UNIT 2: Scientific Revolution

Question 1

Enlightenment was an era of significant transformation in ideas in the workings of the human body and what?

Answer 1

Physiological differences between women and men

Question 2

Enlightenment was a transformation of what 2 things?

Answer 2

Transformation of philosophy and ideas about the human condition

Question 3

Enlightenment was regarded as a turning point in the decline of what? especially in shaping and regulating what?

Answer 3

A turning point in the decline of the church, especially in shaping and regulating sexuality

Question 4

Enlightenment saw the emergence of modern medical and scientific understanding of what?

Answer 4

Genitalia and sexuality

Question 5

Reason and rationality can lead to what?
How can reason and rationality be acquired?

Answer 5

lead to truth
Can be acquired through study of modern science

Question 6

True/False: Religion can explain the mysteries of the universe

Answer 6

False: science can

Question 7

True/False: The enlightenment era believed that middle class men shouldn’t play a role in politics/ governance of state

Answer 7

False: Middle class should play an increasing role

Question 8

5 main ideas of the enlightenment

Answer 8

1) Autonomy
2) Reason/rationality leads to truth
3) Secularism
4) Equality among men
5) Capable of governing themselves

Question 9

What’s the difference between the one sex and the two sex model?

Answer 9

1 sex: before enlightenment, women’s and men’s bodies were seen as the same. Man= standard, woman= deviation

2 sex: grounded in scientific theory, differences between men and women was emphasized

Question 10

What was the first time that differences between men and women were stressed?

Answer 10

Enlightenment / Two sex model

Question 11

Enlightenment provided an excuse to differentiate men and women’s physical bodies in order to differentiate them ____.

Answer 11

socially

Question 12

2 sex model emphasized physical differences between genders, and provided the perfect excuse to relegate women to where and deny them what

Answer 12

Relegate women to the home and deny them equal opportunity in the public sphere

Question 13

Women were being seen as what vs lustful like they were in the Middle Ages

Answer 13

Seen as submissive/passive/less sexually aggressive

Question 14

With increasingly rigid gender roles that came out of 2 Sex model/separate spheres, notions of sexuality were becoming more what at the end of 18th century ?

Answer 14

restrictive and polarized

Question 15

Enlightenment was liberating in terms of equality and scientific/medical knowledge, but in reality it meant more what for women

Answer 15

Restrictions

Question 16

Enlightenment created a new kind of oppression, for middle class women it meant no recognition or concern for their what - instead it emphasized male what

Answer 16

sexual pleasure
- emphasized male sexual pleasure

Question 17

Increasing exclusion of women from___ sphere - emphasized male participation in ____ sphere

Answer 17

Public sphere

Question 18

Two-Sex model is an extremely important idea of the enlightenment period bc it differentiated men and women _____ and ____

Answer 18

physiologically and sexually

Question 19

Enlightenment era took those physiological and sexual differences and used them as an excuse to what

Answer 19

divide men and women up socially

Question 20

Society elevated the status of mens work in the public sphere and rendered the status of women in the private sphere as what

Answer 20

inferior

Question 21

True/false: Private sphere was easier and less work than public sphere

Answer 21

False: Private sphere could be just as gruelling and hard as mens work in the public sphere

Question 22

Print culture gave individuals new sources of what?

Answer 22

Sexual knowledge