Baylis Test Questions & Answers Ch.9 Feminismhelen Kinsella

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 01

01) Who wrote: ‘gender is not a synonym for women’?

a. Helen Kinsella

b. Barbara Smith

c. Lene Hansen

d. Terrell Carver

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Title: Chapter 09 - Question 02

02) There is one universal definition of feminism.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 09 - Question 03

03) 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.

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Title: Chapter 09 - Question 04

04) 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.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 09 - Question 05

05) 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.

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Title: Chapter 09 - Question 06

06) 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.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 09 - Question 07

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

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 09 - Question 08

08) 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. Feedback: Incorrect (pp. 152–7)

c. Liberal theory, critical theory, postcolonial theory, poststructuralist theory.

d. Liberal theory, constitutive theory, postcolonial theory, poststructuralist theory.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 09

09) 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

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Title: Chapter 09 - Question 10

10) The concept of ‘gender performativity’ is at the heart of postcolonial feminism.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 09 - Question 11

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

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Title: Chapter 09 - Question 12

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

a. 1976-1985

b. 1972-1982

c. 1973-1983

d. 1971-1981

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Title: Chapter 09 - Question 13

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

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 09 - Question 14

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

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 09 - Question 15

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

a. 2013.

b. 2001.

c. 1980.

d. 1977.