Feminist Theory Test Questions
Course Introduction
Feminist Theory is an interdisciplinary course that explores the development, key concepts, and major debates within feminist thought. Students will examine foundational and contemporary texts to understand how feminism addresses issues of gender, power, identity, and social justice. The course covers a range of theoretical approaches, including liberal, radical, Marxist, intersectional, postcolonial, and queer feminisms, and considers their implications for understanding and challenging systems of oppression. Through critical analysis, discussion, and writing, students will engage with the intersections of feminism with race, class, sexuality, and global dynamics, fostering a nuanced appreciation of the diversity and complexity within feminist scholarship and activism.
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Gendered Lives 11th Edition by Julia T. Wood
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Chapter 1: The Study of Communication Gender and Culture
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Q1) Rick was born with male and female sex organs.Which of the following is the best term to describe Rick as a person with biological qualities of a male and a female?
A) transsexuals
B) intersexed
C) transgendered
D) gender rebels
E) dualsexed
Answer: B
Q2) The author of your textbook talks about privileges and disadvantages that are part of her social location (and standpoint)that she did not earn and explains how they shape how she sees the world.Choose one privilege and one disadvantage that is part of your social location and explain how it shapes how you see the world.
Answer: Responses will vary depending on the social location selected.Students may choose to talk about their race,gender,sex,sexuality,religion or spirituality,class,geographic location,or other marker.They should be specific in their explanation.
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Chapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to Gender Development
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Q1) Children learn who they are and what that means in their culture through interaction with parents,teachers,and friends.Through this,they learn gender roles for men and women and may internalize them.Which theory does this definition best describe?
A) cognitive development
B) social learning
C) psychodynamic (or psychoanalytic)
D) biological
E) symbolic interactionism
Answer: E
Q2) Queer theory
Answer: Queer theory critiques conventional categories of identity and cultural views of "normal" and "abnormal" particularly in relation to sexuality.To queer theory,labels like man,woman,gay,and straight are meaningless and misleading.
Q3) Social learning theory suggests that children actively seek to perform their gender correctly.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Competing Images of Women
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Q1) 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
E) a desire to bring women's moral perspectives to politics
Answer: D
Q2) 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) women's right to own property
E) all of the above
Answer: E
Q3) Third-wave feminism
Answer: Third-wave feminism includes women of diverse ethnicities,abilities,classes,appearances,sexual orientations,and gender identities.Third-wave feminism is characterized by a recognition of intersectionality,the building of coalitions and alliances,acts of everyday resistance,cultivating media savvy,acceptance of consumerism,and an emphasis on individualism.
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Chapter 4: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Competing Images of Men
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Q1) The Promise Keepers developed in response to a horrific act of violence against women that took place in Montreal (sometimes referred to as the Montreal Massacre).
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements is true of men's rights activists?
A) They aim to educate men about socialization that links masculinity to violence and aggression to motivate them to reject violence.
B) They voice public support for women's rights and men's personal development.
C) They engage in interpersonal persuasion to convince friends and coworkers to alter discriminatory attitudes and practices.
D) They believe that violence against women is not just a women's issue.
E) They aim to restore the traditional roles of men and women, and with that the privileges that men historically enjoyed.
Q3) Describe what is meant by a traitorous identity.Then,either hypothetically or from your own experience,describe a scenario in which someone performs a traitorous identity.Why do you think this behavior is difficult for some people? Why is it important to perform?
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Chapter 5: Gendered Verbal Communication
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Q1) Women tend to interrupt others more than men.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When home on break,you hear a friend use male-generic language.When you tell your friend it is sexist,your friend wants to know why.Based on what you have learned in this class,how might you explain to your friend that using such language is problematic?
Q3) Children's play is very important in how they become socialized into speech communities.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Women who are effective public speakers tend to
A) adopt a masculine style of speaking.
B) adopt a feminine style of speaking.
C) adopt a style of speaking that balances masculine and feminine stylistic factors.
D) adopt a style of speaking that is gender neutral; there are no masculine or feminine aspects to their style.
E) Women are almost never considered effective public speakers.
Q5) Stereotype
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Chapter 6: Gendered Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) The CEO at the company you work for has a spacious corner office all to herself while the rest of the employees share offices or work in cubicles.What form of nonverbal communication is indicating a power differential here?
A) kinesics
B) haptics
C) proxemics
D) territoriality
E) environmental factors
Q2) Haptics
Q3) According to research presented in the Gendered Lives text,which of the following is true about smiling?
A) Women generally smile more than men.
B) Smiling is an example of haptics.
C) African American women are socialized to smile more than Caucasian women.
D) Men generally smile more than women.
E) Research has shown that men and women smile about the same amounts.
Q4) What is the relationship level of meaning and how is it conveyed nonverbally? In your answer,be sure to define the three dimensions of relationship level meaning and give examples of each.
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Chapter 7: Becoming Gendered: The Early Years
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Q1) Identify the themes (or elements)of what it means to be feminine in the United States.As part of your explanation,be sure you provide brief,concrete examples for the five themes.Finally,discuss <u>one</u> way that parental/guardian communication about gender (as discussed inChapter 7 of Gendered Lives)may influence understanding of one or more of these themes.
Q2) Female babies tend to identify with their mothers and male babies tend to identify with their fathers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What has research found about social aggression in girls?
A) It is often physical.
B) It includes spreading rumors.
C) It happens very infrequently.
D) It has decreased in the last 5 years.
E) It tends to end by the time girls are in high school.
Q4) Gender identity
Q5) "Anatomy is destiny"
Q6) Ego boundaries
Q7) According to psychoanalytical theory,how do most boys develop their gender identity?
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Chapter 8: Gendered Education: Communication in Schools
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Q1) Boys are more likely than girls to complete high school.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Peer pressure enacted by college women emphasizes being attractive to men over class work and career preparation.In addition,some female college students discover that their career goals are not taken seriously.These factors comprise _________,which researchers believe help explain these young women's lower ambitions after college.
A) effortless perfection
B) the culture of romance
C) the hidden curriculum
D) both A and B
E) none of the above
Q3) Male and female Chinese students outscore U.S.students of both sexes on math tests.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Title IX
Q5) Culture of romance
Q6) Gender-stereotyped curricula
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Chapter 9: Gendered Close Relationships
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Q1) Kaitlin and her partner Adam have spent a lot of time fighting and avoiding each other recently.Kaitlin is upset about the situation and wants to fix the problem.Adam doesn't seem to have noticed that anything is wrong.Kaitlin takes it upon herself to start a conversation with Adam about their issues.This reflects Kaitlin and Adam's
A) tension between autonomy and connection.
B) differing ways of showing affection.
C) gendered responsibility for relational health.
D) gendered power dynamics.
E) none of the above.
Q2) Describe the division of labor in a typical heterosexual household.Why does the division exist in this form? Do you think it is possible for the division of labor in the home to be exactly equal? Why or why not?
Q3) Lesbians report greater satisfaction with their romantic relationships than either gay men or heterosexuals.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Feminine ruler:
Q5) Male deficit model
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Chapter 10: Gendered Organizational Communication
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Q1) Equal opportunity laws
A) apply to groups, not individuals, that have suffered discrimination.
B) deal only with the present-not historical-discrimination.
C) are judged by results, not intent.
D) are the same thing as affirmative action.
E) state how many minorities must be hired, promoted, or admitted at an institution.
Q2) Informal networks
Q3) Glass walls
Q4) Fortune 500 companies that have a strong record of promoting women to executive levels outperform other Fortune 500 companies.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Both Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin were judged based on their adherence (or lack thereof)to the sex object stereotype during the 2008 U.S.presidential campaign.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Lilly Ledbetter:
Q7) Workplace bullying
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Chapter 11: Gendered Media
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Q1) Which of the following is true about the use of social media for activism?
A) It is rarely effective.
B) Women are more likely than men to use social media for activism.
C) In 2012, activists were able to effectively pressure the Susan G. Komen foundation to change their decision to defund Planned Parenthood.
D) Social media activism is expensive and difficult to implement.
E) All of the above.
Q2) Research indicates that watching sexually explicit films that degrade women
A) is reported by a majority of convicted rapists as a regular activity prior to incarceration.
B) is significantly correlated to viewing habits of women in violent romantic relationships. C) is related to men becoming more dominant toward women with whom they interact.
D) has no impact on men's views towards women.
E) has no impact on women's understanding of their relationships with men.
Q3) Agenda-setting
Q4) Pathologizing the human body
Q5) Media saturation
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Chapter 12: Gendered Power and Violence
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Q1) Children who grow up in families with one or more abusive adults are generally not affected by that violence.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Gender intimidation
Q3) Physical,verbal,emotional,sexual,and visual brutality that is inflicted disproportionately or exclusively on members of one sex is best defined as
A) sexual slavery.
B) a rape script.
C) intimate partner violence.
D) gender intimidation.
E) gendered violence.
Q4) Genital mutilation does not occur in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Blaming the victim
Q6) What is reproductive violence? What are some specific examples of reproductive violence in action?
Q7) Cycle of abuse
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Chapter 13: Epilogue: Looking Backward,
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Q1) Agenda-setting is an important way to influence cultural views of gender.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements about difference does your book support?
A) Difference causes strife in organizations.
B) We should seek to minimize differences and emphasize commonalities.
C) Diversity already exists, and it can be a tool to enrich relationships and organizations.
D) Diversity is declining in the United States.
E) The melting pot is the best metaphor to describe difference in the United States.
Q3) Direct power
Q4) "Salad bowl" metaphor
Q5) Making time to think about issues raised in this book is part of developing your voice. A)True
B)False
Q6) Voice
Q7) Agenda-setting
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