Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:

urbanization, consumerism, pregnant, traditional, zenith, walk, legal, missionaries, flapper, saloon, crushing, Sanger, factories, subordinate, birth, contraception, Djakarta, Chinese, bindings

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19th century

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traditional roles

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almost all women were in                       traditional roles

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womens' role may have been just as important as mens' but from a           legal point of view, women were                       subordinate

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lack of rights to vote

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lack of rights to own property

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China

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foot                 bindings were for women a mandatory custom for upper class women

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from childhood                 crushing their feet

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they could not         walk like men

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19th century some reaction against it from                         missionaries and Chinese

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political rights

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why in the 19th century and not in the 18th?

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late 19th century: liberal ideas reaching a             zenith in Europe and United States by 1860s/1870s

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former slave movement

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many people who were active for getting rights for slaves also were pro-rights for women

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not just a matter of principal but to protect themselves

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why in the 19th century, what's changing?

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big cities,                         urbanization, construction of saloons

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on a farm, a husband didn't have a             saloon to go to, now he did, many man wrecking families, women needed to protected themselves

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women wanted to ban or restrict the sale of alcohol

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protect their working conditions from industrial abuse

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origins of modern feminism

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1910s, 1920s

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emancipation

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          birth control

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in addition to political rights, they are talking more and more about emancipation

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from being locked into traditional roles

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they want an independent lifestyle

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the right to control if they get                 pregnant and have children

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Margaret             Sanger (1879-1966)

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American birth control activist

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nurse

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popularized the term "birth control"

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helped legalize                           contraception

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1916: opened the first birth control clinic

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was put on trial for talking about the subject of birth control

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equal opportunity

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society has changed, women find themselves in new roles, they are trying to adjust the social expectation of women to match

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American modern girl, i.e.               flapper

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modern girls are showing up in other countries as well

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Chinese adapting Western styles in traditional               Chinese ways

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cities that are bridge points of East and West, where these styles are communicated

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Tokyo

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Shanghai

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Saigon

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women in these places are trying out new life styles, clothing styles, and activism

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modern girls are very much about                       consumerism: perfumes, cars, cigarettes, fashions

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Soviet Union had campaigns in reaction against this new consumerism girl

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Soviet communism promoted itself as being about womens' liberation as well, but not in the sense of liberated Western women who were very much about consumerism: perfumes, cars, cigarettes, fashions. Soviet women were liberated in the sense of being allowed to work in                   factories alongside their male comrades.