Saturday, March 13, 2010

ORAL MIDTERM UPDATES SCHEUDLE

Monday March 15
10:00 David Ma 17A
10:10 Jamie H9
10:20 Ashley F H9
11:20 Nicole J H9
12:20 Danielle Mehaz 17A
12:30 Phung Nguyen 17A
12:40 Student 17A

Tuesday March 16
9:30 Roanna 17A
9:40 Shinji 17A
9:50 Anam 17A
10:00 Sonya M 17A
10:10 Thomas L 17A
10:20 Steve E 17A

11:20 Rianne H9

12:20 Pavrati H9

Wednesday March 17
9:30 Thien N 17A
9:40 Inas 17A
9:50 Michelle T H9
10:00 Amy D H9
10:10 Michelle Y H9
10:20 Stefanie S H9

11:20 Huan Phi

12:20 Kelsey St. Marie
12:30 Lane Kagiyama

Thursday March 18
9:30 Tuan T 17A
9:40 Virginia H9
9:50 Andrew H9
10:00 Kimberly H9
10:10 Mich H9
10:20 Milam H9

11:20 Branden W 17A

12:20 Erfani H
12:30 Yuliya S

Thursday, March 11, 2010

GRADES (WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!) It finally worked.

This is out of 255 (does not count attendance points).

StudentID Total
11232012
11290899 252
11347867 187
11336143
11344559 209
11280865 20
11293372 194
11295025
11341067 176
11341608 197
11351405 4
11372619 190
11289381 193
11215448 234
11365442 224
10545877 20
11371406 4
10223951 4
11213138
11184119 233
11341241 4
11362632 196
11346944 191
11334207
11288030 4
11373856
10341072 181
11160056 198
11275568 224
11294690 227

11312722 216
11187145 195
11347909
11326725 217
11252146 9
11288158
11347475 225
11363957 209
11339645 188
11357793 209
11266487 203
11348869
11339957
11360978

11298037

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

PP Notes Minority Women

Hispanic Women in America

Large Mexican immigrants began coming into the U.S. in the 20s, as MX was exempt from immigration laws
During Great Depression, exported
Labor struggles
Civil Rights Movement
Ceasar Chavez and Dolores Huerta
Impact to Democratic Party
The Chicano Movement




Hispanic women: isolated from external society because of demands in home (cultural)
Limited by language and literacy
Poor medical care
Dominated domestic and agricultural labor (provided cheap work force) but thus lacked decent working conditions
Racial disempowerment: both gender and race
Affirmative Action sought to repair some of the injustice


Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez became the first Puerto Rican woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as well as the first Hispanic woman to serve as chair or ranking member of a full committee in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives.


Issues of children being citizens (Logan, Ut example)
1960s – 80s continued to be a time of struggling for economic and legal recognition, protection and equality
Become a major demographic in political life (voting, lobbying etc)
Black Women in America

Post Harlem Renaissance into identity
Continued issues of prejudice
Civil Rights Movement
Feminist Movements
Affirmative Action
Still disparity in education, wages, standard of living
Issues of divor, violence, single mothers, abandonment



Become a major demographic politically
Largest registered voters/voter turn out of any minority group
Highest levels of education attained than any other minority group
Usually vote Democratic ticket
CURRENT trends show a move toward re-segregation (by blacks, black primary schools)

Second largest consumer group in America
Still have wage disparity and poor at a rate not in line with whites
Under represented in government like all minority groups in U.S.
Asian Women in America

Less than 5% of U.S. population
More urbanized than other minority groups
Women more likely to work
Fewer children than other minority groups
Impacting various elements of cultural
Medical – changed the landscape of American medicine
Have the highest educational qualifications



Includes all of Asia (China, Japan, Pakistan, India, etc.)
Highest rate of college degrees
Vincent Chin 1982
Culturally disapprove of intermarriage but is more common
Seek more heavily to maintain independent culture
In many, women have minimal freedom
Victims to husbands

Other Minority Women in America
Cultural, language, legality
Education
Poverty and Income
Families

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Study Guide II Midterm 2: Part 2 (ORAL)

1. Discuss women in American History through WWI and the 1920s. What was life like for women before and then during WWI? What legal rights or limitations did they have? Work and educational opporutnities? What were the values for women up through WWI? Make sure to discuss the Comstock law, birthcontrol and early feminism. What happened for American women during WWI? How did work, education and home life change because of the war? What happened post war? Discuss music, styles and attitudes or cultural changes in the 1920s? What caused these changes in women? Give at least 3 specific examples of women from this era (from our reading or lectures) who are historically significant and explain why. (i.e. Margaret Sanger)

2. Discuss women in the U.S. after World War II. How did education, family and work change? How did birth control influence these changes? How did the politics of this time change? (Discuss Roe v. Wade and other important political issues for women). How did the women's movement emerge and what was it? What about life for minority women in the U.S. - what was it like, did they experience the same progress? Why or why not? Discuss modern feminism and explain at least two different types of it, and why it is important. Discuss at least two specific women from our readings and lectures, post WWII, who are historically significant and explain why.

Study Guide Midterm 2: Part I

1. Who was Helen Keller? Why was she important?
2. Discuss the First Wave of Feminism. And suffrage. How did it shape and change life for U.S. women going into the 20th century?
3. Discuss the Comstock Mine.
4. What were the Comstock Laws? What did they attempt to prevent or do? Why did some oppose them?
5. Who was Margaret Sanger and what did she do regarding the Comstock Laws?
6. What did Griswald vs. Connecticut do for women?
7. What was the Woman Rebel and what issues did it addres?
8. What was the American Birth Control League? Who founded it and for what purpose?
9. Why weren't women allowed to know about their own bodies? Forms of birthcontrol? The need for medical care?
10. When was the first oral birth control used and who developed it? The Pill?
11. How is the pill now different from when it was first made?
12. What was the problem with estrogen using pills?
13. What is an IUD? Why is it so widely used and why isn't it in the U.S.?
14. Identify:
Marie Stewart
Sojourner Truth
Margaret Sanger
Frank Colton
Carl Djerassi
Envoid
Birth control
Gregory Pincus

16. Discuss life for women in America before WWI in the U.S.? During WWI? After?
17. How was WWI different from other wars? What role did women play? Discuss jobs, wages and family for women during WWI. What happened to women workers after men came home from the war?
18. What was the Roaring 20s?
19. How had life and values changed for and toward women?
20. What were 'Victorian Values'?
21. Discuss jazz, speakeasies and prohibition.
22. Who were flappers? How were they viewed and why? What kinds of social activities, dancing and interests did these women have?
23. What is a middle class? Why is it important? What kinds of industries were created because of a middle class? What values changed?
24. How did the Industrial Revolution influence life in America? For women?
25. Discuss early captialism: Who were the Robber Barons? Why were they important? What industries did they dominate?
26. Why were factories and industry important? How did they change urban and rural areas? How did these businesses and early capitalism impact Americans? The American family? Women?
27. What was the Great Depression and when did it happen? How had the U.S. been able to avoid it for so long? Discuss the Stock Market Crash and Dust Bowl.
28. What did FDR do to help in the depression? How were families and women impacted because of the depression?
29. Discuss WWII. Who were the Axis and Allied Powers? How was this war different from previous wars? What happened to women in war and at home? What kinds of opporunities did they have?
30. How did the U.S. finally become invovlved in WWII? Why so late? What was D-Day? Normandy? How did the change the tide of the war?
31. What was the Holocaust? How many Jews in Europe were murdered because of this? What was the death toll of WWII?
32. How did WWII change the lives of American women? Why were they not willing to givve up what they had gained in the war?
33. What happened to Europe, Germany and the Allied countries after WWII? Where did the treaty talks occurr for WWII? How did this affect relations globally?
34. What is the Cold War? Discuss Soviet and U.S. relations. How did this influence the U.S., culture and lives of women?
35. Identify:
Iron Curtain
Eastern Bloc
Cold War
Gorbachev
Yeltzin
Thatcher
Reagan
The Wall
East Germany
West Germany
Martin Luther King
Malcolm X
Simone de Beauvior
Mother Theresa
Nelson Mandela

36. What was the Civil Rights Movement? Why is it important? How did it influence women in the U.S.? What areas of life did it seek to change?
37. What was segregation? What kinds of laws prevented blacks from voting? What is Jim Crow? Discuss conditions in schools, public transport etc. (especially in the South) for blacks. How was it even more difficult for black women?
39. Discuss minority women in the U.S. What special challenges did they face? How was it similiar or different to 'white' women?
40. What is Modern Feminism? Discuss the different kinds of feminism in the U.S.
41. What gains or losses have women in the U.S. experienced in the 21st century?

GRADES

The Blod will not upload the Spread Sheet so grades will be posted in CLASS by Thursday, March 11th.

Presentation of FINAL

Here is the order we will go in. WE WILL START ON TIME. You will not be allowed to exceed 2 minutes. IF you MISS your day, that is a ZERO (0) grade.

As there are only 2 minutes, you must be prepared to got at any time:

Womens Hist 9


Monday 3/15:
Yadegar, Michelle
Valle, Cecilia A
Turner, Michelle R
Szeto, Stephanie
Sutherlin, Nicole E
Suri, Sid M
Soutar, Amy D
Smith, Danae E
Satariano, Virginia A
Sanchez, Riane A
Salud, Camille R
Rodgers, Andrew A
Ramirez, Yazmin T
Ramans, Mercedes
Rajkumar, Parvathi
Phillips, Courtney E
Pangborn, Brittney N
Pakozdi, Marialena
Newhall, Miyuki H

Tuesday 3/16:
Moreno, Jennifer
Mitchler, Christina R
Martins, Kazue
Martinez, Kimberly D
Mancilla, Daycy E
Magallanes, Sandra C
Lopez, Bianca M
Lerwill, Nichole A
Lee, Amanda B
Johnson, Nichole T
Hwang, Gina
Hurd, Jaya
Howard, Rachael L
Freitas, Ashley E
Flaherty, Jamie
Duong, Amy
Desilva, Erikka E
Del Castillo, Cris

Wednesday 3/17:
Dela Cruz, Kenn L
Chon, Milam
Ceniceros, Melissa
Cavalero, Craig M
Cardenas, Brittany D
Calhoun, Robert
Brasil, Megan
Baez, Berenice K
Arroyo, Veronica
Arroyo, Sandra M

THURSDAY 3/18: MIDTERM