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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. Hooks used this term to describe the feminist view of men that is not threatening.

2. What type of relationships does feminism place the emphasis on, according to hooks?

3. Hooks claims that feminist leaders must connect issues in other countries to issues where?

4. Hooks describes risky cosmetic surgery as occurring where?

5. Hooks describes which of the following as being the best example of anti-sexism thinking provided to children through the efforts of feminism?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does spirituality and religion play in feminism?

2. As long as the patriarchal system of dominance survives, what are the consequences that hooks describes?

3. What productive suggestions does hooks make for employment?

4. Describe a scenario in which somebody shows that patriarchal violence is acceptable.

5. Hooks claims that women who stayed at home often felt which way?

6. What does hooks describe as the challenge to freedom?

7. What is required for women to be liberated from Hooks' perspective?

8. What is the difference between a "woman-identified woman" and a "man-identified woman"?

9. What wisdom does hooks find that lesbians brought to the feminist movement?

10. Hooks claims that what changed the face of the feminist movement more than any other factor and why?

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 the difference between patriarchal violence and domestic violent according to hooks? Why does hooks prefer to use the term patriarchal violence? Do you agree with her? Why or why not?

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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