Feminists Flashcards

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Lucretia Mott

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Quaker, abolitionist and women’s activist, had to sit in separate area at Worlds antislavery convention, founded swath more college, mentor of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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British, wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women, A Vindication on the Rights of Men, women are equal but have inferior education, mother of Mary Shelley

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Sojourner Truth

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Born Isabella Baumfree, a slave, famous speech- Ain’t I a Woman proclaimed “As much muscle as any man”

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John Stuart Miller and Harriet Taylor Miller

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John wrote On Liberty and Utilitarianism, and The Subjection of Women. Wife was partner in many essays he wrote including The Enfranchisement of Women

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Wrote Declaration of Sentiments for Seneca Falls. Written to parallel Declaration of Independence

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Susan B Anthony

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Co-founded women’s temperance society wrote the journal The Revolution with ECS formed National Woman Suffrage Association. Arrested for voting in 1872 presidential election

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Emmeline Pankhurst

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One of the founders of Women’s Social and Political Union in uk, used hunger strikes where they wouldn’t eat until released from prison

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Margaret Sanger

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Founded American Birth Control League (Planned Parenthood), wrote “What Every Mother Should Know” and “What Every Girl Should Know” and the newsletter The Woman Rebel

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Virginia Woolf

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Wrote Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse and the essay A Room of One’s Own (story of Judith Shakespeare, sis of WS) Also Three Guineas

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Simone de Beauvoir

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French, wrote The Second Sex- •”One is not born a woman, but becomes one.” (2 parts- “facts and myths” and “live and experience”) lover of Jean-Paul Sartre

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