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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. George Gilder, a Reagan speechwriter, states that the women's movement does all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Supports male misogyny.
(b) Allows women to survive without husbands.
(c) Champions social welfare programs.
(d) Encourages women to work.

2. What is the purpose of the Hyde amendment?
(a) To require a husband's consent prior to an abortion.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) To block federal funding of abortions.
(d) To end legalized abortion.

3. In 1980 sex discrimination and other kinds of complaints filed before which agency climbs twenty-five to forty percent?
(a) NOW.
(b) The EEOC.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) The ERA.

4. Child abuse laws are extended to the fetus and "fetal neglect" bills flood legislatures as a result of which strategy?
(a) An attempt to humanize the fetus and neutralize the mother.
(b) The decision to provide fathers with a strategy to protect their unborn children.
(c) To reduce the number of US individuals addicted to drugs.
(d) The policy of allowing mothers to take precedence over the fetus.

5. Grant claims that Gilligan's In a Different Voice teaches her that the "______________" is the essence of being a woman.
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Discovery of self.
(c) Embracing of one's femininity.
(d) Quest for romance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following women is one of the co-authors of the book No More Lonely Nights?

2. According to Faludi, the 1980s are awash with books about women's special virtues of:

3. Which of the following two individuals does Faludi highlight as being unmarried while preaching that women should marry?

4. Which of the following women had oversight of the funding from the Women's Educational Equity Act?

5. According to Toni Grant, self-assertion for women is abnormal and relinquishing control is naturally feminine. Therefore, when women attempt to control their own destiny they are in fact showing that they are _____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Highlight Chapter 13's presentation of the prominent battle between NBC, ABC, and the women who choose to stand up to their policies?

2. Why is it an important fight for the women to challenge the use of the word masochism in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM))?

3. The media is highlighted as a field in which women see some of the worst progress. What evidence does Faludi use to support her claim?

4. In Chapter 11, "The Backlash Brain Trust: From Neocons to Neofems," an author states that male academics in an era of "political correctness" are like "shell-shocked" Cambodian refugees. In addition, feminists change departments and courses, and hire only their own. Faludi, however, suggests that the data show a different reality for women in academia. List three to five of her arguments.

5. When Faludi writes that New Right women are less "trapped in the backlash eddies," what does she mean?

6. In their advice manuals, Smart Women/Foolish Choices and Women Men Love/Women Men Leave, Melvin Kinder and Connell Cowan provide advice that is harmful to women. Give some examples of this advice and why it is harmful to women?

7. Discuss at least two of the implications of the fetal protection movement.

8. Highlight the 1980s battle against abortion and women's rights to control their reproductive rights.

9. Summarize the case of Angela Carder.

10. Chronicle the life of Connaught ("Connie") Marshner after she leaves college.

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