Final Exam Study Questions and Terms
History 346: Modern European Women's History
Spring 1999
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Week 9
- What difficulties did women have reconciling their
feminism with organized labor, working-class and
socialist movements?
- Robert Owen
- Flora Tristan
- San Simonians
- Marx and Engels
- double oppression
- Clara Zetkin
- Hubertine Auclert
- Louise Saumoneau
- Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
- Why were some European women so uncritical of
imperialism?
- concubinage
- White Women's Protection Ordinance
- British Women's Emigration Association
- "surplus" women
- female missionaries
- Mary Kingsley
- ethnographers
- Annie Besant
- Contagious Disease Acts
- Why do German war nurses provoke such ambivalence --
contrast your assessment of them and American War Nurses
in Vietnam.
- angels in white
- BDF (Bund Deutsche Frauenvereine)
- Patriotic Women's Association
- nurses' training
- "family at the front"
Week 10
- What difficulties did unwanted pregnancies cause for
German women at the turn of the century?
- wise women/angel makers
- paragraph 219
- blockages
- midwives
- male vs. female networks
- forced sterilization
- "pollution"
- What gains and losses did women experience under the USSR
compared with in Western Europe and the US?
- nihilism
- respectability
- Alexandra Kollontai
- Zhenotdel
- "proletarian morality"
Week 11
- Has women's manufacturing work mostly changed or
generally stayed the same in the 20th century?
- tertiary sector
- glass ceiling
- marriage bars
- female munitions workers
- part timers
- housewife-farmers
- flower makers
- fractured manufacturing processes
- Taylorism
- What disadvantages did female professionals share with
other kinds of workers?
- (pink collar) "white blouse" work
- department stores
- feminization
- mail order
- female professionals
- female work culture
- deskilling
Week 12
- How did fascist movements represent organized
anti-feminism?
- ONMI (National Service for Infants' and Mothers' Welfare)
- La Passionara
- modernism
- Gertrud Scholz-Klinck
- eugenics
- natalism
- Neo-Nazis
- How did the Nazis try to influence every aspect of
women's lives?
- anti-natalism
- sexual leveling
- cult of motherhood
- protest pregnancies
Week 13
- Why do feminists view the welfare state with ambivalence?
- welfare
- daycare and family leave
- family allowances
- full citizenship
- abortion rights
- What new challenges has the end of communism brought for
women in Eastern Europe?
- equal pay
- quotas
- female dissidents
- "civil society"
- entitlements
- "Mommy politics"
- prostitution
- The "socialist family"
- Has globalization divided women or brought them together?
- guest workers
- Roma
- immigration
- xenophobia
- globalization
- multinationals
- nuclear disarmament
- lesbian separatism
- global mobilization of women
- Why is consumption work, and how did German women develop
new consumption strategies to compensate for hard times
in the 1940s and 1950s?
- rationing
- illegal consumption
- hoarding
- "new mark"
- consumer boycotts
- HO (state stores)
Final Exam: students will be asked to identify 5
of 9 terms and discuss 2 of 5 essay questions from the list
above.
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