Question 1

Why did Shulamith Firestone argue that the root of women's oppression resides in the biological separation of the sexes?

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Question 2

Which one of the following radical feminists contended that patriarchy colonized women's mind and emptied them of their "biophilic" female energy?

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A)  Chude Pam Allen 
B)  Ti-Grace Atkinson 
C)  Germaine Greer 
D)  Mary Daly 
E)  Lydia Sargent

Question 3

Why did many feminists of color disapprove of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique?

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Question 4

Explain how Judith Butler's Gender Trouble and Eve Kosofsky Sedqick's Epistemology of the Closet represent the key foundational texts of queer theory.

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Question 5

In what year did Sojourner Truth escape enslavement?

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A)  1826 
B)  1833 
C)  1815 
D)  1838 
E)  1828

Question 6

How have the psychoanalytical viewpoints of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan influenced liberal and radical feminism?

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Question 7

Who was the founder of the National Council of Negro Women?

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A)  Mary McLeod Bethune 
B)  Nannie Helen Borroughs 
C)  Ida B. Wells-Barnett 
D)  Bettiola Heloise Fortson 
E)  Mary B. Talbert

Question 8

Which one of the following feminists defined the term "Mestiza consciousness"?

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A)  Anna Nieto-Gómez 
B)  Lorna Dee Cervantes 
C)  Dolores Huerta 
D)  Gloria Anzaldúa 
E)  Ada María Isasi-Díaz

Question 9

Why did many American feminists after 1980 publish works that criticized the exploitation of women in global factory labor?

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Question 10

Who were the important theorists that influenced the history of radical feminism?

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Question 11

In what year did the Native American occupation of Wounded Knee occur?

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A)  1978 
B)  1971 
C)  1973 
D)  1976 
E)  1974

Question 12

Which one of the following feminists argued that "there is no definable category of 'woman'?"

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A)  Dionne Brand 
B)  Julia Kristeva 
C)  Jeanne Bouvier 
D)  Françoise Giroud 
E)  Vivian Gornick

Question 13

Hijas de Cuauhtémoc was named after a feminist underground newspaper that supported the October 1968 Mexican student protests in Tlatelolco Plaza in Mexico City.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

What are the clear advantages of a feminist theoretical analysis for comprehending different kinds of feminism?

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Question 15

Who was a coauthor of the Equal Rights Amendment of 1923?

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A)  Dora Lewis 
B)  Crystal Eastman 
C)  Alva Belmont 
D)  Mabel Vernon 
E)  Annie Arniel

Question 16

Which one of the following prominent social reformers established Hull House settlement?

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A)  Nellie Bly 
B)  Katharine Ellis Coman 
C)  Jane Addams 
D)  Charlotte Hawkins Brown 
E)  Lillian Wald

Question 17

How did the queer activism of the 1990s and 2000s expand queer theory beyond the category of homosexuality?

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Question 18

Lugenia Burns Hope created the Atlanta Neighborhood Union, a club that functioned as a public school for African American children.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

In Gyn/Ecology, Mary Daly stated she didn't promote women's physical separation from men.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

In what year was the National Black Feminist Organization founded?

Accepted Answer

A)  1975 
B)  1981 
C)  1973 
D)  1970 
E)  1974

Exam 12: Feminisms: Theories and Practices

Why did Shulamith Firestone argue that the root of women's oppression resides in the biological separation of the sexes?

Which one of the following radical feminists contended that patriarchy colonized women's mind and emptied them of their "biophilic" female energy?

Why did many feminists of color disapprove of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique?

Explain how Judith Butler's Gender Trouble and Eve Kosofsky Sedqick's Epistemology of the Closet represent the key foundational texts of queer theory.

In what year did Sojourner Truth escape enslavement?

How have the psychoanalytical viewpoints of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan influenced liberal and radical feminism?

Who was the founder of the National Council of Negro Women?

Which one of the following feminists defined the term "Mestiza consciousness"?

Why did many American feminists after 1980 publish works that criticized the exploitation of women in global factory labor?

Who were the important theorists that influenced the history of radical feminism?

In what year did the Native American occupation of Wounded Knee occur?

Which one of the following feminists argued that "there is no definable category of 'woman'?"

Hijas de Cuauhtémoc was named after a feminist underground newspaper that supported the October 1968 Mexican student protests in Tlatelolco Plaza in Mexico City.

What are the clear advantages of a feminist theoretical analysis for comprehending different kinds of feminism?

Who was a coauthor of the Equal Rights Amendment of 1923?

Which one of the following prominent social reformers established Hull House settlement?

How did the queer activism of the 1990s and 2000s expand queer theory beyond the category of homosexuality?

Lugenia Burns Hope created the Atlanta Neighborhood Union, a club that functioned as a public school for African American children.

In Gyn/Ecology, Mary Daly stated she didn't promote women's physical separation from men.

In what year was the National Black Feminist Organization founded?