Women's Rights Leaders

Question 1

Jane Addams

Answer 1

1860-1935 American from IL - Nobel Peace Prize 1931 - Social worker, philosopher, author, women’s suffrage leader - Co-founder of Hull House in Chicago (1889), a women’s inner-city residence to help with social svcs y education and conduct sociological research

Question 2

Susan B(rownell) Anthony

Answer 2

1820-1906 American social reformer y feminist - Played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement - Quaker, anti-slavery, pro-temperance - Co-wrote History of Woman Suffrage (1881) with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, et al - Arrested y put on infamous trial in 1872 for voting in pres election, where she claimed “you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored.”

Question 3

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 3

1815-1902 American social activist, abolitionist, y leading figure of the early women’s rights movement - Gave Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 - Agnostic - Friends with Susan B Anthony

Question 4

Juliette Gordon Low

Answer 4

1860-1927 American - Founded Girl Scouts in 1912 in Savannah, GA - Friends with Robert Baden Powell - Lived in UK mostly - Pres. Medal of Freedom posthumous 2012

Question 5

Margaret Sanger

Answer 5

1879-1966 American from NY - Birth control activist, sex educator, y nurse - Founder of Planned Parenthood (1921 - originally the American Birth Control League) - Popularized the term “birth control” - Opened USA’s 1st birth control clinic in 1916, which led to her arrest

Question 6

Gloria Steinem

Answer 6

1934- American feminist from OH - Spokeswoman for the feminist movement in the late 1960s - Founded Ms. Magazine in 1971 - Received Pres Medal of Freedom in 2013 - Stepmother of actor Christian Bale

Question 7

Betty Friedan

Answer 7

1921-2006 American feminist leader - Wrote The Feminine Mystique (1963) - Helped found NOW in 1966, y served as its first president

Question 8

Helen Gurley Brown

Answer 8

1922-2012 American author y publisher - Editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years (1965-1997) - Wrote Sex and the Single Girl (1962)

Question 9

Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman)

Answer 9

1864-1922 American journalist from PA - Made trip around the world in 72 days in 1889 - Wrote exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within (1887) - Was pioneer in her field, and launched a new kind of investigative journalism

Question 10

Dorothea Dix

Answer 10

1802-1887 American activist for the mentally ill - Lobbied states y Congress for funding the 1st generation of mental asylums - Served in Civil War as superintendent of army nurses

Question 11

Maria Montessori

Answer 11

1870-1952 Italian physician y educator - Created the philosophy of education, the Montessori Method - Opened her first school, Casa dei Bambini (Children’s House) in Rome in 1907 - Wrote about “scientific pedagogy” - Method still in use today

Question 12

Wilma Mankiller

Answer 12

1945-2010 Cherokee leader from OK - Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1985-95) - Liberal member of Democratic Party - Wrote Mankiller: A Chief and Her People (1999); Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women (2004) - Increased size of Cherokee Nation by over 100k

Question 13

Madame de Pompadour

Answer 13

1721-64 French courtesan - Official chief mistress of Louis XV - Major patron of fine arts, architecture, y enlightenment philosophers - Lived at Versailles

Question 14

Ida B(ell) Wells

Answer 14

1862-1931 Afr-American journalist, newspaper editor, y suffragist - Early leader in the Civil Rights Movement - Co-founder of NAACP in 1909 - Did investiagative journalism on lynching in the South - Wrote pamphlet Southern Horrors and The Red Record (1892) about lynching laws

Question 15

Victoria (Claflin) Woodhull

Answer 15

1838-1920 American woman’s suffrage leader from OH - Ran for President in 1872 election, for the Equal Rights Party with Frederick Douglass as running-mate, depsite being 34 years old - 1st woman to run for Pres - Made fortune as a magnetic healer y spiritualist, then as a Wall Street broker

Question 16

Mary Wollstonecraft

Answer 16

1759-1797 English women’s rights activist, writer, y philosopher - Wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), which argued that women are not naturally inferior to men - Regarded as one of the founding Feminist philosophers - A memoir of her life published in 1798 revealed her unorthodox lifestyle, illegitimate children, y many love affairs, and ruined her reputation for a century - Died giving birth to author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley