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Which of the following describes the relations of ruling?
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| | A) | They are the complex, nonmonolithic, but intricately connected social activities that attempt to control human social production.
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| | B) | They are biological determinants of gender difference.
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| | C) | They are deep-seated emotional structures that are formed in childhood and infancy.
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| | D) | They are feminist theories that assert the positivity of womanhood.
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Feminist theorists think of gender as:
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| | A) | a euphemism for women.
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| | B) | a euphemism for men.
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| | C) | socially constructed male and female roles, relations, and identities.
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| | D) | biologically endowed genitalia.
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Cultural feminism is an example of a theory of:
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| | A) | gender difference.
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| | B) | capitalist exploitation.
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| | C) | gender oppression.
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| | D) | phenomenological analysis.
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Which of the following is a concept employed by socialist feminists?
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| | A) | the Protestant ethic
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| | B) | the rationalization of society
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| | C) | the juggernaut of gender
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| | D) | capitalist patriarchy
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Which of the following best describes the view of intersectionality theory?
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| | A) | Women experience oppression in varying configurations and in varying degrees of intensity.
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| | B) | The oppression of women stems solely from capitalism.
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| | C) | The oppression of women does not vary according to global location, age, or sexual orientation.
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| | D) | Men are evil, and women are good.
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Which of the following is NOT an example of a gender-difference theory?
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| | A) | radical feminism
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| | B) | cultural feminism
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| | C) | institutionalization and socialization
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| | D) | existential analysis
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Jane Addams was a(n):
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| | A) | neo-Marxist feminist.
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| | B) | advocate of patriarchy.
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| | C) | proponent of cultural feminism.
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| | D) | African-American intersectionality theorist.
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Which of the following is Feminism's most basic question?
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| | A) | And what about capitalism?
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| | B) | And what about the women?
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| | C) | And what about the colonization of the lifeworld?
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| | D) | And what about gender?
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The "outsider within" refers to which of the following?
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| | A) | an act of definition within a subordinated group to establish that a group member is unacceptable
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| | B) | capitalist patriarchy
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| | C) | Georg Simmel's notion of the stranger
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| | D) | the experience of group members when they move from the home group into the larger society
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Which of the following describes vectors of oppression and privilege?
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| | A) | They are arrangements of inequality.
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| | B) | They are spaces and places of consumption.
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| | C) | They are a means of production.
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| | D) | They are an example of Mead's I and Me.
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Liberal feminists believe that gender equality can be achieved by:
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| | A) | smashing the state.
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| | B) | returning to a state of nature.
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| | C) | re-patterning key institutions such as education.
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| | D) | establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat.
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Which of the following is affirmed by radical feminism?
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| | A) | the positive value of women
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| | B) | the negative value of women
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| | C) | the negative value of capitalism
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| | D) | the positive value of rationalization
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Simone de Beauvoir's book The Second Sex is an example of which of the following? |
| | A) | liberal feminism |
| | B) | othering |
| | C) | cultural feminism |
| | D) | existential analysis |
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What is the major object of feminist theory?
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| | A) | the situations and experiences of women in society
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| | B) | culture and agency
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| | C) | the dialectic between culture and tastes
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| | D) | endocolonization
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Which of the following statements describes patriarchy?
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| | A) | It is the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists.
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| | B) | It is a system in which men subjugate women.
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| | C) | It is a form of interaction in which one person hides the truth from others.
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| | D) | It is a system in which core regions dominate the periphery.
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Psychoanalytic feminism draws from and reformulates the work of which of the following thinkers?
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| | A) | Georg Simmel
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| | B) | Sigmund Freud
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| | C) | Max Weber
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| | D) | Emile Durkheim
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__________________ and __________________ are the two major variants of structural-oppression theory.
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| | A) | Structuration theory / social feminism
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| | B) | Structuration theory / socialist feminism
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| | C) | Exchange theory / neo-liberal feminism
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| | D) | Socialist feminism / intersectionality theory
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For radical feminists, patriarchy exists as a near-universal social form because:
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| | A) | men control the means of production.
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| | B) | men can muster physical force to establish control.
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| | C) | men are smarter than women.
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| | D) | multiple-choice exams favor men.
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Which of the following destroyed Jesse Bernard's faith in science?
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| | A) | the Holocaust
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| | B) | patriarchy
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| | C) | witchcraft
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| | D) | a blow to the head
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Most feminist theorists believe that gender is:
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| | A) | socially constructed.
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| | B) | an iron cage of rationality.
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| | C) | irrelevant.
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| | D) | a fundamental concept in the writings of Marx and Engels.
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According to Jesse Bernard, there are two marriages in any institutional marriage.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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Vectors of oppression and privilege include class, race, and age.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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The sexual division of labor in modern societies dictates that women are given the primary responsibility for the public sphere.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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Othering erodes the potential for forming coalitions and resisting oppression.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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Psychoanalytical feminists explain women's oppression in terms of women's deep emotional need to control men.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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Radical feminists see in every institution systems of oppression in which some people dominate others.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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Cultural materialism is a tenet of liberal feminism.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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Patricia Hill Collins is a liberal feminist.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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Feminist theory is critical and activist on behalf of women.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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Socialist feminism focuses on gender differences.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education