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Chap 24 Women Euro
AP European History- 2011 Gilstrap mid-year review
Question | Answer |
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London 1860 | ethnological society excludes women from discussions on grounds that subject mattter of customs of primitive peoples |
T.H Huxley | led the exclusion of women from discussions on London grounds |
Karl Vogt (1817-1895) | leading German Anthropologist; viewed women as weaker than men and believed they should not discuss sexual matters; supported education for women |
"Descent of Man" | written by Charles Darwin; indicated ideas of Huxley and Vogt |
Karen Horney (1885-1952) | women psychanalyst; challenged Freud's views on women |
Sigmund Freud | saw women aw weaker and less able than men; believed women's role was motherhood |
Melanie Klein (1882-1960) | supported Karen Horney and challenged Freud's ideas |
August Comte | his thoughts were owed to Rousseau; portrayed women as biologically and intellectually inferior to men |
Herbert Spencer | wanted improvement for women but thought they could never achieve equality with men |
Emile Durkheim | portrayed women as creatures of feeling and family rather than of intellect |
Max Weber | favored improvements for conditions of women; did not really support significant changes in social roles or relationship with men |
Contagious Diseases Act | law for prostitutes in Britain that forced any women identified as or suspected of prostitution to be locked in a women's hospital for veneral diseases; made to protect sailors and soldiers; assumed women were inferior and treated them irrationally |
Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act | middle class women; actively opposed laws, achived suspension of acts in 1883 and repeal in 1886 |
Josephine Butler (1828-1906) | leader of the Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act |
General Austrian Womens' Association | combated legal regulation of prostitution which put women under control of police authorities |
Auguste Ficke (1833-1916) | leader of the General Austrian Womens' Association |
Mothers' Protection League (Bund fur Mutterschutz) | married and unmarried women needed help of state (leaves for pregnancy and child care); emphasized the need to rethink all sexual morality |
Ellen Key (1849-1926) | Swedish; wrote "Century of the Child" and "Renaissance of Motherhood" (maintained motherhood as crucial to society and government, rather than husbands should support mother and children) |
Contraception | early advocates for contraception were influenced by social Darwinism; hoped limits on number of children would allow more healthy and intelligent children to survive |
Marie Stopes (1880-1958) | Englishwoman who pioneered contraception clinics in poor districts of London |