Ch12 Test Bank Answers Feminisms: Theories and Practices

Chapter 12 Test Bank Questions

Long Answer

1. Why is the issue of theorizing identity and oppression central to understanding multicultural/intersectional feminism? (Answer on pp. 386-387)

2. Who were the important theorists that influenced the history of radical feminism? (Answer on pp. 376-380)

3. Why did Shulamith Firestone argue that the root of women’s oppression resides in the biological separation of the sexes? (Answer on pp. 377-378)

4. What are the clear advantages of a feminist theoretical analysis for comprehending different kinds of feminism? (Answer on pp. 368-369)

5. Define the term liberal feminist theory. Explain why liberal feminism often is referred to as equality feminism. (Answer on pp. 371-372)

6. Why did many feminists of color disapprove of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique? (Answer on pp. 388-389)

7. Why did many American feminists after 1980 publish works that criticized the exploitation of women in global factory labor? (Answer on pp. 393-394)

8. Explain why philosophic postmodern scholars reject the main viewpoints of modernism? (Answer on pp. 397-399)

9. How does postmodern feminism repudiate the belief that there exist universal truths regarding all human beings? (Answer on pp. 398-399)

10. Why is Marx’s analysis of modes of production and capitalist exploitation of workers still relevant today, particularly in relation to the evolution of socialist feminism? (Answer on pp. 380-381)

Short Answer

1. Explain how radical feminism activism generated the public discourse and grassroots movements regarding sexual assault and pornography. (Answer on pp. 379-380)

2. Define the term antifeminism? Who is the most recognizable leader of antifeminism in the United States and why? (Answer on pp. 370-373)

3. How have the psychoanalytical viewpoints of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan influenced liberal and radical feminism? (Answer on p. 377)

4. Why did radical feminist Mary Daly reclaim words used to stigmatize women in her feminist analysis? (Answer on p. 379)

5. Explain why some Marxist feminists examine multiple forms of oppression, rather than solely focusing on capitalism as the only origin of women’s subjugation. (Answer on pp. 383-384)

6. Describe Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa’s contributions to queer theory? (Answer on pp. 401-402)

7. How did the queer activism of the 1990s and 2000s expand queer theory beyond the category of homosexuality? (Answer on pp. 398-399)

8. Explain how nineteenth century Black women writers and activists provided the historical foundation for an intersectional analysis of feminism. (Answer on pp. 384-386)

9. Define the term ecofeminism. (Answer on p. 383)

10. Explain how Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble and Eve Kosofsky Sedqick’s Epistemology of the Closet represent the key foundational texts of queer theory. (Answer on pp. 402-403)

11. Why do multicultural scholars and grassroots advocates insist that all forms of communication must be open and accessible, not embedded in arcane academic language. (Answer on p. 385)

12. How did the temperance movement in the United States attract liberal feminists? (Answer on p. 372)

15. Define the term postcolonial feminism. Why do postcolonial feminists argue that neoliberalism perpetuates inequality and unsafe conditions for workers in the Global South? (Answer on p. 395)

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did Victoria Woodhull run for the U.S. Presidency? (D is correct. Answer on p. 373)

a. 1868

b. 1875

c. 1880

d. 1872

e. 1876

2. Which one of the following radical feminists wrote The Dialectic of Sex? (A is correct. Answer on p. 377)

a. Shulamith Firestone

b. Robin Morgan

c. Rita Mae Brown

d. Kathie Sarachild

e. Judith Brown

3. Which one of the following prominent social reformers established Hull House settlement? (C is correct. Answer on p. 373)

a. Nellie Bly

b. Katharine Ellis Coman

c. Jane Addams

d. Charlotte Hawkins Brown

e. Lillian Wald

4. In what year did Gayle Rubin write her famous essay “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex”? (E is correct. Answer on p. 378)

a. 1969

b. 1972

c. 1977

d. 1974

e. 1975

5. Who made this comment that multicultural feminism “does not offer a singular or unified feminism so much as a method of analysis that take into account multiple systems of domination”? (B is correct. Answer on p. 385)

a. Audre Lorde

b. Maxine Baca Zinn

c. Vicki Ruiz

d. Angela Davis

e. Patricia Hill Collins

6. In what year did Sojourner Truth escape enslavement? (A is correct. Answer on p. 387)

a. 1826

b. 1833

c. 1815

d. 1838

e. 1828

7. Who commented that U.S. Third World feminism must overcome hegemonic feminism? (D is correct. Answer on p. 390)

a. Cherrie Moraga

b. Ana Castillo

c. Norma Alarcón

d. Chela Sandoval

e. Carla Trujillo

8. What year did Luce Irigaray write her influential essay “This Sex Which is Not One”? (B is correct. Answer on p. 400)

a. 1979

b. 1977

c. 1975

d. 1980

e. 1971

9. Which one of the following feminist scholars created the term “feminist standpoint”? (E is correct. Answer on pp. 383-384)

a. Zillah Eisenstein

b. Donna Haraway

c. Christine Delphy

d. Margaret Coulson

e. Nancy C. M. Hartsock

10. Which one of the following radical feminist groups was founded in 1967? (A is correct. Answer on p. 377)

a. New York Radical Women

b. Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell

c. Lavender Menace

d. The Furies Collective

e. Women Against Pornography

11. Which one of the following feminist activists stated that intersectionality compels a person to “be dealing with race and sex and class and sexual identity all at one time?” (C is correct. Answer on p. 386)

a. Pat Parker

b. Cheryl Clarke

c. Barbara Smith

d. Sonia Sanchez

e. Beverly Smith

12. In what city was Chandra Talpade Mohanty born in? (E is correct. Answer on p. 395)

a. Jaipur

b. Hyderabad

c. Kolkata

d. New Delhi

e. Mumbai

13. Which one of the following feminists argued that “there is no definable category of ‘woman’?” (B is correct. Answer on p. 400)

a. Dionne Brand

b. Julia Kristeva

c. Jeanne Bouvier

d. Françoise Giroud

e. Vivian Gornick

14. Which one of the following authors wrote the book The Wretched of the Earth? (D is correct. Answer on p. 395)

a. Jamaica Kincaid

b. Edouard Glissant

c. Aimé Césaire

d. Frantz Fanon

e. Maryse Condé

15. In what year was the National Black Feminist Organization founded? (C is correct. Answer on p. 389)

a. 1975

b. 1981

c. 1973

d. 1970

e. 1974

16. Which of the following nineteenth century Black female activists is known as the first African American female journalist? (C is correct. Answer on p. 387)

a. Eliza Ann Gardner

b. Frances Watkins Harper

c. Maria Stewart

d. Lucy Stanton

e. Harriet Tubman

17. Which one of the following nineteenth century women activists called herself a “hell-raiser”? (E is correct. Answer on p. 382)

a. Abby Kelley

b. Carrie Nation

c. Emma Goldman

d. Helen Gougar

e. Mother Jones

18. Who was a coauthor of the Equal Rights Amendment of 1923? (B is correct. Answer on p. 383)

a. Dora Lewis

b. Crystal Eastman

c. Alva Belmont

d. Mabel Vernon

e. Annie Arniel

19. Which one of the following radical feminists contended that patriarchy colonized women’s mind and emptied them of their “biophilic” female energy? (D is correct. Answer on p. 379)

a. Chude Pam Allen

b. Ti-Grace Atkinson

c. Germaine Greer

d. Mary Daly

e. Lydia Sargent

20. Who was the founder of the National Council of Negro Women? (A is correct. Answer on p. 387)

a. Mary McLeod Bethune

b. Nannie Helen Borroughs

c. Ida B. Wells-Barnett

d. Bettiola Heloise Fortson

e. Mary B. Talbert

21. In what year did the Native American occupation of Wounded Knee occur? (C is correct. Answer on p. 389)

a. 1978

b. 1971

c. 1973

d. 1976

e. 1974

22. Who wrote the book A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South? (E is correct. Answer on p. 387)

a. Elizabeth Keckley

b. Susie King Taylor

c. Annie L. Burton

d. Pauline Hopkins

e. Anna Julia Cooper

23. What year was the Vancouver Indochinese Women’s conference held? (B is correct. Answer on p. 388)

a. 1977

b. 1971

c. 1973

d. 1970

e. 1975

24. Which one of the following feminists defined the term “Mestiza consciousness”? (D is correct. Answer on p. 390)

a. Anna Nieto-Gómez

b. Lorna Dee Cervantes

c. Dolores Huerta

d. Gloria Anzaldúa

e. Ada María Isasi-Díaz

25. Which one of the following feminist theorists used the term transnational feminism rather than global feminism by 1997? (A is correct. Answer on p. 394)

a. Inderpal Grewal

b. Andrea Dworkin

c. Naomi Schor

d. Nancy K. Miller

e. Chantal Chawaf

True or False Questions

1. Hijas de Cuauhtémoc was named after a feminist underground newspaper that supported the October 1968 Mexican student protests in Tlatelolco Plaza in Mexico City. (False. Answer on p. 388)

2. Carrie Chapman Catt, the president of NAWSA (National American Woman’s Suffrage Association), publicly supported U.S. imperialism in the Philippines. (False. Answer on p. 393)

3. In Gyn/Ecology, Mary Daly stated she didn’t promote women’s physical separation from men. (True. Answer on p. 379)

4. Shulamith Firestone believed that technology would finally free women from the limitations of female biology. (True. Answer on p. 376)

5. Lugenia Burns Hope created the Atlanta Neighborhood Union, a club that functioned as a public school for African American children. (False. Answer on p. 373)