Exam 15: Philippe Lemoine and Rebecca Tuvel, “Feminism”

When discussing challenges to intersectional feminism in her essay, Rebecca Tuvel brings up the risk that identity framed as injury takes center stage in one's self understanding. She explains the problem, namely that "preoccupation with a wounded notion of identity can also preclude more positive ways of understanding it." In your essay, consider the following question: What does it mean to balance an understanding of one's identity that includes both injury and more positive realities? Then, explain how your answer fits into the feminism debate, focusing on whether your account complicates or support an intersectional view.

In his essay, Philippe Lemoine expresses concern with oppression both as a word and a phenomenon. In your essay, explain Lemoine's objection to standard feminist uses of this word. Do you think that he is right to say that people typically understand oppression to be about problems like racism, slavery, and the holocaust? Are there alternate views of oppression that are typically held? Be sure to include an example in your answer.

In her essay, Tuvel argues that we can know that a wrong took place without knowing what?

In his essay, Lemoine argues that one shouldn't use what word to describe how women are treated in contemporary Western societies?

Which author affirmed the following in their reply: "blanket statements about what all women or all men or all members of any category suffer must go out the window."

In his essay, Lemoine affirms that it's consistent to think both that women should enjoy the same rights as men and that _____:

In his essay, Lemoine agrees with which of the following claims?

In his reply, Lemoine argues that what is remarkable about Tuvel's conception of feminism?

In their essays and replies, Philippe Lemoine and Rebecca Tuvel explain their understandings of the phenomenon of oppression. In your essay, highlight the differences between their views. Then, briefly describe the extent to which you take this issue to be a central one in the feminism debate. In other words, is feminism over if women aren't oppressed? Or is there more work for feminism to do quite independently of whether women are oppressed?

In her essay, Tuvel argues that modern feminists have learned from early black feminists' insights when it comes to acknowledging the need for _____:

In his essay, Lemoine states, "I agree that women should have the same rights as men. I just don't think that's what "feminism" means anymore."

In her reply, Tuvel offers an explanation for why feminists resist what idea?

In her essay, Tuvel describes the gender binary as being a number of things. Which of the following is NOT a way that she categorizes the gender binary?