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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
1. Power feminism claims that women identifying as victims so frequently is part of the reason women are disadvantaged.
a. True
b. False
2. Revalorists choose to leave mainstream society and form separate communities that value women and are in harmony
with nature.
a. True
b. False
3. Lesbian feminists believe that it is not possible to reform America’s patriarchal culture.
a. True
b. False
4. Liberal feminist ideology claims that women and men are alike in all important respects and so should have equal
rights.
a. True
b. False
5. There is a common set of beliefs that all feminists share.
a. True
b. False
6. Intersectionality, the recognition that women differ in many ways including race, class, sexual orientation,
body shape and size, and (dis)ability, is a hallmark of first-wave feminism.
a. True
b. False
7. Women burned their bras to protest the Miss America pageant in 1968.
a. True
b. False
8. Womanists address issues that affect working and lower-class women.
a. True
b. False
9. Multiracial feminists argue that gender cannot be understood separate from other issues including race, ethnicity, class,
sexual orientation, etc.
a. True
b. False
10. The first women’s movement in the United States began in the 1960s.
a. True
b. False
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11. Which feminist group emphasizes that all oppressions, including those to non-human living things, are linked and that
to eliminate oppression of women we must also eliminate oppression of animals and the environment?
a. Revalorists
b. Ecofeminists
c. Lesbian feminists
d. Womanists
12. This feminist movement believes the key to understanding gender and identity is best understood by examining the
intersection of key elements of identity like gender, race-ethnicity, sexual orientation, and economic class. All women and
all men do not understand and experience gender in a universal way. This best describes which branch of feminism?
a. Lesbian feminism
b. Revalorism
c. Womanism
d. Multiracial feminism
13. What factors led to the development of liberal feminism?
a. The discrimination women experienced in New Left politics.
b. The publication of Susan Faludi’s Backlash.
c. The public protest at which women burned their bras.
d. The publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique.
14. Which wave of feminism focuses on intersectionality, coalitions and alliances, everyday resistance, media savvy,
consumerism and individualism?
a. Third wave
b. Second wave
c. First wave
d. Power feminism
15. What was the first example of an antifeminist movement?
a. Million Woman March
b. Antisuffrage
c. Surrendered Wife
d. Backlash
16. What types of strategies were used by the first wave of women’s rights activists in the United States?
a. Riots
b. Nonviolent protests and hunger strikes
c. Sit ins in the legislature
d. Violent protests
17. A group of women engages in consciousness raising “rap” sessions. During the rap sessions, women talk about
personal experiences with sexism and how these are related to social and political structures. Each woman has an equal
opportunity to speak, so that no one person can dominate the discussion. This group best represents which branch of
feminism?
a. Radical feminists
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b. Liberal feminists
c. Womanists
d. Separatists
18. What was/were the goal/s of the first wave of the women’s rights movement?
a. Woman suffrage − the right to vote.
b. Women’s right to higher education.
c. Women’s right to work in the professions.
d. All of the choices are correct.
19. Which of the following are accomplishments of the National Organization for Women (NOW)?
a. Advocacy for the prohibition of sex discrimination by federal contractors.
b. The documentation of sexism in the media.
c. Advocacy for the reformation of banking and credit practices that disadvantage women.
d. All of the choices are correct.
20. Women won the right to vote in 1920 in part because of the efforts of the members of the ____ movement, a group
that asserted women’s moral superiority.
a. Seneca Falls Convention
b. Revalorists
c. Cult of Domesticity
d. Women’s Suffrage Coalition
21. Cult of domesticity
22. Backlash
23. Multiracial feminism
24. Hip-hop feminism
25. Million Woman March
26. Antifeminism
27. Antisuffrage movement
28. Liberal feminism
29. Ecofeminism
30. Postfeminist era
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1. True
2. False
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24. Hip-hop feminism is a movement rooted in black feminism, and responsive to the concerns of the post–civil rights or
hip-hop generation. Not unlike other branches of third-wave, hip-hop feminists “recognize culture as a pivotal site for
political intervention to challenge, resist, and mobilize collectives to dismantle systems of exploitation.”
25. Powered by grassroots volunteers who built support in their localities, the steering committee of the Million Woman
March was made up not of celebrities but of average women who worked at unglamorous jobs and lived outside the
spotlight.
26. Antifeminism opposes changes in women’s roles, status, rights, or opportunities.
27. A movement that aimed, for example, to refuse women the right to vote.
28. Holds that women and men are alike and equal in most respects.
29. Ecofeminists assert there is a connection between the effort to control and subordinate women and the struggle to
dominate nature.
30. Feminism is no longer relevant or needed; assume that sexism has been fully eradicated.