Deck 9: Feminism

Question 1

Who wrote: 'gender is not a synonym for women'?

A) Helen Kinsella
B) Barbara Smith
C) Lene Hansen
D) Terrell Carver

Answer 1

D

Question 2

There is one universal definition of feminism.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The feminist international relations theories that emerged in the late 1980s are part of a broader debate within International Relations between…

A) Realists and idealists.
B) Realists and behaviourists.
C) Realists, liberalists, and radical international relations theories.
D) Positivists and post-positivists.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Critical and postcolonial feminists were supportive of former US President George W. Bush's use of feminism to justify the ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because they saw this as evidence that the United States was sincerely committed to protecting Iraqi and Afghani women from abuses and violence.

Question 5

Gender refers to…

A) The essential categorization of female and male bodies.
B) An effect of discourses of power.
C) That which socially constructs sex.
D) All of the above, depending on the theoretical angle.

Question 6

UN Security Resolution 2242, passed in October 2015, centralizes the Women, Peace and Security Agenda as a necessary element in all efforts to address the challenges of international politics, including rising violent extremism, climate change, and displaced peoples.

Question 7

Without feminism and feminist movements, women's experiences and roles would have remained of little importance or interest to states.

Question 8

What are the four main feminist IR theories outlined in the chapter?

A) Liberal theory, critical theory, Marxist theory, poststructuralist theory.
B) Liberal theory, social constructivist theory, constitutive theory, postcolonial theory.
C) Liberal theory, critical theory, postcolonial theory, poststructuralist theory.
D) Liberal theory, constitutive theory, postcolonial theory, poststructuralist theory.

Question 9

Which of the following authors focuses on how gender inequality poses a major barrier to human development and leads to greater incidences of war and violence?

A) Rey Chow
B) Sandra Whitworth
C) Cynthia Weber
D) Valerie Hudson

Question 10

The concept of 'gender performativity' is at the heart of postcolonial feminism.

Question 11

In what era was the feminist agenda to include the experiences of lesbian/bisexual women into analyses of subordination and into movements for liberation particularly prominent?

A) 1950s-1960s
B) 1960s-1970s
C) 1970s-1980s
D) 1980s-1990s

Question 12

Which years were designated as the United Nations Decade for Women?

A) 1976-1985
B) 1972-1982
C) 1973-1983
D) 1971-1981

Question 13

Poststructural feminism draws most specifically from the scholarship of Judith Butler.

Question 14

The Women's International League of Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is the oldest formal women's international peace organization in the world.

Question 15

When was the Revolutionary Association for Afghan Women (RAWA) founded in Kabul, Afghanistan?

A) 2013.
B) 2001.
C) 1980.
D) 1977.