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Unit 1: Ideas in the modern world
Quick questions on Feminism and environmentalism (QCE Modern History Unit 1)
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What is origins?Show answer
Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792). John Stuart Mill's "The Subjection of Women" (1869).
What is seneca Falls Convention?Show answer
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Declaration of Sentiments demanded women's political and civil rights. Foundational moment of the US women's movement.
What is suffrage movement?Show answer
New Zealand 1893 (first national women's suffrage). Australia 1902 (Commonwealth Franchise Act, though Aboriginal women not included until 1962). Britain: partial suffrage 1918 (women over 30 with property qualifications), equal suffrage 1928.
What is australian achievements?Show answer
Vida Goldstein, Catherine Helen Spence, Edith Cowan (first woman elected to an Australian parliament, Western Australia 1921).
What is intellectual foundations?Show answer
Simone de Beauvoir, "The Second Sex" (1949). Betty Friedan, "The Feminine Mystique" (1963). Kate Millett, "Sexual Politics" (1970).
What is focus?Show answer
Beyond formal political rights to: - Workplace equality (equal pay, equal access). - Reproductive rights (contraception, abortion). - Family law reform (no-fault divorce, custody, domestic violence).
What is australian developments?Show answer
Whitlam government reforms (1972-1975). Elizabeth Reid appointed first women's adviser to a head of government (1973). Family Law Act 1975 (no-fault divorce).
What is global feminism?Show answer
Beijing Declaration (Fourth UN World Conference on Women, 1995). Activism on female genital cutting, child marriage, missing women in Asia.
What is romantic origins?Show answer
Wordsworth, Thoreau (Walden, 1854). The aesthetic valuing of nature.
What is american conservation?Show answer
John Muir founded the Sierra Club (1892); his advocacy helped create Yosemite (1890) and the National Park System. Theodore Roosevelt as president (1901-1909) established or expanded $230$ million acres of public land.
What is australian conservation?Show answer
Royal National Park near Sydney (1879) was the second national park in the world. Henry Lawson and others contributed to a romantic-pastoral Australian environmentalism.
What is rachel Carson, "Silent Spring"?Show answer
Documented the ecological effects of pesticides, especially DDT. Catalysed modern environmentalism. Banned DDT in the US (1972).
What is the Apollo Earthrise photograph?Show answer
Showed Earth from lunar orbit; powerful symbol of planetary fragility.
What is earth Day?Show answer
Mass demonstrations across the US.
What is environmental legislation?Show answer
US Environmental Protection Agency (1970). US Clean Air Act (1970, expanded 1990). UN Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment (1972).