Josephine Butler: Faith and women's rights

Josephine Butler and women's rights

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What religion was Josephine Butler?

• Christian (Anglican)

• Christian (Methodist)

• Christian (Roman Catholic)

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What personal tragedy did she and her husband suffer?

• The husband died

• Their little daughter died

• Josephine Baker became very ill after giving birth

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What was unusual about a middle class woman working with working class women?

• Most women of her class were too busy

• Most women of her class were too involved in their homes to do any work outside

• People were not supposed to become friends with people outside their own social class

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What Act was she involved in campaigning against?

• Contagious Infections Act

• Contagious Diseases Act

• Infectious Diseases Act

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What did this act allow the police to do? Click all that apply

• Arrest working class women without a warrant

• Force women to have internal examinations

• Lock them up in hospitals

• Refuse to let them out until they were no longer infectious

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What was Josephine Butler's motivation? Tick all that apply

• Money

• Power

• Compassion

• Christianity

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Josephine Butler believed in the power of ------- and spent hours every day in---------(same word).

• Cleaning

• Prayer

• Singing

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Josephine Butler made it into a BBC list of the most important British women in history

• True

• False

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Josephine Butler appears in several stained glass windows in Anglican Churches

• True

• False

Womanhood Window

Douglas Strachan (1875-1850)

1944

All Saints, Jesus Lane, Cambridge