Deck 14: Feminism

Question 1

John Stuart Mill advocated "perfect equality" for women and believed that marriage should be an equal partnership.According to Mill,what would the outcome of this be?

A) There would always be an equal number of men and women with public careers in the public domain.
B) Men would become more involved in child rearing and household matters.
C) Men would continue to be more concerned with public life, married women with the household and private life.
D) Women would become more dominant in the public realm and devote themselves to work outside the home.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

According to Ronald Inglehart,the prominence of ideologies like feminism is due to a shift in values in Western societies that followed World War II.What is the term for this shift in values?

A) post-modernism
B) post-materialism
C) political correctness
D) post-radicalism

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What were the main goals of the second wave of feminism?

A) universal suffrage
B) the re-examination of sex roles in society
C) making women's lives better in the private or domestic sphere
D) equal legal and political rights

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What is the main point of disagreement between liberal and Marxist feminists?

A) the need for political equality
B) the need for legal equality
C) a woman's role in the family
D) the history of female oppression

Question 5

Which of the following situations would trouble a classical liberal feminist the most?

A) A career woman is unable to have a family due to work constraints.
B) Aboriginal women who marry non-aboriginal men lose their status, while Aboriginal men who marry non-aboriginal women do not.
C) An electoral district has never elected a female candidate.
D) Women make up only 5% of firefighters

Question 6

When did radical feminism arise?

A) in the eighteenth century
B) in the nineteenth century
C) in the twentieth century
D) in the twenty-first century

Question 7

Which of the following protests would most likely NOT be run by liberal feminists?

A) Women protesting for the right to hold political office
B) Women protesting for publicly-funded daycare
C) Women protesting to draw attention to the plight of mothers in custody battles
D) Women protesting for tougher rape laws

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT an objective of Marxist feminism?

A) legal equality
B) major transformations related to work
C) primacy of gender equality over economic equality
D) collective housekeeping and child rearing arrangements

Question 9

Which author did NOT write that the family made women into domestic slaves?

A) J.S. Mill in his Subjection of Women (1869)
B) Karl Marx in his German Ideology (1845)
C) Friedrich Engels in his The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884)
D) Mary Wollstonecraft in The Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Question 10

According to Marxist feminists,when will true emancipation of women take place?

A) when women have the same rights as men
B) when women no longer bear children
C) when women make more money than men
D) when the means of production are socialized and capitalism is abolished

Question 11

Which of the following statements would Robert Owen agree with?

A) Men and women are equal by nature
B) Men and women are unequal by nature
C) Men and women are unequal because of social influences
D) Men and women are equal because of legal advancements

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT a form of feminism?

A) liberal
B) natural
C) Marxist
D) radical

Question 13

Which author wrote that "social progress and changes of period are brought about by virtue of the progress of women toward liberty"?

A) Karl Marx
B) Germaine Greer
C) Betty Friedan
D) Charles Fourier

Question 14

What does the term "suffrage" mean?

A) the right to vote
B) legal equality
C) the right to own property
D) divorce laws that are more sympathetic to battered women

Question 15

What is one of the paradoxes of Marxist feminism?

A) Its objectives are sweeping, but feminism plays a secondary role in the revolution.
B) It failed to resolve the tension between equality of right and equality of outcome.
C) It assumes that women will still devote themselves primarily to the private sphere.
D) It makes economic liberation secondary to women's liberation.

Question 16

What do the policies implemented by Communist regimes regarding divorce,birth control,and abortions,illuminate about gender equality?

A) Feminists take a pro-choice stance on the abortion debate.
B) Women must enter the workforce to achieve gender equality.
C) The traditional family unit has challenged womens' entrance into the workforce.
D) Marriage enslaves women.

Question 17

What conclusions can we draw from the creation and widespread use of the birth control pill in the 1950s?

A) Technological advances can solve social and political problems.
B) Technological advances can create social and political problems.
C) Children prevent women from becoming feminists.
D) Biological factors played a key role in the place and advancement of women in society.

Question 18

Liberal feminism as it was first conceptualized has almost been entirely abandoned in modern feminist debates in the Western World.Which of the following was NOT one of the limitations of classic liberal feminism?

A) It took for granted the sexual division of labour.
B) It failed to resolve the tension between equality of right and equality of outcome.
C) It assumed that women would freely choose a domestic life.
D) It assumed legal and political equality would help the feminist cause.

Question 19

On which of the following points would the feminist thinkers Robert Owen and Kate Millet be most likely to agree with each other?

A) The central means of oppression is economic
B) Society shapes the character of individuals from one generation to the next
C) The central means of oppression is patriarchy
D) The struggle between men and women can best be defined as a class struggle

Question 20

What is the central concept of radical feminism?

A) Capitalism
B) Patriarchy
C) Matriarchy
D) anarchy

Question 21

Marx,Engels,and J.S.Mill all agreed that the family made women into slaves.

Question 22

One of the earliest proponents of ___________ feminism was ___________ who wrote ___________.

Question 23

The word feminist is a synonym for woman.

Question 24

The current prominence of feminism is related to the rise of ____________.The roots of modern feminism go back to the ____________,and it belongs to the family of ideologies born during the ____________.

Question 25

In ___________,the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (then Canada's highest court of appeal)ruled that women could be appointed to the ___________ because they were ___________.

Question 26

In 1989,Audrey McLaughlin became the first woman ever elected to the position of party leader at the federal level in Canada,and in 1993,Kim Campbell became the first female prime minister.

Question 27

Feminism is derived from the Latin word femustrata,which means women in power.

Question 28

By definition,only women can be feminists,but men can be feminist sympathizers.

Question 29

Mary Wollstonecraft wrote a book entitled A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,and she was the mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,who wrote the novel Frankenstein.

Question 30

The general theme of liberal feminism is equality of legal rights.

Question 31

John Stuart Mill wrote a book entitled ___________,in which he argued that the way women were treated was a form of ___________.

Question 32

Betty Friedan's best-selling book,The Feminine Mystique (1963),was a famous expression of radical feminism.

Question 33

Unlike other ideologies whose roots go back to the seventeenth century,feminism is an entirely new ideology.

Question 34

Radical feminism is focused on the elimination of all elements of patriarchy.

Question 35

In Canada,women secured the right to vote in federal elections in 1867.

Question 36

In its 1929 landmark ruling,the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (then Canada's highest court of appeal)declared that women were persons.

Question 37

In ___________,women in Canada won the right to vote in federal elections.The first woman to become Canada's Prime Minister was ___________.The first female justice of the Supreme Court of Canada was appointed in ___________.

Question 38

The main concern of second-wave feminism was to re-examine sex roles and,in particular,how laws and institutions excluded women from the public sphere.

Question 39

The central concept in radical feminism is patriarchy.

Question 40

The second wave of feminism burst onto the stage in the 1960s.

Question 41

The main concern of _________________ feminism was to re-examine sex roles and,in particular,how laws and institutions excluded women from the ___________ sphere.

Question 42

Robert Owen and Shulamith Firestone have conflicting ideas about where the differences between men and women originate.What are their ideas,and how did these ideas affect their solutions to the problem of the oppression of women?

Question 43

Both early liberal feminism and Marxist feminism seem to have paradoxical qualities.Explain what they are and how they can be resolved.

Question 44

Define and explain the significance of patriarchy.How have women and men begun to change this paradigm of gender control?

Question 45

Compare and contrast any three of the following authors regarding their feminist theories: Wollstonecraft,Mill,Fourier,Marx,Engels,Friedan,Millet,Brownmiller,Firestone.

Question 46

The central concept in ___________ feminism is_________,which is another word for male supremacy.Their main slogan is "the ____________ is the political."

Question 47

Is there a gender gap regarding women in politics?

Question 48

Explain the significance of the birth control pill to the feminist movement.What did it accomplish? Which problems could it not resolve?

Question 49

Compare and contrast Marxist feminism and radical feminism.Identify the significant authors in these traditions.

Question 50

Define and explain the significance of radical feminism.

Question 51

Liberal feminism focuses on the extension of human rights to women.List examples of how rights have been expanded for women.