Deck 33: Alison Ainley: Feminist Philosophy

Question 1

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-The strands of feminist thinking in philosophy are

A) unified.
B) scientific.
C) diverse.
D) ancient.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-A key philosophical issue among feminist philosophers is the question of

A) sexual anomalies.
B) sexual difference.
C) sexual truth.
D) sexual timidity.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-Carol Gilligan has suggested that sexual difference is

A) of little concern.
B) unrelated to politics.
C) trivial.
D) significant.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-All women philosophers are feminist philosophers.

Question 5

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-Gender is synonymous with sex.

Question 6

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-It may be a historical accident that philosophy has been an activity associated with men.

Question 7

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-Along with Foucault and some Marxist theorists, some feminists have argued that sex itself is a social or cultural construct.

Question 8

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-Women have not been active philosophers in the past.

Question 9

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-Feminists have presented philosophical critiques of philosophers' images of women.

Question 10

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-In the past it has been argued that sex creates or causes gender.

Question 11

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-Historical research into the work of past women philosophers have found no evidence that women's work was unjustly disregarded.

Question 12

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-There is wide agreement among feminist philosophers that philosophy can be trusted to be neutral on the question of sexual difference.

Question 13

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-Philosophers agree that women's minds are not allied with reason and order.

Question 14

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-Feminists reject the notion of embodiment.