminists believe many see society - male-dominated and from their perspective only subordinated -how feminists see females as being treated in society, and is part of their political movement to change their position late 19th century -the 'first wave' of feminism, with the suffragettes' campaign for women's right to vote 1960s -the 'second wave' of feminism, which took on the world globally liberal -the type of feminist who believe women can achieve gender equality...

Race -A social construction - Imposing social meanings onto real and/or imagined physiological characteristic (superiority/inferiority) - A way to legitimize the colonial subjugation/subordination of European colonized and continue to deny them access to resources - Racism in engrained in nation building - Seen as static/fixed, inherent and unchangeable - Socially grounded in politics, capitalism, and unequal social relations among different groups of people - Maintained by dominant elit...

Introduction - - Feminism sees society as male dominated and it aims to describe, explain and change the position of women in society - it is also a political movement - The first wave of feminism appeared in the late 19th century with the suffragettes' campaign for the right to vote - the second wave was in the 1960s and it emerged on a global scale - Feminism criticises mainstream sociology for being malestream - seeing society only from the male perspective - There's different types o...

Structural -Society shapes and determines individuals. Our behaviour is controlled by our society by its organisation and culture. We are 'puppets of society'. Conflict -Society benefits one group at the expense of another, in this case, men benefit and women lose out. Patriarchy -Men have more power and status than women. Society is dominated by men. Objective -Aim of feminism is to explain patriarchy and examine the ways it is transmitted from one generation to the new by key instituti...

malestream -how feminists believe many see society - male-dominated and from their perspective only subordinated -how feminists see females as being treated in society, and is part of their political movement to change their position late 19th century -the 'first wave' of feminism, with the suffragettes' campaign for women's right to vote 1960s -the 'second wave' of feminism, which took on the world globally liberal -the type of feminist who believe women can achieve gender equality...