Deck 3: The Rhetorical Shaping of Genderwomens Movements in America

Question 1

Multiracial feminists argue that gender cannot be understood separate from other issues including race,ethnicity,class,sexual orientation,etc.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What factors led to the development of liberal feminism?

A) The discrimination women experienced in New Left politics.
B) The publication of Susan Faludi's Backlash.
C) The public protest at which women burned their bras.
D) The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique.
E) A desire to bring women's moral perspectives to politics.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The backlash movement claims that

A) feminism has been effective in gaining equality for women so it is no longer needed.
B) feminism is the direct cause of personal and social problems that plague contemporary life.
C) women are not able to work in professional positions.
D) men have repressed women's advancement in careers.
E) both A & B.

Answer 3

E

Question 4

Lesbian feminists believe that it is not possible to reform America's patriarchal culture.

Question 5

The backlash against feminism ended when women got the right to vote.

Question 6

Which feminist group emphasizes that all oppressions¾including those to non-human living things¾are linked and that to eliminate oppression of women we must also eliminate oppression of animals and the environment?

A) revalorists
B) ecofeminists
C) lesbian feminists
D) womanists
E) separatists

Question 7

Third wave feminism focuses on

A) daily acts of resistance.
B) insisting that the personal is political.
C) unifying feminists to create a single feminist movement.
D) creating structural change that will then affect individuals.
E) all of the above.

Question 8

Revalorists choose to leave mainstream society and form separate communities that value women and are in harmony with nature.

Question 9

A group of women engages in conscious raising "rap" sessions.During the rap sessions,women talk about personal experiences with sexism and how these are related to social and political structures.Each woman has an equal opportunity to speak,so that no one person can dominate the discussion.This group best represents which branch of feminism?

A) radical feminists
B) liberal feminists
C) womanists
D) separatists
E) revalorists

Question 10

This feminist movement believes the key to understanding gender and identity is best understood by examining the intersection of key elements of identity like gender,race-ethnicity,sexual orientation,and economic class.All women and all men do not understand and experience gender in a universal way.This best describes which branch of feminism?

A) lesbian feminism
B) revalorism
C) womanism
D) multiracial feminism
E) none of the above

Question 11

The first women's movement in the United States began in the 1960's.

Question 12

What was/were the goal/s of the first wave of the women's rights movement?

A) Woman suffrage - the right to vote.
B) Women's right to higher education.
C) Women's right to work in the professions.
D) Women's right to own property.
E) All of the above

Question 13

There is a common set of beliefs that all feminists share.

Question 14

Womanists address issues that affect working and lower-class women.

Question 15

What document served as the model for the Declaration of Sentiments?

A) The Magna Carta
B) The Declaration of Independence
C) The U.S. Constitution
D) The Bible
E) None of the above

Question 16

Women won the right to vote in 1920 in part because of the efforts of the members of the ____ movement,a group that asserted women's moral superiority.

A) Seneca Falls Convention
B) Revalorists
C) Cult of Domesticity
D) Women's Suffrage Coalition
E) National Organization for Women

Question 17

Which of the following are accomplishments of the National Organization for Women (NOW)?

A) Advocacy for the prohibition of sex discrimination by federal contractors.
B) The documentation of sexism in the media.
C) Advocacy for the reformation of banking and credit practices that disadvantage women.
D) Highlighting gender inequality across the globe.
E) All of the above

Question 18

Liberal feminist ideology claims that women and men are alike in all important respects and so should have equal rights.

Question 19

Women burned their bras to protest the Miss America pageant in 1968.

Question 20

Power feminism claims that women identifying as victims so frequently is part of the reason women are disadvantaged.

Question 21

Identify the following:

-NOW

Question 22

Second wave radical feminists convened consciousness-rasing or rap groups in order to explore their personal experiences of sexism and to link those experiences to structural issues.Deeply committed to egalitarianism,in some groups,every woman would be provided with a set of chips.Each time a woman spoke,she threw a chip into the center of the group.When a woman was out of chips,she could no longer speak,thus allowing less out-going members of the group to have a voice.Reflect on the potential implications of such a policy.Do you think a policy would promote or prohibit productive engagement?

Question 23

Identify the following:

-The personal is political

Question 24

According to Susan Faludi,antifeminist movements,the backlash against feminism,have two primary claims.Identify them and explain how they are contradictory.

Question 25

Compare and contrast third wave feminism and multiracial feminism.In your essay,note similarities as well as differences between the two movements' values,goals,principles and demographics of membership.

Question 26

Third wave feminists agree that the media and consumption are detrimental to women's equality.

Question 27

Identify the following:

-The Guerrilla Girls

Question 28

Some third-wave feminists embrace sexiness and femininity as part of being empowered.What is your position on this issue? Defend your stance.

Question 29

Identify the following:

-Liberal feminist ideology

Question 30

Explain the unique contributions of the women's rights movement and the cult of domesticity movement to first wave feminism.

Question 31

Identify the following:

-Cultural feminist ideology

Question 32

Identify the following:

-"Ain't I a Woman?"