Choose one thing from your list of three things you wanted to find out more about concerning topics raised in this article and find out more about it.
In the comments below, indicate:
- your original question
- the method you used to find out more (google, library databases, a book, asked a friend, etc)
- one thing you learned that you didn't know before
- one more thing that you would like to know more about based on the research you've done so far
- an idea of how you could find out more (a different research strategy)
To what extent was the M.R.S degree valued? After more research on google over many websites, I have learned women were often rushed into marriage around the age of 20. Many women in college valued a husband more than a college degree due to enormous pressure from society and family. This reminds me of Chinese backgrounds where we would get married early as well, is it due to similar reasons? More research can be done on this topic if given a primary source, like a journal of a women during this time. One thing I would like to know more about is if this situation is the same globally.
ReplyDeleteWhy did women in Sweden have a lot more freedom? After researching the topic on google, I found out that feminism started as early as the 17th century. It was only till the 18th century that it was openly spoke about in public debate and literature. The first women's magazine was started in 1859 and the women's organized movement begun around 1873 with the creation of the Married Woman's Property Rights Association. And in 1921, women's suffrage was finally introduced and women were awarded equal rights as male citizens. Compared to the U.S, Sweden has been fighting a lot longer for equal rights for women. I would like to know more about the opposition and struggles the women had to face in Sweden and if it was the same as the U.S. I would say research of early literature about feminism would give more insight on the subject.
ReplyDeleteWhat were the Supreme Court cases that R.B.G argued for or was involved in? The cases were Reed v. Reed, Frontiero v. Richardson, Weinberger v. Wiesenfield, Turner v. Dept. of Employment Security, and General Electric Co. v. Gilbert. I used google to find the names of these cases and if I want to know more details I would search for more information in a library database. I think a book would be useful. I learned that there were more cases she was involved in but these were the landmark ones. I would like to learn more about the people who supported and fought alongside her during these cases.
ReplyDeleteWhat were some of the awards Gloria Steinem won? I googled the awards she won and two of them are the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the highest award a U.S. civilian can earn, and also Glamour magazine's "The 75 Most Important Women of the Past 75 Years" award. I learned about the Presidential Medal of Freedom and who it can be awarded to, such as civilians and also military personnel. I have never heard of this award before and it was interesting to see who has won it in previous years. Steinem has won many different awards from Ms. magazine and knowing that, I would like to know more about her works and publications inside of the magazine. In order to find her articles in Ms. magazine, research could be done in a library or on databases.
ReplyDeleteThrough my own personal research I found that the book "Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism" by Amy Erdman Farrell is regarded as an informative source on the magazine's history and agenda and might be something you would like to look into.
Delete"There was no better way to raise pay for women in nursing than to get men to do it." -R.B.G
ReplyDeleteHow did justice Ginsburg argue that omitting males from female centered jobs hurt the whole family? I was unable to find the exact court case but i researched Frontiero v. Richardson: A married woman Air Force officer (hereafter appellant) sought increased benefits for her husband as a "dependent" under 37 U.S.C. §§ 401 403, and 10 U.S.C. §§ 1072 1076. In which the justice helped Frontiero gains equal benefits for the female serviceman's husband.I used google and the law library at Cornell to assist my research; prior to researching into the question, i did not know that male servicemen could provide full benefits for their spouses, but female servicewomen could not provide the same befits for their husbands if they claimed them as dependents. one more thing i would like to know about my research is: what benefits are individuals entitled to today in the armed forces. i believe jstor can help me further.
Ginsburg mentions her husband Marty a lot through the article, so I wanted to know how he was doing and what he accomplished after he finished school. After googling his name, I found a NYTimes article which turned out to be an epitaph of Martin Ginsburg, which was a little upsetting. After he graduated, he went on to work at law firms and teach at NYU, so I found that he was pretty successful. Justice Ginsburg also talked about how he made working at the Supreme Court not as bad, that he was "a regulator contributor to the lighter side of the Supreme Court." I found it great that she still talks about how he was such a positive influence in her life after all these years. I would like to know if Justice Ginsburg's husband had any influence on any of her cases in the Supreme Court. I may have to check some interviews and what not as this isn't exactly a scholarly topic to research.
ReplyDeleteWhy did the US government carry out forced sterilizations of non-white women? Through the search engine, Google, I learned that women, particularly blacks and Latinas, were sterilized en masse. From 1909 to 1979, 20,000 black and Latina women were sterilized without their consent. It was believed that these women served as bad parents and burdens to the American population. I would like to how these women were coerced into sterilization and which methods were used. Another source that could be used to find out more information is a journal written by women who were sterilized under these conditions.
ReplyDeleteHow did the public react to the appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female justice? After googling Sandra Day O'Connor, I found out that there were numerous groups opposed to her nomination as justice such as pro-life and religious groups. I also learned that she received 60,000 letters from the public during her first year as justice which was the most one has ever received. I would like to know the impact Connor had during her career as a justice. An alternative way of conducting research for this topic would definitely be looking at books or other written sources that documents her cases.
ReplyDelete"What other jobs R.B.G worked for that made her feel like she was discriminated against because she is a woman?" I googled her bibliography and find out that worked in a social security office when she arrived in Fort Sill. After she became pregnant with her first child, she informed her superior about it because of that she was demoted three levels in pay. I think going to the library to research about her also works. What I find interesting is that people would deduct a woman's pay if she became pregnant. I learn that it was really hard for her to find work in law firms even as a law clerk. I would like to learn more about her other cases that involves with gender equality.
ReplyDeleteHow was it that the victims of forced sterilization discovered what was done to them?
ReplyDeleteI googled "sterilization in the 1900s, found a link on the abcnewsgo.com site where an account from one of the victims told her story. While it was brief, it answer my question. In her case, she was sterilized to due to her young age for her first pregnancy, despite the fact that she was raped. It wasn't until years later when she was attempting to start a family with her husband that she discovered why she couldn't conceive and what was done to her. One thing I would like to know is how it is the the hospitals and government legally justified these series of crimes?
Why did women go to college just to find a husband?
ReplyDeleteGoogled "why did women go to college just to find husbands 1900's." It seems that one sources says that sexism was still very much alive at the time and women returned back to the idea that being a housewife was fine, and college was a perfect way to find an intelligent husband with potential. I would like to know how it transitioned from women fighting to keep and get jobs to back to being fine with staying back at home. Another source could be peer reviewed texts that are linked to primary sources within the women movement.
How did she get the nickname "Notorious RBG" ? I Googled the question. A few articles came up that explained it was due to a tumblr blog by the same name. Created by Shawna Klusnik,it features memes of the Supreme Court justices, tshirts, news articles, and other merchandise. It is estimated that it was done after the Voting Rights Act case. I've never heard of that case before, but the article and video-interview (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/31/notorious-rbg_n_5638254.html) of Ruth about her nickname made me ask, "What was so astounding about that case, for Shawna to have made such a comparison? In several articles she is called, " a dissenter." Why? What about the social climate of the time created a connection in her mind between a heavy set, black, male rapper, and a small, elderly white woman supreme court justice? Looking for a time of the year the case was done, the blog created, and comparing them to current events of life of Biggie Smalls at the time might answer that. A time-line of the biggest events of the year(s) either by google search or an almanac. Video would probably give me the best perception of the social climate since the comparison of the 2 characters suggest something more abstract than a straight facts comparison, outside the fact they're both from Brooklyn, NY.
ReplyDeleteThe blog idea also adds on to how our access of information and changes in media/technology plays a role in politics.
What did Gloria Steinem experience while working at the Playboy Club? I googled Gloria Steinem and playboy. An article written by Nicolaus Mills goes on to explain the treatment of Steinem as well as the other bunnies in the Club. I learned that the bunnies had to pay for the upkeep of their costumes and were expected to pay and wear fake eyelashes on the job. She was only allowed to entertain Number One Keyholders. The club also took 50% of the first thirty dollars in tips they received. She works to exploit men's sexual ideals of women. I would like to know how this experience shaped her career as an activist. One way I could achieve this is by reading the article "A Bunny's Tale" and by watching the documentary on it.
DeleteWhat did Gloria Steinem experience while working at the Playboy Club? I googled Gloria Steinem and playboy. An article written by Nicolaus Mills goes on to explain the treatment of Steinem as well as the other bunnies in the Club. I learned that the bunnies had to pay for the upkeep of their costumes and were expected to pay and wear fake eyelashes on the job. She was only allowed to entertain Number One Keyholders. The club also took 50% of the first thirty dollars in tips they received. She works to exploit men's sexual ideals of women. I would like to know how this experience shaped her career as an activist. One way I could achieve this is by reading the article "A Bunny's Tale" and by watching the documentary on it.
ReplyDeleteMy main question was how Ruth Bader Ginsburg ended up becoming a justice considering only four woman have been able to do this, and only recently at that. I found out that Ginsburg, like was briefly mentioned, married a law student and went to a law school. But, I found out that not only did she marry a law student while being a law student herself, she did this while juggling classes, being a wife, raising a child, AND being apart of the Harvard Law Review. In a place where the odds were against her, she went above and beyond, and went even further by going the ever lasting fight for equality for men and women. She transferred from Harvard to Columbia, and then became a Clerk for the US District Judge before she starting teaching at Harvard and Columbia.
ReplyDeleteLater, from all of her amazing accomplishments in law and for the fights she lead for equality, she was personally appointed by a President as a Justice. Basically, she's lived a pretty amazing life.
As Robyn stated, my question is how did you get the nickname "Notorious RBJ l" after the rapper "Notorious B.I.G?" I used Google search engine and found that it was a blogger who came up with the nickname. I learned that she acutely had no idea who Biggie was until her law clerks explained to her where the nickname stemmed from. I also learned that she acreally likes the nickname. I'd like to know if she likes it because its origins are from the rapper himself or just from the fact that notorious is a great into for a nickname given. I'd probably find out more in the the hunter database, a journal or a journal entry.
ReplyDeleteMy question is, why did women go to college in search of a husband? To find out more information I searched up my question on google. I learned that this was the culture in the United States throughout the 1950's. The marriage rate in the United States was at an all time high, and it was common to see couples get married straight out of high school or while they are in college. I would like to know the number of women that went to college during the 1950's an how many of them graduated with a degree. I could find out more about this by using google, or finding an academic journal or article that describes the life of women throughout the 1950's.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: What was the Gandian movement?
ReplyDeleteMethod of Research: academic search engine /aggregator jstore
Article: Brian Palmer, Gandhian
Movement:Politics and the Gandhian
Movement(pg32-34)
Something Noted and Discovered: The Gandhian Movement was considered a decentralized social activist movement for freedom and unification of society which attempted to combat India's westernization of consumerism to a degree in an attempt to retain traditional social values and more local independence.
More to Learn: What were the key female figures of this movement?
Research strategy: use google to pull up specific names involved in the movement and continue to use a academic search engine for primary sources.
My original question was what exactly did Louisiana's "head and master rule" allow? Using Google and Wikipedia, I learned that head and master laws allowed "a husband to have final say regarding all household decisions and jointly owned property without his wife's knowledge or consent." I learned of a case in which a man accused of molesting his daughter mortgaged his house, without his wife's knowledge although she had fully paid for the house, in order to pay for a lawyer.
ReplyDeleteI would like to know if women in Louisiana had challenged these laws before this final court case that established the law as unconstitutional. In order to find out more, I would use online academic databases such as Academic Search Complete and read scholarly journals.
My original question was: Were African American women only targeted for sterilization after having their third child or were all women sterilized after their third child? In order to find more about this question, I Googled, “Sterilization after third child in the 1950s,” and found a website called Mississippi Appendectomy. One thing I learned from this research was that white individuals that were extremely racist and prejudice against blacks would go to any length in having little to no African Americans. According to the Louisiana judge Leander Perez, the only and best way to hate a black individual was to hate him or her before he or she was born. Essentially, family planning was targeting African American women through contraceptives and sterilization. All of this was to further reduce the number of African Americans in the United States. One thing from this that I would like to more about, since it doesn’t clearly state, would be the reaction from the general public, specifically the African American activist groups or the feminist groups. A way for me to find more information about this specific topic would be to either Google Scholar the information or to use JSTOR as a different research strategy.
ReplyDeleteOne of my questions was why did RBG want to practice the same profession as her husband? From what I knew about her, she was a strong woman who asserted her independence and did not seem like the type of woman to conform to what her husband wanted. I found my answer while reading her book The Notorious RBG and found out the reason she wanted the same profession as her husband was because she knew greater opportunity would be before her if she did so. She said that she believed that if she was in the same profession as her husband, "two heads would be better than one." From there I started thinking more about her life and wanted to know still why her and her husband never actually practiced together if that was her reasoning. I hope to find my answer in her biography and if not in more interviews.
ReplyDeleteMy question is: was it more difficult for Sandra Day O'Connor to become a Supreme Court Justice? When researching this on Googlei found that it was similarly difficult because of the times they were in. O'Connor worked for thirty years to finally become a justice. This was due to the fact that as we knew it was nearly impossible to find a job in law as a woman and O'Connor worked for free for many years to attempt and get experience in the field rather than settling for being a secretary. She than opened her own law office with another man which took a large amount of persuasion and working up from here was never easy. Saying her journey was easy would be completely wrong but what Ginsburg went through seams a little more difficult with all the work from school to family things.
ReplyDeleteThis is Ben Cassidy that wrote this not sure what happened.
DeleteMy question was Why was Cornell known as the school for parents who wanted their daughters to find a man? I asked my friend and he told this was because Cornell's student ratios having more males than female students and thus making it easier for girls to find a husband also since it was a private university most people there were well off. One thing I learned is that regardless of time parents want their daughters to marry early. One thing I would to like learn about is were other private universities known for girls to find husbands as well or was it only Cornell? I could use google scholar or Jstor to find this information out.
DeleteMy question is: Why did Gloria Steinem work the a playboy club and more information about it? I googled this and found that she went undercover to work there and show that it isnt as glamorous as everyone thinks, she just went to prove a point, and the only way she could prove this was by being there herself. She wanted to show how women were basically being sexually exploited while serving men. I'd like to know more about her personal experience with this, and I could find this by looking for more articles from her.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: What was the “head and master rule”?
ReplyDeleteMethod: Google
Learned: The head and master rule gave the husband the right to have the final say over his family.
More to learn: I would like to learn more about the Supreme Case, and what lead to the striking down of the ruling.
Different strategy: Look at primary or secondary documents from that time period.
What strategies did the government utilize in order to manipulate women into non-consented sterilization procedures? Were they lied to, or was it merely by (physical/mental manipulative) force? Through some brief research via Google, I found that the government targeted minorities, the handicapped (physical/mental) and those of low economic status for sterilization. I also found sources that explained most were not lied to, but it was merely by force- several cases read that after experiences of rape, women went to social workers for justice and were labeled promiscuous and irresponsible- resulting in being sent to a hospital for compulsory sterilization. I was pretty surprised that I did not come across any first hand accounts of being lied to- perhaps because the government already knew this method of population control and eugenics as a whole were wrong. What I would like to know is the progress of the reparation bill North Carolina State Rep. Larry Womble is crafting in order to make amends with the thousands of women that were more or less, abused. I can find out more through online databases and news articles.
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