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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of funding does hooks suggest is a goal for the feminist movement in order to read a broad and diverse audience?

2. In what decade were women's studies on a solid course toward acceptance?

3. According to hooks, what gave permission for female bonding?

4. What is defined as gaining power by the exploitation of others?

5. According to hooks, who undermines the feminist movement by disingenuously making claim to it?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did conflict result as a matter of class and race in feminism?

2. How did professors help hooks and other students?

3. Which women had more access to contraceptives and abortions with the onset of the sexual revolution?

4. According to hooks, what is the ideal situation for women in terms of reproductive rights?

5. What convinced black feminists that the feminist movement was a "white power grab," according to hooks?

6. How did industries change as a result of changing women?

7. What effect did The Feminine Mystique have on feminism?

8. Describe the challenges to abortion rights brought by Christian groups.

9. Why does hooks say that a feminist is made, not born?

10. Why does hooks feel that white females were the first leaders of the feminist movement?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does hooks describe feminist parents? How can parenting be feminist? Why is feminist parenting significant to the feminist movement?

Essay Topic 2

How does hooks define sexism and oppression? Do you think that sexism and oppression have the same presence in modern culture as in the past? Why or why not? What does hooks seem to think, and how do you know?

Essay Topic 3

Is hooks right when she asserts that feminism is for everybody? Why or why not? Does hooks effectively support this assertion? Why or why not?

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