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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Hooks makes it clear that a "woman-identified woman" was not synonymous with which of the following?
2. What type of imperialism did hooks describe many feminist leaders as subscribing to?
3. Who or what are the victims of the patriarchal system hooks' describes?
4. Where are more women allegedly beaten and murdered?
5. By the 1990s, hooks claims that half the women in America were which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are two practices hooks described as originating from sexism and misogyny?
2. What types of violence constitute patriarchal violence?
3. What did the conservative press tend to say about feminists?
4. What are the consequences hooks describes of lacking sexual liberation?
5. Hooks claims that what changed the face of the feminist movement more than any other factor and why?
6. Hooks claims that patriarchal violence is based on what beliefs?
7. What impact did hooks describe visionary lesbians having on the feminist movement?
8. What were the benefits of sexual liberation, according to hooks?
9. How did hooks, and other women, recognize that sexual liberation and sexual promiscuity were not the same thing?
10. What role does spirituality and religion play in feminism?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are some ways that hooks suggests feminism can gain momentum? Which ideas seem most realistic or practical? Why?
Essay Topic 2
How does hooks define feminist masculinity? What role does feminist masculinity play in modern feminism and in general?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the role of feminism in the workplace as hooks portrays it. Is feminism every inappropriate for the workplace? Why or why not? What role should feminism play in the workforce in general? Why do you think this is so?
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