Test Bank + Answers Women’S And Gender Studies Chapter 1 7e

Chapter 1

Women’s and Gender Studies: Perspectives and Practices

1. True/False Misogyny is defined as the social organization of gender in society.

2. True/False Androcentrism implies putting men on center and confusing maleness

with humanity.

3. True/False One of the two central components of feminism is a reallocation of power to women over men.

4. True/False A strategy of liberal feminism is working within the system for change.

5. True/False Women received the vote with the Sixteenth Amendment in 1920.

6. True/False The strategy of “add women and stir” associated with the development of women’s studies knowledge is the most serious challenge to traditional knowledge and its truth claims.

7. True/False The integration of Women’s and Gender Studies knowledge has occurred mostly in the biological and physical sciences.

8. True/False The physical and biological sciences have been more resistant than the humanities and the social sciences to embracing women’s studies knowledge.

9. True/False Imperialism can be defined as the economic, military, political and/or cultural domination over nations.

10. True/False The United States ratified CEDAW in 2008 at the start of President Obama’s first presidential term.

11. True/False “Late modernity” refers to the latter part of the nineteenth century.

12. True/False The term “gender studies” reflects a movement away from a fixed idea of “woman.”

13. True/False Third wave feminism has its origins in the lives of the baby boomer generation of the 1960s and 1970s.

14. True/False Black women’s studies grew out of the critique of lack of inclusivity on the part of traditional women’s studies programs.

15. True/False A poll about feminist attitudes found that somewhat less than half of women polled agreed that feminism had made their lives better.

16. True/False Transnational feminist perspectives support the notion of “universal sisterhood.”

17. CEDAW is a global treaty or convention on women’s status. It stands for Convention on the

a. Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

b. Empowerment of All Daughters Around the World

c. Ending Discrimination Against Women

18. The late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century women’s organization NWSA continues today as

a. NOW

b. John Birch Society

c. Ms Magazine

d. League of Women Voters

19. Patriarchy can be defined as

a. Male centeredness

b. Male domination

c. Male objectification

d. All of the above

20. A primary focus of a “third wave” feminist agenda is on

a. sexuality and identity

b. equal pay for equal work

c. getting women into high positions in the political and legal system

d. environmental issues

21. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was written by

a. Gloria Steinem

b. Susan B. Anthony

c. Mary Wollstonecraft

d. Jennifer Baumgardner

22. Legal changes brought about in part as a result of the women’s movement include

a. The Equal Pay Act (1963)

b. The Equal Rights Amendment (1964)

c. The Comparable Worth Act (1975)

d. Both (a) and (b)

e. Both (a) and (c)

23. Postmodernism is a perspective that

a. Advocates for essentialism

b. Encourages social activism for abolition

c. Investigates the relationship between knowledge and power

d. All of the above

24. Chapter One makes the case that “women” is still a necessary aspect of “women’s and gender studies”? Why is it necessary?

a. Because Title IX made it illegal to do otherwise

b. Because we live in an androcentric society

c. Because there are now few social and political consequences of identifying as a woman

d. All of the above

25. The feminist theoretical perspective that combines radical feminism and the insights of a class analysis is:

a. Liberal feminism

b. Lesbian feminism

c. Ecofeminism

d. Socialist feminism

26. Which of the following is not one of the myths associated with feminism as discussed in Chapter One?

a. Feminists reject motherhood and children

b. Feminists are greedy and want to make money

c. Feminists are angry and whiney

d. Feminism is a white, middle-class movement

e. None; all of these are myths associated with feminism

27. Postmodern feminism

a. Pays attention to how language constructs reality

b. Emphasizes truth is a relative concept

c. Emphasizes identity is multifaceted

d. Both (a) and (b)

e. All of the above

28. Who among the following has been considered an antifeminist writer?

a. bell hooks

b. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

c. Camille Paglia

d. All of the above

29. Which of the following is not a disadvantage of the “wave” approach to describe feminist activity?

a. Detracts from the continuity of feminist activity

b. Encourages resistance by traditional religious organizations

c. Provides potential for intergenerational divisiveness

d. None; all are disadvantages of the wave approach

30. The document that came out of the UN 4^th World Conference on Women in 1995 was

a. The Platform for Action

b. The Document of Sentiments and Resolutions

c. The International Manifesta of Women’s Rights

d. The Global Treaty of Women’s Issues and Concerns

31. The UN 4^th World Conference on Women held was held in

a. Nairobi, Africa

b. Paris, France

c. Beijing, China

d. London, England

32. The terms postfeminism implies

a. The need for feminism is over

b. Women and men have reached full equality

c. We have entered a fourth wave of feminism

d. Both (a) and (b)

e. All of the above

Reading 1 “Claiming an Education” Adrienne Rich

1. True/False In her article on women and education Adrienne Rich emphasizes that students have the right to receive an education.

2. True/False In “Claiming an Education,” Adrienne Rich emphasizes that there are three parts to her contract that include: costs of student education, appropriate housing, and safety on campus.

3. In “Claiming an Education,” Adrienne Rich explains that students must

a. Take themselves seriously

b. Seek out criticism

c. Think actively

d. All of the above

4. Adrienne Rich’s article “Claiming an Education” was a speech she made at

a. Douglass College

b. University of California, Berkeley

c. Amherst College

d. Bryn Mawr College

5. Adrienne Rich argues that a professor’s contract with students includes

a. making sexual advances

b. giving regular exams

c. taking female students seriously

d. assigning a lot of reading

6. Adrienne Rich’s speech has a sense of urgency because

a. convocation is an important campus event

b. claiming an education can transform women’s lives

c. feminists always speak with urgency

d. women’s colleges were on the decline

Reading 2 Excerpt from Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed

1. True/False Sara Ahmed argues that feminism involves recognizing and acknowledging our feelings.

2. True/False Sara Ahmed ended up studying philosophy at Adelaide University.

3. Sara Ahmed argues that feminism is about

a. Challenging sexual violence, inequality, and injustice

b. Questioning sexism

c. Recognizing that we can find the need for feminism everywhere

d. Both (a) and (b)

e. All of the above

4. According to Sara Ahmed, in order to recognize the need for feminism, we must

a. Examine our personal experiences

b. March in the streets

c. Analyze media

d. Write a manifesto

5. Sara Ahmed describes the process of developing a feminist consciousness as a series of “senses” and “sensations” because

a. she is overly emotional and does not know how to handle her feelings

b. she believes in using her sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch

c. should would rather “sense” things intuitively than to apply herself intellectually

d. she is learning to integrate intellectual learning, emotional intuition, and physical awareness

6. Sarah Ahmed argues that “the personal is structural” in order to demonstrate that

a. the things that happen her as an individual result from sexist social structures

b. sometimes men hit women with fists and weapons

c. it is important for women to have structures such as houses in which to seek shelter

d. None of the above

Reading 3 “No More Miss America” New York Radical Women

1. True/False The “No More Miss America” manifesto was written by a woman of color collective called ‘Listen Up!’

2. The “No More Miss America” manifesto was written in

a. 1928

b. 1958

c. 1968

d. 1978

3. According to Chapter 1, the “No More Miss America” manifesto was written by

a. Liberal feminists

b. Radical feminists

c. Socialist feminists

d. Third wave feminists

4. The authors of the “No More Miss America” manifesto made the connections between beauty pageants and which of the following issues?

a. Militarism

b. Capitalism

c. Racism

d. Animals

e. Both (a) and (b)

f. All of the above

5. The tone of the “No More Miss America” manifesto is angry and sarcastic because

a. the authors disapprove of the ways the Miss America pageant disempowers women

b. the authors are fed up by the terrible treatment of farm animals in New York State

c. the authors want to be like Miss America but cannot

d. feminist authors are always angry and sarcastic

6. The New York Radical Women argue that a single-minded focus on female beauty makes women

a. prettier

b. less powerful

c. more joyful

d. harder to oppress

Reading 4 “A Day Without Feminism” Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards

1. True/False Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards imagine a world before women got the vote and women were not allowed to own property.

2. True/False In the scenario created by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards in “A Day without Feminism,” less than 2% of women were dentists.

3. True/False Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards are second wave feminists.

4. Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards’s “A Day without Feminism,” imagines a world in

a. 1950

b. 1960

c. 1970

d. 1980

5. Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards describe the status of women the year they were born in order to

a. take a stroll down memory lane

b. critique the way that second wave feminists engaged in protest

c. show how little has changed for women

d. show that many of the rights that contemporary women take for granted result from feminism

Reading 5 “A Transnational Black Feminist Framework: Rooting in Feminist Scholarship, Framing Contemporary Black Activism” Kia M. Q. Hall

1. True/False The phrase Black Lives Matter was coined by three queer black women.

2. True/False The Black Lives Matter movement has three main leaders.

3. True/False Queer women’s activist leadership is a new phenomenon.

4. True/False Women are the victims of police brutality.

5. True/False Hall argues that “solidarity” and “support” are terms that imply the same level of commitment.

6. True/False The concept of intersectionality demonstrates the important relationship between scholarship and activism.

7. The Black Lives Matter movement is committed to the inclusion of

a. Trans women

b. Queer people

c. Girls

d. Both (a) and (b)

e. All of the above

8. Transnational feminists argue that human rights issues include

a. Domestic violence

b. Police violence

c. Problems only facing people who live outside of the U.S.

d. Both (a) and (b)

e. All of the above

Reading 6 “In Defense of Latinx” Christine Garcia

1. True/False The introduction of the term Latinx resulted in its immediate, widespread use.

2. True/False Latinx is a term that acknowledges intersectional identities.

3. The debates about the term Latinx demonstrate that

a. labels matter

b. gender, sexuality, and sexual expression are important and should be taken into account in addition to race and ethnicity

c. there is power in the words we use

d. Both (a) and (b)

e. All of the above

4. The term Latinx is a better option than Latino/a because

a. Latinx is a trendy term

b. Latinx is a shorter word and easier to type

c. Latino/a implies a default to the masculine

d. Latino/a takes gender and ethnicity into account

5. The term Latinx complicates the concept of a gender binary because

a. Latino/a implies that there are only two genders

b. the letter “x” refers to chromosomes

c. identity and gender are dichotomous

d. only “woke” people use the term

Reading 9 “My Heroines” Marge Piercy

1. True/False In Piercy’s poem “My Heroines,” she argues that heroines write our future.

2. Who are the women whom Piercy calls “heroines”?

a. Women writing letters late at night

b. Women volunteering at shelters

c. Women running for President

d. Both (a) and (b)

e. All of the above

3. In Piercy’s poem “My Heroines,” what do heroic mothers say?

a. You can

b. You must

c. You shouldn’t

d. All of the above

4. Marge Piercy focuses on the actions of everyday women in order to

a. dismiss the importance of Molly Pitcher and Joan of Arc

b. redefine “heroism” for readers

c. show that women lead repetitive lives

d. argue that women’s actions are not significant

5. Marge Piercy focuses on women’s activism in order to

a. chide women who don’t stay home and care for their children

b. argue that mothers should work outside the home

c. bring attention to the unsavory behavior of feminist activists

d. show that individual women can make an impact on their communities