Deck 14: Feminist Philosophy

Question 1

Helene Cixous recognizes that social structures are inherent in language, so she writes at the limits of language in a style called _____ to mitigate the damage done by "masculinist" structures in philosophical writing.

A) binary opposition
B) ecriture feminine
C) logocentrism
D) geisteswissenschaften

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Who among the following is a representative of the "First Wave" of feminist philosophy?

A) Simone de Beauvoir
B) Julia Kristeva
C) Harriet Taylor
D) Nel Noddings

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The whole focus of _____ work is to demonstrate that language doesn't exist outside the body.

A) Sara Ruddick's
B) Hélène Cixous's
C) Nancy Chodorow's
D) Carol Gilligan's

Answer 3

B

Question 4

According to Nel Noddings, an ethics of caring is a set of principles or maxims.

Question 5

According to Luce Irigaray, women have the capacity to define themselves.

Question 6

Carol Gilligan argues that men and women are very similar in the way they reason about moral issues.

Question 7

Identify a true statement about the words associated with women, their occupations, and their bodies in a male-dominated society.

A) Words associated with women tend to have derogatory and insulting slang meanings.
B) Words associated with women get reified into objects beyond the human realm.
C) Words associated with women vanish from the conversational landscape.
D) Words associated with women in a positive light get transformed into male virtues.

Question 8

Simone de Beauvoir placed women in the role of "other" to man's "self."

Question 9

Feminist philosophy excludes discussions of ecology.

Question 10

Jacques Derrida called the space between two poles "différance."

Question 11

Which of the following is true of third-wave feminism?

A) It accepts binary distinctions between men and women.
B) It accepts "sex positive" ideologies.
C) It rejects transsexual identities.
D) It represents the uniformity of all strands of theory.

Question 12

Identify a reason why feminist epistemologists are suspicious of the concept of the "ideal knower" as dispassionate, objective, and purely rational.

A) These qualities are of no value in the pursuit of knowledge and truth.
B) Too many real people are like that, and they don't know much.
C) Even supposedly objective scientists are influenced by their own prejudices and biases.
D) They aren't suspicious of this concept at all.

Question 13

Mary Wollstonecraft believed that docility, dependence, and sensitivity were the virtues of women.

Question 14

According to Nancy Chodorow, why do boys often become isolated, separate, and misogynous?

A) Boys are naturally this way because of the presence of greater amounts of testosterone.
B) They are often teased and rejected by girls at a young age.
C) Society requires that boys make efforts to establish themselves as "not-mother."
D) Mass media, advertising, and entertainment combine to produce this result.

Question 15

Which of the following is true according to Julia Kristeva?

A) The female semiotic has been devalued.
B) Feminine signification has been marginalized because it threatens the traditionally masculinist symbolic discourse.
C) Religious discourse can mediate a healing space between the symbolic and the semiotic.
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 16

Harriet Taylor is considered a first-wave feminist.

Question 17

The word "patriarchy" was coined early in the second wave to represent the set of institutions that legitimized universal male power.

Question 18

According to Mary Wollstonecraft, which of the following virtues should be cultivated in women as well as men?

A) docility
B) dependence
C) wisdom
D) sensitivity

Question 19

The third wave of feminism began in the mid-1950s.

Question 20

Who among the following coined the approach "maternal thinking"?

A) Nel Noddings
B) Carol Gilligan
C) Nancy Chodorow
D) Sara Ruddick