Midterm Study Questions and Terms
History 346: Modern European Women's History
Spring 1999
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Week 2
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How did 18th-century gender beliefs shape the organization and types of
women's work?
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Rousseau
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Wollstonecraft
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family economy
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domesticity
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consumer
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Verlagsystem
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domestic industry
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guilds
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masterless women
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spinning
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honorable and dishonorable work
Week 3
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How did Enlightenment thinkers conceive of and depict female difference?
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bluestockings
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salons
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Woman Question
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female literacy
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The Persian Letters
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The Nun
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What legacy have the revolutionary women of the late 18th century left
us?
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March on Versailles
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Society of Revolutionary Republican Women
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Pauline Leon
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Olympe de Gouges
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citoyennes
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen
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Code Napoleon
Week 4
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Why did mechanization challenge the existing sexual division of labor?
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mill girl
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needle work
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"ready made" clothes
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skilled or unskilled labor
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philanthropy
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What disadvantages did domestic and industrial women workers share?
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respectability
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cleanliness
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child care
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domestic service
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pliability
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separation of home and work
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family wage
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craft skills
Week 5
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What connections do you see between early feminism and today?
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feminism
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Ellen Key
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relational feminism
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individualist feminism
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free love
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Saint Simonians
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Flora Tristan
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Louise Otto (Peters)
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Jeanne Deroin
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Harriett Taylor Mill
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Married Women's Property Law
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Nelly Roussel
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What connections do you see between notions of companionate marriage and
feminism?
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womanly consciousness
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equal rights
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dissenters
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companionate marriage
Week 6
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Have the causes of domestic violence changed much over time?
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wife beating
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female agency
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divorce
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German Civil Code
Midterm: 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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