Describe one criticism of second-wave feminism.
What will be an ideal response?
Second-wave feminism tended to essentialize and oversimplify the category of “women” by focusing on “universal” female experiences such as motherhood. It ignored the great diversity among women along lines of race and social class. They were accused of being rigid in their ideology. There was no focus on intersectionality.
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The first large meeting to discuss women's rights was held in 1848 in
A) Seneca Falls, New York. B) New York, New York. C) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. D) Boston, Massachusetts.
The ambitions of what two nations saw Burma and Vietnam removed from their traditional vassal relations to China:
a. Portugal and the Dutch Republic. b. Japan and the Dutch Republic. c. Great Britain and France. d. the United States and Britain. e. Spain and Portugal.
Whose perspective is presented in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions?
a) Republicans b) Federalists c) Jacobins d) the Shawnee
The authors argue that, for lesbians, being WACs
A) offered unique opportunities to form relationships. B) converted them to a heterosexual lifestyle. C) meant unknown hostility. D) made it impossible to develop relationships with other women.