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Why is diversity a challenge for modern feminism? |
| | A) | Feminism does not place a high value on including the voices of those excluded by society. |
| | B) | Women of color do not feel oppressed because of their gender. |
| | C) | White, middle-class women object only to oppression based on gender. |
| | D) | Race, class, and gender are tied together in ways that make working-class and minority women disadvantaged in different ways from middle-class white women. |
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Why are feminist epistemologists suspicous of the concept of the ideal knower as dispassionate, objective, and purely rational? |
| | A) | These qualities are of no value in the pursuit of knowledge and truth. |
| | B) | Too many real people are like that, and they don't know much. |
| | C) | This makes the ideal knower rather like the ideal male. |
| | D) | They aren't suspicious of this concept at all. |
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According to Val Plumwood, how does the rationalistic framework view the human self? |
| | A) | As dependent, connected, and altruistic. |
| | B) | As socially constructed. |
| | C) | As autonomous, separate, and egoistic. |
| | D) | As a pure Cartesian ego. |
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According to Mary Wollstonecraft, which of the following virtues should be cultivated in women as well as men? |
| | A) | docility |
| | B) | dependence |
| | C) | wisdom |
| | D) | sensitivity |
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How do feminists like Andrea Dworkin and Ctharine MacKinnon define pornography? |
| | A) | Media that intends primarily to create sexual arrousal in men and women. |
| | B) | Media that both equates sex and violence against women, and endorses it. |
| | C) | Media that has no redeeming literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. |
| | D) | Media that blatantly disregards the sexual mores that currently exists in society. |
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What tends to be true of words associated with women, their occupations, and their bodies in a male-dominated society? |
| | A) | They get devalued and take on demeaning, derogatory, and insulting senses. |
| | B) | They get reified into objects beyond the human realm. |
| | C) | They vanish from the conversational landscape. |
| | D) | They get transformed into male virtues. |
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What is true of woman, according to Simone de Beauvoir? |
| | A) | Woman is a biological category. |
| | B) | Woman is not born but made by society's definition of her as man's Other. |
| | C) | Woman is less mysterious than man. |
| | D) | Any lifestyle a woman chooses is okay as long as it really is her free choice. |
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What do supporters of the "Androgynous Ideal" believe about the differences we observe between men and women? |
| | A) | They are deeply imbedded in nature. |
| | B) | They are biological. |
| | C) | They are an illusion. |
| | D) | They are socially constructed. |
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According to Nancy Chodorow, why do boys often become isolated, separate, and misogynist? |
| | A) | Boys are naturally this way due to the presence of greater amounts of testosterone. |
| | B) | They are often teased and rejected by girls at a young age. |
| | C) | Society requires that boys break personal identification with the mother in order to positionally identify with male gender roles imposed by society. |
| | D) | Mass media, advertising, and entertainment combine to produce this result. |
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Which position does Susan Moller Okin advocate? |
| | A) | Nozick's entitlement theory of justice. |
| | B) | Communitarian ethics. |
| | C) | An ethics of care. |
| | D) | The modern, middle-class family is an unjust institution for women. |
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education