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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lesson could girls not help but learn in college between 1945 and 1960?

2. What does Parsons find in sexual segregation?

3. Why do women participate in politics according to "Women's Home Companion" September 1955?

4. What is unlikely to happen without education?

5. What was the new sexual problem in marriages?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is a definitive knowledge of self needed to mature?

2. What was the problem with the young women of this age group?

3. What did the men do to defy the "masculine mystique"?

4. What is the difference in the male and female roles?

5. How did American women learn how to free themselves by speaking out for the slaves?

6. In what way did society have to be restructured regarding sexuality?

7. What kinds of conventional arrangements were made between women to maintain careers while there was a war?

8. What is considered the feminine role in education?

9. How was Margaret Mead exempt from the lack of fulfillment that most women felt?

10. How did the image of women change from the 1930's-50's?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is education integral to the destruction of the feminine mystique? What role does education play in the growing up of American women? How does this benefit America at the macro level? At the micro level? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

How did Mrs. Friedan practice what she preached? How was she an equal victim of the discrimination against women, and what private battles did she herself face in the years following the publishing of the "Feminine Mystique"?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the image of the corporate woman. What kind of person is she? How does a woman have to behave in order to maintain her position of social stature? How are these kinds of women portrayed in Hollywood? Where else are there images of corporate women?

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