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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the author's view, what is the result, or effect, of some successful feminists' particular relationship with power?
2. What has happened as a result of the form taken by the majority of feminist writing?
3. What is the author's main contention about work in Chapter Seven?
4. What represents true sexual liberty for the author?
5. Related to education, what does the author see as one of the primary goals of feminism?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Essay on the two Prefaces: Purpose and reception of author's work.
In the Prefaces to the first and second editions of Feminist Theory From Margin to Center by bell hooks, the author discusses the reasons for her work and how its reception has evolved.
1) Discuss the author's primary reasons for writing the book. Why is a perspective from the margins important? How might a person from the margins see things differently?
2) Next, discuss the book's initial reception and the possible reasons for it.
3) Has the attitude towards analyses of gender, race, and class changed within the feminist movement? Why and how?
Essay Topic 2
Essay on Ch. 11: Sexual liberation.
Sexual liberation comes across as problematic in Ch. 11.
1) Why is the (male-defined) idea of sexual liberation problematic for the author?
2) Does it seem like our contemporary society promotes sexual liberation? Give examples of why or why not.
3) In your opinion, does the author's promotion of freedom from conforming to one model, and tolerance towards all sexualities, go far enough in addressing, or redefining the male-defined models of sexual liberation?
Essay Topic 3
Essay on Ch. 5: Men and feminism.
In Ch. 5, the author looks at the relationship between men and the feminist movement.
1) Describe and discuss early feminist views of men as "the enemy."
2) What is the author's critique of this early view? How do race and class figure into her argument?
3) The author also makes the potentially controversial statement that "all men support and perpetuate sexism and sexist oppression in one form or another...."
What does she mean by this statement? Do you think that it is in conflict with her call to see men as comrades in the feminist struggle? Why or why not?
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