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According to modern media advertising archetypes, which of the following best represents the difference between men and women?
Choose one answer.
a. Men are naturally strong, ambitious, and like to sexually dominate women. Women are naturally weaker, more passive, and naturally prefer to be sexually dominated by men.
b. Women are smarter and more emotional than men.
c. Men are smarter and more emotional than women.
d. Men and women have little in common in their desires for political and economic success.
e. None of the above
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Question 2
According to the feminist editors, writers, and bloggers represented on the “Ms. Magazine at 40: The Future of Feminism” panel, which of the following is the most representative of public attitudes towards feminism over the last several decades?
Choose one answer.
a. It is increasingly hard for feminists to find support among the public.
b. There are fewer outlets for feminist beliefs and actions because of lack of public interest.
c. More of the public believes in equal rights and opportunities for women, even if they don’t identify as feminists or explicitly support feminist causes.
d. The public believes that feminism has done more harm than good over the last several decades.
e. The public believes that feminists of older and younger generations do not support each other’s efforts and goals.
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Question 3
In general, which of the following best characterizes progress in gender equity in the U.S. workforce?
Choose one answer.
a. Women have made large gains, but still make less money and hold lower status jobs than men, even when controlling for education and experience.
b. Women have achieved equality with men in the U.S. workforce.
c. Women have surpassed men’s wages in jobs, even when controlling for education and experience.
d. There has been no change in wages and job status among men and women for several decades.
e. Men, on average, make 50 percent more than women, even when controlling for education, despite feminism’s best efforts over the last several decades.
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Question 4
Roughly what percentage of the U.S. Congress and House of Representatives has been made up of women at any one time over the last 20 years?
Choose one answer.
a. Less than 5 percent
b. Between 10 and 17 percent
c. Between 20 and 40 percent
d. About 50 percent
e. Significantly more than 50 percent
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Question 5
What do recent examinations of efforts of women to balance work and family find?
Choose one answer.
a. Women finally make more money than men.
b. Men today do as much housework as women.
c. Even though more women are working than at any time in the nation’s history, they still are primarily responsible for the housework.
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
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Question 6
What is the difference between gender identity and sexual orientation?
Choose one answer.
a. Gender identity is one’s internal sense of being a man or a woman, regardless of biological sex. Sexual orientation is one’s sexual attraction to others, who may be of the opposite sex, the same sex, or either sex.
b. Sexual orientation is a one’s internal sense of being a man or a woman, regardless of biological sex. Gender identity is one’s sexual attraction to others, who may be of the opposite sex, the same sex, or either sex.
c. Gender identity is how other people perceive one’s presentation as a man or a woman. Sexual orientation indicates whether someone is sexually active or not.
d. Gender identity is always defined by one’s biological sex—being a man or a women. Sexual orientation measures attraction toward both sexes.
e. None of the above
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Question 7
Which of the following areas has been the focus of feminist efforts to promote gender equity?
Choose one answer.
a. Sports and athletics
b. Education
c. Politics
d. Medicine
e. All of the above
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Question 8
Which of the following best defines feminism as generally agreed upon by feminist activists, writers, and philosophers of different eras and schools of thought?
Choose one answer.
a. It is a belief that justice requires equal rights for women and the end of sexism in all forms.
b. It is a belief that women are superior to men and thus deserve more political and economic advantages.
c. It is strictly a political movement in the United States and European democracies.
d. It is a uniform school of thought that unites women of all races, classes, and generations.
e. It is a political movement meant to conflict with men’s economic and political rights.
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Question 9
Which of the following best defines feminist belief in the context of American politics?
Choose one answer.
a. It is a shared belief among women of various races and income levels that they deserve more political rights than they have received throughout American political history.
b. It is a belief that oppression against women exists and that such oppression is unjust.
c. It is a belief that men and women should actively participate in political movements that work against the oppression of women.
d. It is defined by political and economic efforts to advantage women over men.
e. It is a leftist political philosophy adopted by a small group of women in the United States and Europe.
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Question 10
Which of the following is a common but erroneous stereotype of feminism held by some citizens in the early days of the feminist movement and continuing through today?
Choose one answer.
a. Feminism is made up of women who dislike men.
b. Feminism is populated by women who believe that men are inferior.
c. Feminism is only concerned with Caucasian women.
d. Women who identify as feminists are unlikely to become wives and mothers.
e. All of the above
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Question 11
Which of the following is a common critique of how the media portrays gender in political campaigns in the U.S.?
Choose one answer.
a. Female candidates are portrayed as more masculine than they really are in political campaign coverage in the U.S.
b. Compared to male candidates, female candidates’ physical appearance and clothing choices are more likely to be discussed in political campaign coverage in the U.S.
c. Compared to male candidates, female candidates are more likely to be sexualized in political campaign coverage in the U.S.
d. Both B and C
e. All of the above
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Question 12
Which of the following is a common media stereotype of feminist activists today?
Choose one answer.
a. Feminist activists tend to dislike men.
b. Feminist activists tend to believe that men are inferior to them.
c. Feminist activists are only concerned with middle- and upper-class Caucasian women.
d. Feminist activists are unlikely to become wives and mothers.
e. All of the above
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Question 13
Which of the following is NOT a branch of feminist epistemology?
Choose one answer.
a. Feminist Standpoint Theory
b. Feminist Postmodernism
c. Feminist Empiricism
d. All of the above are branches of feminist epistemology
e. None of the above are branches of feminist epistemology
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Question 14
Which of the following is true about gender identity?
Choose one answer.
a. A biological male will always identify as a boy or man.
b. A biological female will always identify as a girl or woman.
c. Gender identity is one’s internal sense of being a man or a woman, regardless of biological sex.
d. Gender identity and sexual identity are the same thing.
e. None of the above
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Question 15
Which of the following issues regarding gender equity was a primary goal of First Wave feminists?
Choose one answer.
a. Equal pay
b. Voting rights
c. Reproductive rights
d. Legal rights
e. None of the above
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Question 16
Which of the following political and cultural issues are of interest to feminism?
Choose one answer.
a. Human trafficking
b. Racial issues
c. Sexuality issues
d. Higher education issues
e. All of the above
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Question 17
Which of the following questions produces different responses and even disagreement among feminists?
Choose one answer.
a. What would count as (full) justice for women?
b. What is the nature of the wrong that feminism seeks to address?
c. Have women been denied equal respect for their biological differences?
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
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Question 18
Which of the following statements is true about Internet blogs as a major source of feminist writing in the twenty-first century?
Choose one answer.
a. There is not much diversity among different schools of feminism on the Web.
b. Only women writers blog about feminist issues on the Web.
c. There is a great deal of diversity among different schools of feminism on the Web.
d. Both A and B
e. None of the above
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Question 19
In the “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the main character is convinced that there is something wrong with her, and grows to resent her husband’s insistence that she is suffering from “nervous depression” and must rest in bed all of the time. What is the primary feminist sentiment being expressed here?
Choose one answer.
a. Many women need more activity and stimulation in their lives, not less.
b. Psychological issues, like those the main character experiences, are best served by rest and medical attention.
c. The medical establishment is to blame for women who experience psychological issues like those that the main character experiences.
d. Many women who feel they aren’t living up to their potential are actually mentally ill.
e. None of the above
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Question 20
In which of the following readings do you find concerns about women’s right to own property?
Choose one answer.
a. Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex”
b. Betty Friedan’s “Feminine Mystique”
c. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony’s “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions”
d. Emma Goldman’s writings on anarchism
e. Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”
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Question 21
John Stuart Mill, writing in the early years of First Wave feminism, maintained that because of patriarchal laws and conventions, the true nature of women couldn’t be known. Which of the following statements best describes Mill’s argument?
Choose one answer.
a. Men define women, and that is counterproductive to the economic well-being of society.
b. Women are oppressed by political and economic institutions.
c. The character of women in society has been primarily shaped and defined by men, but for women and the culture to flourish, women must be free to shape and define themselves.
d. Women are more superficial than men and thus prone to being subordinated.
e. All of the above
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Question 22
What was the primary argument of early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft?
Choose one answer.
a. Women and men should have equal voting rights.
b. Women and men should be equally represented in government.
c. Women deserve educational opportunities similar to men, in order to be productive citizens, wives, and mothers.
d. Politicians should work toward making it so more women are permitted in higher status jobs.
e. More women should join feminist movements.
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Question 23
Which of the following best characterizes anarchist feminism?
Choose one answer.
a. Belief that the state oppresses women
b. Belief that the economic system oppresses women
c. Belief that the state should be abolished
d. Belief that the capitalist system should be abolished
e. Belief that struggle against sexism and the patriarchy is an essential part of fighting class and state oppression
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Question 24
Which of the following is NOT true of Sojourner Truth?
Choose one answer.
a. She was born into slavery and escaped.
b. She secured land rights for former slaves after the Civil War.
c. She advocated for abolitionism.
d. She advocated for women’s rights.
e. All of the above are true.
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Question 25
Which of the following philosophies of thought did Emma Goldman bring to the feminist movement?
Choose one answer.
a. Socialism
b. Libertarianism
c. Anarchism
d. Communism
e. Marxism
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Question 26
Which of the following symbols or personalities most represented working women during World War II?
Choose one answer.
a. Betty Friedan
b. Rosie the Riveter
c. Emma Goldman
d. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
e. Simone de Beauvoir
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Question 27
Which of the following was NOT an issue addressed by First Wave feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?
Choose one answer.
a. Right to own property
b. Education
c. Suffrage
d. Reproductive rights
e. All of these were issues addressed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
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Question 28
Which wave of feminism is most associated with women obtaining the right to vote in the United States?
Choose one answer.
a. First Wave
b. Second Wave
c. Third Wave
d. Both B and C
e. None of the above
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Question 29
In which wave of feminism did the mantra that “the personal is political” become integral to the movement?
Choose one answer.
a. First Wave
b. Second Wave
c. Third Wave
d. Both A and C
e. None of the above
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Question 30
When Second Wave feminists questioned the public/private split in women’s lives, which of the following best characterizes their concerns?
Choose one answer.
a. Primary responsibility for housework and raising children relegates women to the home, and psychologically denies them full personhood and citizenship in the public sphere.
b. Because women are confined to the home, they are not interested in developing the skills necessary to participate in public life.
c. Women’s roles as mothers and housekeepers prevent them from running for political office.
d. Women shouldn’t have to play an important role in housekeeping and raising children.
e. None of the above
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Question 31
Which of following is NOT a recommendation from Linda Hirshman’s “America’s Stay-at-Home Feminists” article?
Choose one answer.
a. Women should marry men who make less than they do.
b. Women should go to college and avoid liberal arts degrees.
c. Women should not get married.
d. Women should only have one child at the most.
e. All of the above are recommendations from Linda Hirshman.
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Question 32
Which of the following best characterizes Betty Friedan’s role in Second Wave feminism?
Choose one answer.
a. Friedan urged housewives to divorce and to participate in the professional workplace.
b. Friedan was a leading advocate of preventing sexual harassment in the workplace.
c. Friedan wanted more women to run for Congress.
d. Friedan urged women to reconsider the role of housewife, and demanded greater opportunities for women to enter the workforce
e. Friedan believed that men should stay home and take care of children while women worked outside the home.
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Question 33
Which of the following best characterizes the reproductive rights granted to women by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision?
Choose one answer.
a. A woman can only terminate a pregnancy if the pregnancy is a result of a sexual assault.
b. A woman’s right to privacy is exceeded by a fetus’s right to life, and thus abortion is always unconstitutional.
c. A woman, with her doctor, can choose abortion in earlier months of pregnancy without legal restriction, and in later months with restrictions, based on the right to privacy.
d. A woman can have an abortion at any stage in the pregnancy without consulting a doctor.
e. None of the above
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Question 34
Which of the following best describes the Equal Rights Amendment?
Choose one answer.
a. It requires that the U.S. Constitution be applied equally to men and women.
b. It requires that women be given special constitutional considerations.
c. It requires that men be given special constitutional considerations.
d. It requires a tax increase to enforce it.
e. None of the above
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Question 35
Which of the following best describes the major concerns of Second Wave feminists?
Choose one answer.
a. Focus on voting rights and the right to own property
b. Focus on gender identity and sexuality issues
c. Focus on workplace equity and class-related issues
d. Focus on legal equity
e. Focus on sexual harassment issues
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Question 36
Which of the following best represents Simone de Beauvoir’s arguments in “The Second Sex”?
Choose one answer.
a. Simone de Beauvoir argues that women should find work outside the house.
b. Simone de Beauvoir argues that a woman should be able to terminate her pregnancy at any time.
c. Simone de Beauvoir argues that women have historically been defined as the “other” sex, a deviation from the “normal” male.
d. Simone de Beauvoir argues against sexual harassment in the workplace.
e. All of the above
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Question 37
Which of the following best represents the principal mission of the National Organization of Women?
Choose one answer.
a. To encourage women to prioritize feminist issues over economic issues when they vote
b. To argue for policies that benefit women at the expense of men
c. To participate in the political process in a way that promotes gender equality
d. To raise money for anti-war activities and conferences
e. All of the above
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Question 38
Which of the following is NOT true about the Equal Rights Amendment?
Choose one answer.
a. It asks that the U.S. Constitution be applied equally to men and women.
b. It has never been ratified.
c. Alice Paul was instrumental in its development.
d. It was ratified in 1966.
e. There are still activists working to get it passed.
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Question 39
Which of the following is NOT true of Betty Friedan’s beliefs about Sigmund Freud’s role in women’s oppression?
Choose one answer.
a. She believed that Freud convinced men and women that women were prone to depression and hysteria because of their reproductive organs.
b. She believed that all of Freud’s writings and influence should be denounced by American society.
c. She believed that Freud’s work made women reluctant to acknowledge their sexuality to themselves and others.
d. She believed that Freud’s work and theories created stereotypes of women that worked against them in the professional workforce.
e. All of the above are true.
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Question 40
Which of the following is NOT true of Simone de Beauvoir’s influence on Second Wave feminism?
Choose one answer.
a. She challenged widespread acceptance of patriarchal political practices.
b. She suggested that men had defined women as “other,” and thus put a shroud of mystery around them that worked against treating women as full human beings.
c. She suggested that Western philosophy was dominated by patriarchal beliefs that oppressed women.
d. She challenged existing medical practices that oppressed women.
e. All of the above are true.
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Question 41
Which of the following is the primary basis for Hanna Rosin’s argument in “The End of the Men”?
Choose one answer.
a. Women today make more money than men.
b. Women today make up a majority of students in higher education, and many professional, white-collar jobs today are dominated by women.
c. A majority of American women do not desire children in their future.
d. A majority of American men do not desire children in their future.
e. Women are no longer interested in long-term relationships with men.
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Question 42
Which of the following is true of Simone de Beauvoir?
Choose one answer.
a. Her contention that a woman’s sexuality is essential to her being was met with widespread social acceptance.
b. She argued that the fact that men defined women’s sense of self in society was a principal source of their oppression.
c. Her writings were well understood by Americans when they first came out, and she was a popular figure in U.S. politics.
d. She believed that men were inferior to women in politics and philosophy.
e. She refuted many of her feminist beliefs in her later years.
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Question 43
Which of the following rights serves as the primary foundation of Supreme Court rulings permitting a limited right to abortion in the U.S.?
Choose one answer.
a. Freedom of Speech
b. Freedom of Religion
c. Right to Privacy
d. Freedom of Assembly
e. None of the above
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Question 44
Which of the following statements is NOT true about public attitudes toward abortion in contemporary U.S. politics?
Choose one answer.
a. The public increasingly believes that abortion should be legal but rare, and thus more restrictions on abortion have been legislated in many states in the last two decades.
b. The Republican Party’s opposition to abortion has been fueled in recent elections by the religious beliefs of some of their members.
c. Abortion continues to be an important and controversial issue for the public in U.S. elections.
d. The majority of Americans believe abortion should be easily obtained throughout a woman’s pregnancy.
e. All of the above are true.
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Question 45
Which of the following was NOT a focus of Second Wave feminism’s critique regarding the role of women and housework?
Choose one answer.
a. Housework is unpaid.
b. Housework is dull.
c. Women want and need the fulfillment of a professional life outside the home as much as men do.
d. Housework is something men should do more than women.
e. Limiting a married woman to household work and raising children makes it difficult for divorced women to find jobs and support themselves after the marriage ends.
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Question 46
Which Second Wave feminist argued strongly for women to seek fulfillment in work and careers outside of the home?
Choose one answer.
a. Simone de Beauvoir
b. Betty Friedan
c. Audre Lorde
d. John Stuart Mill
e. Susan B. Anthony
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Question 47
Which Second Wave feminist was instrumental in founding the National Organization of Women?
Choose one answer.
a. Mary Wollstonecraft
b. Betty Friedan
c. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
d. Linda Hirshman
e. John Stuart Mill
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Question 48
Which wave of feminism is associated with the “Homemaker’s Bill of Rights”?
Choose one answer.
a. First Wave
b. Second Wave
c. Third Wave
d. Both A and C
e. None of the above
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Question 49
Which wave of feminism is most associated with work and family issues?
Choose one answer.
a. First Wave
b. Second Wave
c. Third Wave
d. Both A and C
e. None of the above
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Question 50
Who was instrumental to the development of the Equal Rights Amendment?
Choose one answer.
a. John Stuart Mill
b. Simone de Beauvoir
c. Betty Friedan
d. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
e. Alice Paul
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Question 51
According to Foucault in “The History of Sexuality,” in which century did the age of state-sanctioned sexual repression begin?
Choose one answer.
a. Fifteenth century
b. Seventeenth century
c. Nineteenth century
d. Twentieth century
e. None of the above
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Question 52
According to Foucault in “The History of Sexuality,” beginning in the eighteenth century, which of the following strategic unities formed specific mechanisms of knowledge and power centering on sex?
Choose one answer.
a. A hysterization of women’s bodies
b. A pedagogization of children’s sex
c. A socialization of procreative behavior
d. A psychiatrization of perverse behavior
e. All of the above
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Question 53
According to Foucault in “The History of Sexuality,” how are the power mechanisms of sexuality characterized?
Choose one answer.
a. The power mechanisms of sexuality are socially constructed.
b. The power mechanisms of sexuality are unstable.
c. The power mechanism of sexuality are historically situated.
d. A, B, and C
e. A and B
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Question 54
Contemporary feminist concerns about the body focus on which of the following differences?
Choose one answer.
a. Biological differences
b. Racial differences
c. Class differences
d. Religious differences
e. A, B, and C
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Question 55
Foucault argues that extortion of the sexual confession during the nineteenth century came to be constituted in scientific terms through which of the following?
Choose one answer.
a. A clinical codification of the inducement to speak
b. The postulate of a general and diffuse causality
c. The principle of a latency intrinsic to sexuality
d. The medicalization of the effects of confession
e. All of the above
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Question 56
In “Gender Trouble,” Judith Butler argues that, “There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; . . . identity is performatively constituted by the very ‘expressions’ that are said to be its results” (25). Which of the following best represents what Butler means?
Choose one answer.
a. Gender is a performance.
b. Gender is what you do, not who you are.
c. Gender is not socially constructed.
d. Both A and B
e. None of the above
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Question 57
In “The History of Sexuality,” Foucault argues that, over the past several centuries, forms of power have been exerted on sex and the body in which of the following ways?
Choose one answer.
a. Questionable sexualities, such as children’s sexuality, were forced into hiding.
b. The mechanisms of power that focused on peripheral sexualities did not aim to suppress them but rather to highlight and incorporate them.
c. Sexual surveillance became ubiquitous.
d. The family and institutions were used as a form of power.
e. All of the above
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Question 58
In “The History of Sexuality,” Foucault sets out the parameters of his discussion, writing that “the aim of the inquiries that will follow is to move less toward a ‘theory’ of power than toward an ‘analytics’ of power: that is, toward a definition of the specific domain formed by relations of power, and toward a determination of the instruments that will make possible its analysis” (82). This analytics can only be constituted if it frees itself from the “juridico-discursive” (82). Which of the following do NOT comprise the principal features of this power?
Choose one answer.
a. The positive relation. The connection between power and sex is always positive.
b. The insistence of the rule. This means that power places sex in a binary system, power prescribes an order for sex, and power maintains its hold on sex through language.
c. The cycle of prohibition. The objective of this prohibition is that sex renounce itself through the threat of a punishment that is the suppression of sex.
d. The logic of censorship. This takes three forms: affirming that such a thing is not permitted, preventing it from being said, and denying that it works.
e. The uniformity of the apparatus of power exerted on sex and the body.
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Question 59
Judith Butler argues which of the following?
Choose one answer.
a. Sexual characteristics are the biological determinants of gender identity and behavior.
b. Heterosexuality and homosexuality are essential, opposing identities.
c. Gender and biological sex are too complicated to study using social science methods.
d. Gender is performed through both bodily gestures and styles to create sexual identity.
e. All of the above
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Question 60
Most poststructuralist feminists would agree with which of the following statements?
Choose one answer.
a. Language does not accurately represent or reflect reality, but rather constructs it.
b. Universalizing, or essentialist, principles are linked to oppression and domination of that which does not conform to socially constructed standards of male and female.
c. As per Foucault, human subjection is the result of power relations proliferated through multiple discourses, and deconstructing these power relations is essential for resisting repressive forces.
d. The use of identity politics in feminism is potentially dangerous because it reinforces self-concepts generated through operations of power that are not liberatory.
e. All of the above
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Question 61
Which are areas of disagreement or contention among feminists regarding issues of moral psychology?
Choose one answer.
a. The role of emotion in moral theory
b. Whether women have deformed desires, and to what extent these possible deformed desires interfere with women’s autonomy
c. The degree to which members of the dominant group—men—are responsible for their participation in the oppression of women
d. Whether the socialization or background circumstances of women undermines their responsibility or blameworthiness for immoral action unrelated to oppression
e. All of the above
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Question 62
Which of the following best characterizes the relationship between feminist theorists and transgender theorists?
Choose one answer.
a. These theorists agree on most ideas, arguments, and conceptualizations of gender identity and sexuality.
b. These theorists share some overlapping ideas about gender identity and sexuality, but there are also many differences and disagreements.
c. These theorists do not communicate in the academic world.
d. Both A and C
e. None of the above
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Question 63
Which of the following democratic revolutions was most influenced by feminism?
Choose one answer.
a. The American Revolution
b. The Arab Spring
c. The Tea Party Revolution
d. The Greek Resistance during WWII
e. All of the above
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Question 64
Which of the following is a critique of poststructural and queer feminism?
Choose one answer.
a. It is too “ivory tower” academic.
b. It is difficult to read.
c. It is overly concerned with language and text.
d. Both A and C
e. None of the above
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Question 65
Which of the following is an international issue that is of concern to contemporary feminists?
Choose one answer.
a. Genital mutilation
b. Poverty
c. Reproductive rights
d. Health services and issues
e. All of the above
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Question 66
Which of the following is NOT true of Michel Foucault’s beliefs and their importance to Third Wave feminism?
Choose one answer.
a. His belief about the suppression of human sexuality was important to some Third Wave feminists.
b. His belief about oppressive power structures built into the state was important to Third Wave feminists.
c. His belief that marriage should be abolished by the state was important to Third Wave feminists.
d. His books “The History of Sexuality” and “Discipline and Punish” were examined and analyzed by Third Wave feminists.
e. All of the above are true.
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Question 67
Which of the following is one of Angela Davis’s main arguments in her lecture, “How Does Change Happen?”
Choose one answer.
a. Only political elites are capable of making important changes in society.
b. Ordinary citizens and community organizers are capable of making important changes in society.
c. Only feminists and people who support feminist causes are capable of making important changes in society.
d. Only people with political and economic power are capable of making important changes in society.
e. None of the above
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Question 68
Which of the following is the best definition of gender socialization?
Choose one answer.
a. The formation of an attachment bond between female children and their caregivers
b. The practice of sociologists to explain everything in terms of social customs
c. The process of identifying with and taking on masculine and feminine characteristics by learning society’s norms and values
d. The practice of fathers encouraging boys to be traditionally masculine and girls to be traditionally feminine
e. None of the above
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Question 69
Which of the following questions would be of interest to feminist moral psychologists?
Choose one answer.
a. How does the patriarchy affect women’s desires?
b. Can women be autonomous if their desires are deformed by the patriarchy?
c. Does the satisfaction of women’s deformed desires contribute to their own oppression?
d. What motivates those who perform sexist acts that contribute to women’s oppression?
e. All of the above
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Question 70
Which of the following statements is NOT true with respect to feminist concerns about international issues?
Choose one answer.
a. Feminists are engaged on questions about reproductive rights throughout the world.
b. Feminists tend not to be interested in issues beyond their own national borders.
c. Feminists are interested in investigating genital mutilation practices throughout the world.
d. Feminists are active in seeking to offer health information and services to women throughout the world.
e. Feminists are interested and engaged in eliminating female poverty throughout the world.
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Question 71
Which wave of feminism is most associated with the notion that the “category” of woman is socially constructed?
Choose one answer.
a. First Wave
b. Second Wave
c. Third Wave
d. Both A and C
e. None of the above
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Question 72
Who argued that feminists focused too much on issues relevant to middle-class white women relative to the concerns of working-class minority women?
Choose one answer.
a. Simone de Beauvoir
b. Betty Friedan
c. Audre Lorde
d. John Stuart Mill
e. Susan B. Anthony
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Question 73
Who argued that gender is not biological but rather a performance of the masculine and feminine?
Choose one answer.
a. Simone de Beauvoir
b. Betty Friedan
c. Audre Lorde
d. John Stuart Mill
e. Judith Butler
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Question 74
Who argued that it was a mistake for feminists to identify women as a group with common characteristics and interests?
Choose one answer.
a. Simone de Beauvoir
b. Judith Butler
c. Audre Lorde
d. John Stuart Mill
e. Susan B. Anthony
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Question 75
Who argued that state power operates through sexuality and the body?
Choose one answer.
a. Simone de Beauvoir
b. Betty Friedan
c. Audre Lorde
d. John Stuart Mill
e. Michel Foucault
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Question 76
Who is known for providing important work for queer theory?
Choose one answer.
a. Betty Friedan
b. Judith Butler
c. Linda Hirschman
d. Angela Davis
e. None of the above
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Question 77
Who is most associated with contesting racial biases in feminist thought?
Choose one answer.
a. Betty Friedan
b. Simone de Beauvoir
c. Audre Lorde
d. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
e. Judith Butler
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Question 78
A gender analysis of militarism aims at which of the following goals?
Choose one answer.
a. Preventing violence
b. Ensuring gender equity in U.S. interventions abroad
c. Identifying gender inequities in the U.S. Congress
d. Both A and B
e. None of the above
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Question 79
Men and women in U.S. politics differ slightly in their opinions on which of the following issues?
Choose one answer.
a. The role of government in society
b. U.S. military intervention
c. Healthcare and welfare
d. Affirmative action
e. All of the above
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Question 80
Roughly what percentage of rape victims are female?
Choose one answer.
a. 25 percent
b. 50 percent
c. 60 percent
d. 75 percent
e. 90 percent
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Question 81
The U.S. legal system recognizes which of the following in its definition of rape?
Choose one answer.
a. An illegitimate use of force
b. Disregard of the victim’s non-consent
c. Prior existence of a power relationship between victim and alleged perpetrator
d. Both A and B
e. None of the above
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Question 82
When did concerns about sexism in medicine and bioethics first begin to take root among feminist writers and activists?
Choose one answer.
a. 1950s
b. 1960s
c. 1970s
d. 1980s
e. 1990s
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Question 83
When was the gender gap in U.S. politics first identified?
Choose one answer.
a. 1890
b. 1960
c. 1980
d. 1990
e. 2000
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Question 84
When was Title IX passed?
Choose one answer.
a. 1912
b. 1920
c. 1960
d. 1972
e. It hasn’t passed yet.
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Question 85
Which of the following are included in the World Charter for Prostitutes’ Rights?
Choose one answer.
a. Decriminalize all aspects of adult prostitution resulting from individual decision.
b. Decriminalize prostitution and regulate third parties according to standard business codes.
c. Enforce criminal laws against fraud, coercion, violence, child sexual abuse, child labor, rape, and racism everywhere and across national boundaries, whether or not in the context of prostitution.
d. Eradicate laws that can be interpreted to deny freedom of association, or freedom to travel, to prostitutes within and between countries; prostitutes have rights to a private life.
e. All of the above
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Question 86
Which of the following areas of law might a feminist legal philosophy address?
Choose one answer.
a. Reproductive rights
b. Citizenship and equality
c. Women’s rights as private citizens and members of the workforce
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
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Question 87
Which of the following areas of research would be interesting to a feminist bioethicist?
Choose one answer.
a. Sex selection techniques
b. Genetic testing and screening
c. Abortion
d. Discrimination in health insurance
e. All of the above would be interesting to a feminist bioethicist.
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Question 88
Which of the following aspects of U.S. national security impacts gender equality?
Choose one answer.
a. U.S. counter-terrorism measures
b. U.S. immigration policies
c. U.S. foreign policy
d. U.S. asylum policy
e. All of the above
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Question 89
Which of the following is a predictor of how a voter in the United States will vote in a presidential election?
Choose one answer.
a. Marital status
b. Sex
c. Education level
d. Income level
e. All of the above
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Question 90
Which of the following is NOT a feminist perspective on science?
Choose one answer.
a. The institutions of science have a long tradition of excluding women as practitioners.
b. Women are routinely marginalized as subjects of scientific inquiry, or are treated in ways that reproduce gender-normative stereotypes.
c. Women have historically been over-examined in medical research.
d. Scientific authority has frequently served to rationalize the kinds of social roles and institutions that feminists question.
e. None of the above are feminist perspectives on science.
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Question 91
Which of the following is NOT an example of a program expanded from the Violence Against Women Act?
Choose one answer.
a. Legal aid for survivors of violence
b. Protections for victims who are evicted from their home as a result of domestic abuse or stalking
c. Programs and services for children and teens
d. Programs aimed at providing equal access to education at public colleges
e. Funding for rape crisis hotlines
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Question 92
Which of the following is NOT an underlying presumption of a feminist philosophy of law?
Choose one answer.
a. All human beings are of equal intrinsic moral integrity.
b. All human beings are entitled to equal protection of the law.
c. No legal system, as it is currently constituted, provides equal protection of law to men.
d. No legal system, as it is currently constituted, provides equal protection to women and children.
e. All of the above are underlying presumptions of a feminist philosophy of law.
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Question 93
Which of the following is NOT true about the gender gap in American politics?
Choose one answer.
a. Women are slightly more likely to vote Democrat than men.
b. Women are slightly more liberal when it comes to social issues than men.
c. Women are slightly more likely to voice anti-war opinions than men.
d. Women are slightly more likely to vote Republican than men.
e. Women are slightly more likely to vote than men.
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Question 94
Which of the following is NOT true about Title IX?
Choose one answer.
a. It covers men, women, boys, and girls in public educational institutions.
b. It covers men, women, boys, and girls in private businesses that receive federal funding.
c. It does not apply to admissions, recruitment, or course offerings at public educational institutions.
d. It covers sexual harassment.
e. All of the above
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Question 95
Which of the following is the best illustration of the gender gap in U.S. politics?
Choose one answer.
a. Since the 1980s, women are more likely to vote for Republican candidates than for Democratic candidates.
b. Since the 1980s, women are likely to make more money than men.
c. Since the 1980s, women are more likely to vote for Democratic candidates than for Republican candidates.
d. Both A and B
e. None of the above
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Question 96
Which of the following is true of a feminist philosophy of law?
Choose one answer.
a. It is concerned with analyzing legal structures and their impact on women and girls.
b. It is concerned with formulating new structures or reforms that could correct gender injustice, exploitation, or restriction.
c. It is the critique of the law as a patriarchal institution.
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
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Question 97
Which of the following issues is of concern to some feminists regarding pornography?
Choose one answer.
a. It can be seen as advocating violence against women.
b. It can be seen as objectifying women as sexual beings.
c. It is considered culturally inappropriate for women to view pornography.
d. Both A and B
e. None of the above
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Question 98
Which of the following pieces of legislation is primarily meant to ensure gender equity at public institutions of higher learning?
Choose one answer.
a. The 19th Amendment
b. The Equal Rights Amendment
c. Title IX
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
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Question 99
Which of the following statements is true about sex trafficking?
Choose one answer.
a. It primarily involves women and children.
b. Feminists all agree that sex trafficking is a problem and that sex workers should be arrested.
c. It is legal in the United States.
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
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Question 100
Which of the following statements is true?
Choose one answer.
a. Academics worry that female students in the U.S. are underrepresented in undergraduate Sociology programs.
b. Academics worry that female students in the U.S. are underrepresented in undergraduate Psychology programs.
c. Academics worry that female students in the U.S. are underrepresented in undergraduate Engineering departments.
d. Both A and B
e. None of the above
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