Questão 1
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In 1972, how many members of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party were women?
Questão 2
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How many women were members of the Conservative Party
Questão 3
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In the 1945 general election, out of the 600 MPs how many were women?
Questão 4
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By 1966 there were more female MPs
Questão 5
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The most famous campaign by women against equal pay was by Ford Machinists in what year?
Questão 6
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The feminist groups of Second Wave feminism, such as the Women's Liberation Movement, were a continuation of earlier groups and campaigns
Questão 7
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How many women went on strike in the 1968 Ford Machinists strike?
Questão 8
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How many women attended the first national WLM Oxford conference in 1970?
Questão 9
Questão
Select three main types/groups of feminism
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Socialist
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Liberal
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National
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Political
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Radical
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Rational
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Social
Questão 10
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What do socialist feminists believe/aim to achieve?
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Try to improve the social conditions of women through changing legislations e.g more rights in the home/public sphere
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Believe that female oppression is due to capitalism
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Communism causes further female suppression
Questão 11
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Which feminist historian argued against the theories of socialist feminism?
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Sheila Patterson
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Sheila Rowbotham
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Elizabeth Meehan
Questão 12
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What do liberal feminists fight for?
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Defend women in terms of discrimination - fighting for equal pay
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To end the oppression of capitalism
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That women are the sex objects from men and that women in protest should abstain from sex with men.
Questão 13
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What do radical feminists believe?
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That women are the sex objects from men and that women in protest should abstain from sex with men. Perhaps even become lesbians?
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That women shouldn't be discriminated against - these feminists largely campaign for equal pay rights
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That men should actually be subordinate to women in society - women have had enough
Questão 14
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What year was the Birmingham conference where divisions started to show within the WLM?
Questão 15
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Feminists from the 60s-80s were a homogeneous group sharing common experiences
Questão 16
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What is the name of the major feminist publication of this time?
Questão 17
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What female politician passed the 1970 Equal Pay Act?
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Barbara Castle
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Margaret Thatcher
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Elizabeth Meehan
Questão 18
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31% of married women worked in 1931. What percentage of married women were working by 1971?