IB History Feminism in the USA Key Definitions

The deliberate, non-violent refusal to obey unjust laws or government demands, as a form of political protest. Gandhi's civil disobedience campaigns (1930-1934) involved mass law-breaking, including the Salt March, refusal to pay taxes, and boycotts of British goods and institutions.

The granting of the right to vote. In the context of the suffrage movement, it refers to extending voting rights to women. In the Canadian Indigenous context, it had a different meaning: the process by which an Indigenous person gave up their legal status and rights as an Indigenous person in exchange for Canadian citizenship.

A federal law that made it illegal for creditors to discriminate on the basis of sex or marital status. It gave women the legal right to apply for credit cards, mortgages, and loans in their own names, without requiring a male co-signer.

The approach of working within existing political and legal systems to achieve gender equality through legislation, litigation, and lobbying.

The position that patriarchy is the root cause of women's oppression and that the entire social system, not just laws, needs to be transformed in order to achieve genuine equality.