Deck 12: Contemporary Feminist Theory

Question 1

Which feminist question reveals how throughout history and even still today women are almost always present, yet ignored in social life?

A) And what about the women?
B) Why is all this as it is?
C) And what about the differences among women?
D) How can we change and improve the social world so as to make it a more just place for all people?

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which type of feminist theory focuses on how women's experiences are different from men's? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Cultural Feminism
B) Sexual Difference Theory
C) Institutional Sociological Theories
D) Interactional Sociological Theories

Answer 2

A, B, C, D

Question 3

Which type of feminist theory focuses on how women are oppressed by men? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Cultural Feminism
B) Liberal Feminism
C) Psychoanalytic feminism
D) Radical feminism

Answer 3

C, D

Question 4

Which is a current trend in feminism? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) A synthesis of feminist typologies.
B) A shift toward the oppression of not only women, but also men.
C) A tension between material power and cultural meanings.
D) Utilization of implicit feminist assumptions rather than making feminism the foundation of inquiry.

Question 5

_____ celebrates women's uniqueness relative to men.

A) Cultural Feminism
B) Sexual Difference Theory
C) Sociological Theories
D) Liberal Feminism

Question 6

Which feminist question reveals how gender is a social construct rather than a fixed biological property of human life?

A) And what about the women?
B) Why is all this as it is?
C) And what about the differences among women?
D) How can we change and improve the social world so as to make it a more just place for all people?

Question 7

Which wave of feminism inspired feminists to infuse themselves into sociology organizations and academic institutions more generally?

A) The First Wave
B) The Second Wave
C) The Third Wave
D) The Fourth Wave

Question 8

Who practices and advocates feminism? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Scholars
B) Sociologists
C) Artists
D) Activists

Question 9

Which wave of feminism inspired feminists to question the merits of feminism dominated by middle-class, white women?

A) The First Wave
B) The Second Wave
C) The Third Wave
D) The Fourth Wave

Question 10

Which type of feminist theory focuses on how women are unequal to men?

A) Cultural Feminism
B) Sexual Difference Theory
C) Sociological Theories
D) Liberal Feminism

Question 11

Which type of feminist theory focuses on how women are oppressed by the social structure? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Socialist Feminism
B) Intersectionality Theory
C) Psychoanalytic Feminism
D) Radical Feminism

Question 12

Which feminist question reveals that while all women are marginalized, that marginalization varies according to characteristics such as age, affectional preference, marital status, religion, ethnicity, or global location race?

A) And what about the women?
B) Why is all this as it is?
C) And what about the differences among women?
D) How can we change and improve the social world so as to make it a more just place for all people?

Question 13

Which of the following is an essentialist argument about sex and gender that feminists challenge? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) A view of gender as continuum between the binaries of male and female.
B) Immutable biological differences between men and women.
C) A need for women and men to fill different social roles in order for social institutions to operate.
D) The necessity for men and women to define their selves in opposition to each other.

Question 14

Epistemologically, which classic theorists does feminism share the most in common with as both focus on the way inequalities are infused into the way people come to know the world?

A) Karl Marx
B) Emile Durkheim
C) Max Weber
D) Talcott Parsons

Question 15

Which feminist question explores why patriarchy perseveres?

A) And what about the women?
B) Why is all this as it is?
C) And what about the differences among women?
D) How-and why-does gender inequality persist in the modern world?

Question 16

Which type of feminist theory focuses on how the category of women is socially constructed and maintained? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Socialist Feminism
B) Intersectionality Theory
C) Radical Psychoanalytic Feminism
D) Postmodernist Feminism

Question 17

Which is a current trend in feminism? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) A synthesis of feminist typologies.
B) A shift toward the oppression of not only women, but also men.
C) A tension between material power and cultural meanings.
D) Utilization of implicit feminist assumptions rather than making feminism the foundation of inquiry.

Question 18

How do feminists answer the basic question, and what about the women? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Women are different from men.
B) Women from are not only different from men, they are also unequal to men.
C) Women are not only unequal from men, they oppressed by men.
D) Women are shaped by capitalist, patriarchal, and racist social structures.
E) The category of women is socially produced and maintained.

Question 19

Which feminist question explores how inequalities can be combated?

A) And what about the women?
B) Why is all this as it is?
C) And what about the differences among women?
D) How can we change and improve the social world so as to make it a more just place for all people?

Question 20

Which wave of feminism was entwined with the founding of sociology as an academic discipline?

A) The First Wave
B) The Second Wave
C) The Third Wave
D) The Fourth Wave

Question 21

Which is a critique levied at feminist's institutional sociological theories? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) There is no source for the accountability required to enforce a doing of gender.
B) They cannot explain why gender differences persist when women occupy the same institutional positions as men.
C) The theory neglects how feminists try to undo gender.
D) The institutional model if overly static and deterministic.

Question 22

Which of the following is a way socialist feminists have moved beyond Karl Marx? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Material conditions are broadened, looked at beyond the economy and in institutions such as the family.
B) Situated knowledge if accounted for.
C) More than just class inequalities are considered.
D) Men and not women are responsible for stalling communist revolutions.

Question 23

_____ sees patriarchy or men's need to dominate women embedded in the socioemotional socialization that instills acceptance of masculine domination and female subordination.

A) Cultural Feminism
B) Psychoanalytic Feminism
C) Liberal Feminism
D) Interactional Sociological Theories

Question 24

_____ sees patriarchy as created and ultimately, though often indirectly sustained by violence and threats thereof?

A) Cultural Feminism
B) Psychoanalytic Feminism
C) Liberal Feminism
D) Radical Feminism

Question 25

According to psychoanalytic feminists, males are rewarded for ______ or expression of freedom and that is why they claim privilege by distancing themselves from women.

A) domination
B) subordination
C) individuation
D) recognition

Question 26

______ situates gender relations into the global capitalist society.

A) Historical materialism
B) Material feminism
C) Relations of the ruling
D) Vectors of oppression

Question 27

_____ explains women's oppression in terms of capitalism, especially how historical materialism influences not only wealth and power but also ideology.

A) Socialist Feminism
B) Psychoanalytic Feminism
C) Liberal Feminism
D) Radical Feminism

Question 28

_____ look at gender as something that is done or accomplished.

A) Cultural Feminists
B) Sexual Difference Theories
C) Institutional Sociological Theories
D) Interactional Sociological Theories

Question 29

_____ detail how gender differences emerge because of the different roles women have throughout the social structure, especially the family that entails a sexual division of labor.

A) Cultural Feminists
B) Sexual Difference Theories
C) Institutional Sociological Theories
D) Interactional Sociological Theories

Question 30

______ describes how inequalities exist not only between men and women, but between race, age, sexual orientation, class, and other sides of oppression.

A) Historical Materialism
B) Material Feminism
C) Relations of the Ruling
D) Vectors of Oppression

Question 31

Which is a critique levied at feminist's interactional sociological theories? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) There is no source for the accountability required to enforce a doing of gender.
B) The theory ignores how gender is embodied in addition to being accomplished.
C) The theory neglects how feminists try to undo gender.
D) The theory oversimplifies racial and class differences.

Question 32

______ describes how patriarchy is instituted not only through the economy, but numerous systems of control.

A) Historical Materialism
B) Material Feminism
C) Relations of the Ruling
D) Vectors of Oppression

Question 33

_____ argue that gender inequality is embedded in a variety of social institutions and thus the best way to undo patriarchy (or sometimes gender) as a social structure is to change law, work, education, media and especially family.

A) Cultural Feminism
B) Sexual Difference Theories
C) Liberal Feminism
D) Interactional Sociological Theories

Question 34

Which of the following emerges from a feminist analysis of gender inequality? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Men and women are not only differently but also situated unequally.
B) Men and women are given unequal opportunities for self-actualization.
C) The inequalities between men and women grow out of societal organization.
D) Men and women have a need for self-actualization.

Question 35

_____ focuses on how gender inequality overlaps and interlocks with other systems of oppression such as race, age, sexual preference, or global location.

A) Socialist Feminism
B) Intersectionality
C) Liberal Feminism
D) Radical Feminism

Question 36

_____ focuses on the processes that construct females as "the other" in ways that undermine women's freedom.

A) Cultural Feminism
B) Sexual Difference Theory
C) Sociological Theories
D) Liberal Feminism

Question 37

Which of the following principles have contemporary liberal feminists inherited from first wave feminists? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) All humans can utilize reason and moral agency toward self-actualization.
B) Human capacities are secured through legal recognition.
C) Sex inequalities have no basis in nature.
D) Inequalities can be undone by appealing to the public and the state.

Question 38

Which of the following is an emphasis of socialist feminism? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) A situating of gender relations within the global capitalist system.
B) Ruling relations occur not only through the economy, but other social institutions like the state.
C) Only men can utilize reason and moral agency toward self-actualization.
D) Human capacities are secured through biological recognition.

Question 39

According to psychoanalytic feminists, females are rewarded for ______ or the confirmation of others and that is why women often yield their own freedom and agency to benefit men.

A) domination
B) subordination
C) individuation
D) recognition

Question 40

Which is a way to characterize intersectionality? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) It moves marginalized voices to the center.
B) It highlights the differences and similarities amongst those who exist in different vectors in the matrix of domination.
C) It reveals how the social hierarchy is created and reproduced.
D) It reveals how social hierarchies are created and reproduced.

Question 41

Right now, largely because of their own success feminist ideas are often assumed in research as opposed to being a unique strand of research.

Question 42

Feminists have recently begun shifting from an exclusive focus on women toward one that explores oppressive practices and structures that affect both men and women.

Question 43

_____ challenges fundamental questions about taken-for-granted truths about gender, including what it means to be a woman.

A) Socialist Feminism
B) Postmodern Feminism
C) Liberal Feminism
D) Radical Feminism

Question 44

Which fundamental principle of feminist sociology reveals how women interpret the world in distinct ways largely because of their experiences with subordination?

A) A Feminist sociology of knowledge
B) The macro-social order
C) The micro-social order
D) Subjectivity

Question 45

What fundamental principle of feminist sociology expands Marx's analysis of the economy to look at all aspects of social life via a conceptualization of gender as a social structure?

A) A feminist sociology of knowledge
B) The macro-social order
C) The micro-social order
D) Subjectivity

Question 46

Currently, there is a tension in feminism between culture or meaning and material power.

Question 47

Because it is woman or women centered, feminist theory is not wide-ranging in its approach to social life.

Question 48

Feminists have thus far made little effort toward synthesizing their typologies.

Question 49

What fundamental principle of feminist sociology reveals how everyday interactions are largely unequal as patriarchal power manifests in daily life?

A) A feminist sociology of knowledge
B) The macro-social order
C) The micro-social order
D) Subjectivity

Question 50

Because it is woman or women centered, feminist theory is not wide-ranging in its approach to the human experience.

Question 51

Which is a way gender ideology distorts women's productive activities? Select all, but only those apply.

A) Trivializing activities like housework.
B) Idealizing activities like mothering.
C) Making women more visible for ridicule.
D) Rendering women and their contributions invisible.

Question 52

Gender refers to the biological condition of being male or female.

Question 53

Since feminism is deconstructive by design; it is impossible to deconstruct feminist theory itself.

Question 54

Feminist theory reveals masculinist bias by deconstructing established systems of knowledge.

Question 55

Which is of the following is a distinct way women subjectively experience the social world? Select all, but only those apply.

A) Women come to see themselves and their roles not through their own, but through male eyes.
B) A single often presume male generalized other orients norms toward men, not women.
C) Women are socialized to compartmentalize their own interests in order to corporately work toward the interests of others.
D) There is not a unified consciousness and women-specific developed a bifurcated consciousness because of a mismatch between their experiences and the presumed male experiences of the social world

Question 56

Cultural feminist sidestep questions of essentialism by celebrating women's uniqueness rather from men rather than trying to explain it.

Question 57

Which is a way that sociological feminists produce social scientific accounts that are still supportive of emancipatory projects? Select all, but only those apply.

A) Weaving together the diverse accounts of women.
B) Privileging accounts of the less privileged.
C) Reflexively moving from individual to group accounts while accounting for power.
D) Identifying how accounts a situated.

Question 58

What fundamental principle of feminist sociology accounts for a women's standpoint as it shaped by patriarchal oppression?

A) A feminist sociology of knowledge
B) The macro-social order
C) The micro-social order
D) Subjectivity

Question 59

Feminist theory's focus on gender redirects energy away from the liberation of women by articulating women's experiences.

Question 60

Because social science has almost always been male-dominated, there is a longstanding tension between feminism and sociology.

Question 61

How has the work of Karl Marx influenced feminist thinking?

Question 62

Feminists at the macro level affirm the different ways women are unable to pursue their goals in their interactions with men.

Question 63

Intersectionality creates ways to empirically observe the differences amongst women.

Question 64

Postmodern feminism is one of the most inclusive models of feminist thought.

Question 65

Feminists at the micro level explore how women are able to pursue their goals in their interactions with men.

Question 66

Judith Butler challenges the supposedly coherent relation among sex, gender, and sexuality.

Question 67

Which variety of contemporary feminist theory has the best answer to the question "and what about women"?

Question 68

Intersectionality allows feminists to recognize differences amongst women yet still note all women share a distinctive standpoint because of similar experiences of oppression.

Question 69

Like most scholars of their era, Karl Marx and Frederic Engels ignore gender inequalities in their theories of capitalism.

Question 70

Inequality theories assume both women and men would quickly and easily adapt to more egalitarian social structures and situations.

Question 71

Socialist feminists see patriarchy as a by-product of economic production rather than an independent structure of oppression.

Question 72

Sexual difference theories basically accept gender "differences" as facts of life.

Question 73

Many cultural feminists argue supposedly "feminine" traits are superior to masculine ones.

Question 74

Feminists at the macro level reveal how when interacting with men, women often find themselves helping others achieve their objectives rather than working towards their own goals.

Question 75

Postmodernism developed the most widely accepted answer to the question about what it means to be a woman.

Question 76

Postmodernism developed the most widely accepted ways to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions about supposed truths regarding gender.

Question 77

Explain how the different waves of feminism influenced the sociological discipline.