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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Faludi identified which of the following books as the most widely quoted and influential feminist work in the 1980s?
(a) In a Different Voice.
(b) Sexual Personae.
(c) Sex and Destiny.
(d) Ms. Still.

2. Who does Faludi cite as the most famous feminist to retract her views?
(a) Betty Friedan.
(b) Camille Paglia.
(c) Carol Gilligan.
(d) Susan Brownmiller.

3. The antiabortion message is championed by which of the following teams?
(a) The New York Giants.
(b) New York Yankees.
(c) The New York Knicks.
(d) New York Rangers.

4. Grant concludes that women's liberation is a set of "big lies" that lead to all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Promiscuity.
(b) Exhaustion.
(c) Stress.
(d) Financial ruin.

5. Which of the following women had oversight of the funding from the Women's Educational Equity Act?
(a) Jeane Kirkpatrick.
(b) Charlene Heatherly.
(c) Leslie Wolfe.
(d) Faith Whittlesey.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1980 sex discrimination and other kinds of complaints filed before which agency climbs twenty-five to forty percent?

2. Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change is written by which of the following authors?

3. To gain support for the anti-abortion backlash, the media frame the struggle as:

4. Chapter 13, "The Wages of the Backlash" shows all of the following undermining the progress women make in the 1970s EXCEPT:

5. Which of the following occur following Reagan's second term in office?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly chronicle George Gilder's career in the feminist movement.

2. In Chapter 11, "The Backlash Brain Trust: From Neocons to Neofems," an author states that male academics in an era of "political correctness" are like "shell-shocked" Cambodian refugees. In addition, feminists change departments and courses, and hire only their own. Faludi, however, suggests that the data show a different reality for women in academia. List three to five of her arguments.

3. Summarize the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. battle with the EEOC?

4. As one of the czars under President Regan, Gary Bauer represents male politicians who attack feminism. These men attempt to serve the backlash vocally while being unable to do so in reality with their own families. Describe the contradiction for Bauer.

5. Highlight the 1980s battle against abortion and women's rights to control their reproductive rights.

6. In their advice manuals, Smart Women/Foolish Choices and Women Men Love/Women Men Leave, Melvin Kinder and Connell Cowan provide advice that is harmful to women. Give some examples of this advice and why it is harmful to women?

7. How does Sylvia Ann Hewlett attack and affect the ERA?

8. Recount the backlash's efforts to eliminate the effectiveness of the Women's Educational Equity Act.

9. In her tone and word use, Faludi defends Carol Gilligan as an unlucky researcher whose work is misused to support the backlash. Give three examples of where Faludi's tone or word use convey this message.

10. Provide a chronological discussion of how women and feminists battle against the American Psychiatric Association as it considers adding the term masochism to its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1985.

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