Feminism

Question 1

About eliminating the ________ of women to men, aiming to end men’s systematic domination.

Answer 1

Subordination

Question 2

Women’s rights convention in 1848. They demanded an end to tyranny within the household, being compelled to promise obedience, being denied the right to vote/property, education and unemployment opportunities.

Answer 2

Seneca Falls

Question 3

Lysistrata 411 BC.

Answer 3

Asserting women’s power by abstaining from having sex to end the war.

Question 4

A pacifist approach for peace to end the war. Power in politics. Women barricade the public funds building.

Answer 4

Sex strike

Question 5

Continuing injustice. There are fewer women in the world than should be, and these rates are high in South Asia, North Africa, and China.

Answer 5

Age specific mortality

Question 6

This is caused by a denial of access to basic/necessary nutrition and health care.

Answer 6

Gender inequality

Question 7

This was recently outlawed in India.

Answer 7

Sex selective abortion

Question 8

A liberal feminist who dies giving birth birth and was married to a famous utilitarian.

Answer 8

Mary Wollstonecraft

Question 9

Wollstonecraft authored this work in 1792, its first edition was about men written in 1790.

Answer 9

The Vindication of the Rights of Women

Question 10

Wollstonecraft supported this but criticized revolutionaries because their focus was only on:

Answer 10

Revolution, men

Question 11

Wollstonecraft believed women and men are equals in possessing this:

Answer 11

The capacity to reason

Question 12

Wollstonecraft believed that women were denied the basic exercise of these, such as in education.

Answer 12

Rational capacities

Question 13

Wollstonecraft believed women are oppressed by these, including education.

Answer 13

Social institutions

Question 14

Wollstonecraft believed this is needed to enable women to participate equally and realize their rationality legally.

Answer 14

Reform

Question 15

Wollstonecraft argued that the differences between women and men are ________, created by institutions.

Answer 15

Artificial/not natural

Question 16

Wollstonecraft emphasized that women are not sexual beings but:

Answer 16

Human beings

Question 17

Changing these, such as marriage and education will end in equality. Society is set up to mold women into this:

Answer 17

Institutions, false ideal

Question 18

Liberal feminists strive to overcome this, in marriage women become property, have to obey, and are denied education and the right to vote.

Answer 18

Overt discrimination

Question 19

What is the aim for liberal feminists?

Answer 19

To change laws and institutions

Question 20

What is the goal for liberal feminists?

Answer 20

To equalize opportunities for women and men with an emphasis on political equality

Question 21

When did women in Canada get the vote? Why?

Answer 21

Towards the end of the 1st world war because they showed that they were just capable of doing jobs that men did while at war

Question 22

The proportion of the women in this is less than one third in Canada:

Answer 22

The lower house

Question 23

Going beyond legal and political efforts to culture, to overcome sexist attitudes and beliefs.

Answer 23

Radical/2nd wave feminism

Question 24

Raising consciousness about women’s emotional nature, and assumptions in the way we think/talk.

Answer 24

Radical/2nd wave feminism

Question 25

Radical feminists believe that women are subject to these:

Answer 25

Their own internalized harmful attitudes and false beliefs

Question 26

Radicals emphasize this instead of more qualities between men and women.

Answer 26

Differences

Question 27

Radicals argue that women are not worse or better, but we have different:

Answer 27

Biological makeups and attitudes

Question 28

To radicals, this exists in terms of setting the debate. Careers are defined by men.

Answer 28

Male bias

Question 29

Radicals argue that we need to focus on these:

Answer 29

Basic values

Question 30

The Air We Breathe and the Structure and Values of American Society were authored by:

Answer 30

Catherine Mackinnon

Question 31

Mackinnon wrote about male perspectives, concerns, experiences, and the general assumptions that were slanted against the interests of women because:

Answer 31

Rules privilege men

Question 32

Mackinnon wrote about how women had no role in creating these, however women should not be bound by them if they have no part in creating them.

Answer 32

The rules of the game

Question 33

Mackinnon explored the idea of whether justice is gendered concept, and if women approach practical reason from a different perspective using this debate:

Answer 33

The justice-care perspective

Question 34

Mackinnon found that women value this, which is linked to mothering (intuitive, emotional) while men seek this as part of maturing (abstraction, dispassion).

Answer 34

Connectedness, separation

Question 35

Marriage is a contract for lifelong possession of sexual faculties. Who said it?

Answer 35

Kant

Question 36

A critique on the male centered account of moral development that children achieve abstract, impartial thinking at a certain age.

Answer 36

Gilligan's In a Different Voice

Question 37

What was Gilligan's claim in In a Different Voice?

Answer 37

Men and boys seek abstract rules

Question 38

Gilligan found that this is a kind of mathematical perspective for men/boys, which makes them partial to this:

Answer 38

Ethics/morals, justice

Question 39

Gilligan found that women consider these, in case by case moral reasoning, which makes them partial to this:

Answer 39

Particularities, care

Question 40

Should you steal the drug to save a life?

Answer 40

The Heinz dilemma

Question 41

In the Heinz dilemma, the boy suggests:

Answer 41

You should steal the drug because it is needed to save a life

Question 42

In the Heinz dilemma, the girl suggests:

Answer 42

You should try to reason with the pharmacist, in a more sophisticated, morally mature manner. More detail is needed.

Question 43

This is needed as a background to virtue.

Answer 43

Justice

Question 44

This is necessary to protection when women are vulnerable to or at risk of mistreatment.

Answer 44

Affirming rights

Question 45

These are needed because different voices don't systematically match men and women. We can take particulars into account.

Answer 45

Universal moral principles

Question 46

Choosing on non-relevant grounds.

Answer 46

Objectionable discrimination

Question 47

Rowbotham: this creates capitalism:

Answer 47

Male dominance

Question 48

What is the primary concern of political philosophy and the 1st virtue of society?

Answer 48

Encouraging people to become good citizens

Question 49

This is the last resort, and doesn't need to undermine virtue and care.

Answer 49

Justice

Question 50

Preferential hiring/admissions policies that allow freedom of occupational choice and equality but can be considered self contradictory.

Answer 50

Affirmative action

Question 51

Changes in household responsibility are likely to result in these:

Answer 51

Changes in household employment

Question 52

The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments was based on what document?

Answer 52

The Declaration of Independence

Question 53

Social feminists argue that women are not free until this is replaced with this:

Answer 53

Capitalism, socialism

Question 54

Anarchist feminists argue that women are oppressed if this exists:

Answer 54

The state

Question 55

What is the agent to liberal feminism?

Answer 55

Women

Question 56

What are the obstacles in liberal feminism?

Answer 56

Legal and institutional discrimination

Question 57

What is the goal of liberal feminism?

Answer 57

Equality of opportunity

Question 58

What are the obstacles in radical feminism?

Answer 58

Sexist beliefs and attitudes, male power systems

Question 59

What is the goal of radical feminism?

Answer 59

Power and respect for differences