Feminist Theory from Margin to Center Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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Feminist Theory from Margin to Center Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author's Preface (2000), where is visionary feminist discourse increasingly talked about?
(a) In university sororities.
(b) In the corridors of the educated elite.
(c) Inside factories and in union meeting halls.
(d) In beauty parlors.

2. For the author, what is the relationship between traditional beliefs about the family and society at large?
(a) She credits changes in society with destroying the traditional family structure.
(b) She thinks that the family is a haven from society.
(c) Traditional beliefs about the family and the relationships within it are grounded in ll the other forms of discrimination at work in American society.
(d) She does not see any relationship between the two.

3. What opinion does the author express regarding the connection between early feminist concepts of sexual liberty and the movement to end sexual oppression?
(a) She does not express an opinion but promises to discuss them together in a later book.
(b) She feels they should not be the target of conservative thinkers.
(c) They are very closely related.
(d) They are not the same thing.

4. In the first chapter, how does the author characterize the perspective of the women involved in the early feminist movement?
(a) They were overly concerned with saving poor women.
(b) They thought working women were not true feminists.
(c) Their perspective is difficult to pin down since they were from many different social backgrounds.
(d) They saw all women as oppressed but had no real awareness of the life of a non-white, non-middle class women.

5. What do early feminist concepts of sexual liberty represent for the author?
(a) Another manifestation of women adopting male-defined, heterosexist attitudes.
(b) A chance to finally be free from male desires.
(c) She does not say what they represent for her.
(d) A more practical approach to sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the author, what perspective really changed the direction of feminist thought?

2. What has happened as a result of the form taken by the majority of feminist writing?

3. How were black women's efforts received by white feminists?

4. According to the author, tensions about motherhood existed between which two schools of thought?

5. What change to the language expressing involvement in feminism does the author advocate?

(see the answer key)

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