Quiz 3

A  It can be a quick moment and movement that flashes and goes

B  It can be an expression of a collective act of feminist protest

C  It is a response to pressure and tension, often unseen and enduring

D  All of these

E  It is hard to convey the pressure behind a woman’s snap to those who do not share the experience

A  It testifies to our difficult but unbreakable ties to the structure of family and ethnicity we come

B  It allows us to find a different political orientation and a different way of thinking about our place in the world. It testifies to our difficult but unbreakable ties to the structure of family and ethnicity we come

C  None of these

D  It allows us to find a different political orientation and a different way of thinking about our place in the world. It can be a moment that sets into motion a different type of family structure for those who are case out of traditional family structures

A  It is a point of origin, the place where our stories begin

B  It pressures us to inherit a certain logic of happiness and love in the life and family structure we should also reproduce

C  It dictates our aspirations and orients us toward the future

D  All of these

A  Resistance is always bigger than and wins over power

B  Power is much more creative than resistance 

C  All of these

D  Where there is power, there is resistance

A  How men are forced to be hunters and put their lives at risk for their families

B  How women make up stories that they share to make sense of the high rate of deaths amongst their male counterparts

C  How life for Bedouins is uncertain and full of dangers, especially for the men

D  How women find ways to mock and make fun of masculinity even as they live within a thickly patriarchal society

A  Every day acts of resistance, such as through poetry and daily acts of defying and making fun of male power

B  Telling men that they do not have rights over the children, or anything that has to do with nurturance

C  Fighting to change laws of the country to gain equal rights

D  Protesting on the streets of Egypt and refusing to be silenced

A  A nomadic community of people who live in Egypt’s Western desert and who are highly patriarchal

B  A group of men who are in the ruling party of Egyptian government

C  A nomadic community of people in which women are given very prominent roles and positions of power

D  An Egyptian group of women who are fighting to change laws that discriminate against women

A  none of these

B   becoming corporate CEOs and senior executives

C  documenting sexual harassment and discrimination

D  joining the military and running for elected office 

E  refusing to let the powerful define the meaning of ‘femaleness’

A  Women and feminists should think more consciously about how to transform power from “domination over” others to imagining new concepts of power and building alternative systems and that work toward liberation of all

B  Power is not something feminists pursue since it always leads to domination and destruction

C  The feminist movement has been the most successful movement in re-imagining what power within society could look like

D  A feminist revolution depends on women trying to gain power in all aspects of society so that they can become equal with men. 

A  It can improve the material conditions of a greater number of women but it will not necessarily root out systemic patriarchy

B  Create healthier life styles for all

C  Will have a great impact in changing legal discrimination against women 

D  Automatically prompt institutions to be responsive to women’s needs