Quiz 1

A  it looks at feminism as an effort to gain greater individual freedom like wealth and education

B  All of these

C  It is romantic idea of personal freedom without acknowledging the radical politics behind individual freedom

D  It downplays reduces the fact that feminism as a struggle to end sexism and reduces it to matter of individual choice and lifestyle

A  Some women do not want to associate themselves with or support any aspect of the women’s movement

B  many women’s homophobia makes them fear being associated with lesbianism if they call themselves feminists

C  some women associate the word with white women’s rights efforts and don’t want to sign on to what they perceived to be a racist and/or classist movement

D  the meaning of the word is not always clear to women

E  All of these

A  because liberal feminism is selfish

B  because liberal feminism does not demand an end to violence against women and children

C  because liberal feminism, however long its reforms, does not emphasize the eradication of the politics of domination

D  All of these

A  it is ignores the fact that under white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal; structures, it cannot be said that all men have power over all women

B  the main stream definition is a refusal to see the way people can be part of the oppressed and the oppressor group at the same time

C  In reality, this definition reflects only the interests of upper class white women

D  women do not share the same vision of what equality means

E  All of these

A  True

B  False

A  A movement to end sexist oppression and domination

B  The belief that feminist power cannot be achieved until women are educated

C  None of these

D  The belief that gender segregation doesn’t mean that women don’t have power in their sphere

A  That Native Americans must begin to learn U.S. history if they wish to become more successful and prominent

B  That the feminist idea of power stems from tribal Native American sources

C  That Native American political institutions learned much from French political institutions

D  That French travelers to the Iroquois nation were shocked to see the immense wealth gap between Native americans

A  All women were considered warriors or princesses

B  Many Iroquois women and Cherokee women were well known feminist writers and public speakers

C  All animals had female names and Iroquois women were considered keepers of the animals

D  The Iroquois constitution gives very prominent and powerful roles to women

A  Is similar to the Italian political system’s gender order

B  All of these

C  Is inherently egalitarian when it comes to owning property and voting

D  Is a product of American Indian ideas and practices even though most Americans do not recognize this

E  Is similar to the Chinese political system’s gender order

A  That a mother’s name is a means of locating an individual as a part of community and of life

B  That one’s mother had many names

C  That only women could own property and hence one’s mothers name indicated how much wealth an individual owned

D  That one could inherit property from that father’s while keeping mother’s last name