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NameDateCultural Literacy Worksheet: Women’s Movement. Cultural literacy is familiarity with and ability to understand the idioms, allusions, and informal content that create and constitute a culture. Here is a short reading from The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Hirsch, E.D., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002). Please answer the accompanying questions.Women’s Movement A movement to secure legal, economic and social equality for women, also called the feminist movement. It has its roots in the nineteenth-century women’s movement, which sought, among other things, to secure property rights and suffrage for women. The modern feminist movement, often said to have been galvanized by the publication of Betty Friedan’s book The Feminine Mystique, began in the 1960s and advocated equal pay for equal work, improved day care arrangements, and preservation of abortion rights.What is the women’s movement?What is another name for the women’s movement?In what does the modern women’s movement have its roots?What did the women’s movement in the nineteenth century seek?What is said to have galvanized the modern feminist movement?When did the modern feminist movement begin?What does the modern feminist movement advocate? ................
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