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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. When some feminists within the movement sought to make the movement anti-male, what did hooks claim they deflected?
2. What kind of religions did many feminists look to in the early days of the movement?
3. Hooks describes the conservative solution for the hard life of working women as what?
4. What message does hooks attribute some feminists as being reluctant to send?
5. What type of man does hooks describe as feeling unimportant and out of control?
Short Essay Questions
1. What wisdom does hooks find that lesbians brought to the feminist movement?
2. Hooks claims that what changed the face of the feminist movement more than any other factor and why?
3. What did the conservative press tend to say about feminists?
4. What types of violence constitute patriarchal violence?
5. What are some important issues that feminists are concerned with in countries that are not the United States of America?
6. What is the difference between a "woman-identified woman" and a "man-identified woman"?
7. What relationship did white feminists have to feminism in other parts of the world, according to hooks?
8. What productive suggestions does hooks make for employment?
9. Hooks claims that patriarchal violence is based on what beliefs?
10. How did hooks, and other women, recognize that sexual liberation and sexual promiscuity were not the same thing?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the role of feminism in the workplace as hooks portrays it. Is feminism every inappropriate for the workplace? Why or why not? What role should feminism play in the workforce in general? Why do you think this is so?
Essay Topic 2
What is global feminism? What role does global feminism play in your life? What does hooks suggest feminists do to be involved with global movements?
Essay Topic 3
What are some ways that hooks suggests feminism can gain momentum? Which ideas seem most realistic or practical? Why?
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