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CHAPTER 12
TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS
1. Early Greek and Roman societies were somewhat ambivalent about the role and status of women.
2. According to Plato and Aristotle, the appropriate role for women is in politics and work outside the home.
3. Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau rarely commented on the existence or rights of women and girls in their writings.
4. Rousseau thought that education for women should fit them for the subordinate, dependent, and “natural” role of helpmate to men.
5. Women’s education and training, according to Wollstonecraft, were often geared toward a servant role, not toward a role of citizenry and responsibility in the public sphere.
6. For much of human history, as reflected in Western traditions of thought and philosophy, women and girls were regarded as a form of property.
7. Witch hunts were used to keep women in their traditional role and to persecute women who did not fit into that role.
8. Brownmiller argues that historically the rape of a woman or girl was not considered a crime against her but rather a property crime against her father or husband.
9. It was rare that a law in the colonial period would support the right of a husband to beat his wife.
10. Typically laws regarding adultery have punished the man more than the woman.
11. Common law has usually been used in courts to expand the role and rights of women.
12. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson really intended to include women in the Constitution as full citizens.
13. When Elizabeth Cady Stanton called for the right to vote for women at the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, the rest of the nation agreed, and women received the vote with the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment.
14. Susan B. Anthony and fourteen other women were prosecuted for voting illegally in 1872.
15. The Declaration of Principles presented at the International Woman Suffrage Conference in 1902 affirmed that men and women are born equally free and independent members of the human race.
16. Women in the United States were not allowed to vote until ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1920.
17. In the 1800s and early 1900s women were readily accepted into law schools and legal practice.
18. For all practical purposes, not until the twentieth century could women vote, serve on a jury, freely attend college, hold public office, enter a contract, get custody of their children, or control the money they earned.
19. Not until the 1970s and the feminist movement were women admitted to law schools in any great numbers.
20. Law school and professional occupational numbers indicate that minority and non-minority women have made great inroads into acceptance in the legal profession at the turn of the millennium.
21. The rule that married persons were one person was known as persona mergus.
22. Capitalism is just as evil as patriarchy in the eyes of most legal feminists.
23. Some feminists do not want equal treatment for the sexes in all areas of life.
24. Proposed amendments to the Constitution must be approved or disapproved within a given time period.
25. The Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote.
26. The first states to give women the vote were the liberal eastern states.
27. In 1904 only two nations in the world gave women the right to vote.
28. Petite treason was charged in English common law for criticizing the government.
29. Sex/gender issues are now subjected to strict scrutiny standards in judicial review.
30. The United States is one of the few countries that has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
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