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1. This sixteenth-century author was the first woman to write a full-length polemic against male supremacy and female subjection in the English language. Her defense of womankind fervent, what was this pioneering writer's hostile-sounding name?
2. In a series of letters written 1775-76 from Braintree, Massachusetts this future first lady counseled her husband to "Remember the Ladies" in "the new Code of Laws". "Do not," she wrote, "put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could....Why then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the Lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity. Men of Sense in all Ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your Sex." Who wrote this?
3. In the Age of Enlightenment, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote a treatise calling for women's education and development of reason. In her lengthy dedication to Bishop of Autun, she wrote, "Contending for the rights of woman, my main argument is built on simple principle, that if she be not prepared by education to the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge and virtue; for truth must be common to all, or it will be with respect to its influence on general practice." What is the name of this famous work?
4. The world's first woman sociologist preferred to take a scientific approach to the woman question: "It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature."
Who was this 19th-century philosopher and social scientist?
5. This lady founded an organization whose Declaration of Principles states, among other things, "We believe that God created both man and woman in His own image, and therefore, we believe in one standard of PURITY for both men and women, and in the equal right of all to hold opinions and to express the same with equal freedom." [Emphasis added].
She also wrote in a speech, "Let us not be disconcerted but stand bravely by that blessed trinity of movements--Prohibition, Woman's Liberation, and Labor's Uplift". Now, which lady, and which group?
6. "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights...".
"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of tyranny over her...
"He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice...
"He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.
"He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.
"He has made her morally, an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband...
"He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education, all colleges being closed against her....
What is the name of the document from which these quotes are extracted? (Think of another famous American document that sounds like this.)
7. "The basic freedom of the world is the woman's freedom. A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.... No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother".
Who wrote these daring words in 'Woman and the New Race' in 1920?
8. "From the inauguration of the movement for woman's emancipation," wrote this unabashed freethinker, "the Bible has been used to hold her in the 'divinely ordained sphere'". In the introduction to "The Woman's Bible" (1895), a two-volume work of Biblical criticism and exegesis, she further wrote: "Listening to the varied opinions of women, I have long thought it would be interesting and profitable to to get them clearly stated in book form." Who was this suffragist who worked with Susan B. Anthony on women's right to vote?
9. This French existentialist philosopher wrote 'The Second Sex' (1949), which analyzes 1000 years of the subjection of women as second-rate persons. The Vatican condemned it, and the English translation was expurgated. Who wrote this controversial critique?
10. What book about "the problem that has no name" is usually credited with sparking the Second Wave of Feminism in the USA in the 1960s?
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