Feminist Theory from Margin to Center Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 20:

1.

For the author, if "we" are to transform our present reality, what must happen? (from Chapter 12)

The world we most intimately know and feel safe in must end.

We must embrace our enemies.

We cannot truly change out present reality without creating complete chaos.

We must elect a female president.

2.

Why does the author hold her particular beliefs about prioritizing struggles against different forms of prejudice? (from Chapters 2 and 3)

She holds her views because she needs to maintain her standing in the academic community.

As a black woman, she feels that race is a more pressing matter than feminism.

All are ultimately as destructive of society and the individual as the other.

Because she is a women, she places gender issues first.

3.

What is the main topic of discussion in Chapter Eleven, "Ending Female Sexual Oppression." (from Chapters 10 and 11)

Sexual harassment in the work place.

Prostitution.

Sexuality and sexual expression.

Pornography.

4.

How did women working for change initially view the exercise of power? (from Chapters 6 and 7)

As a rejection of femininity.

As a luxury.

As something negative.

As something to strive for.

5.

According to the author, challenges to to sisterhood can exist between white women and women of color; between which other groups does she say that they can exist? (from Chapters 4 and 5)

Challenges to sisterhood do not really occur between other groups of women.

Between women from different universities.

Between different groups of non-white women, women of different classes and/or races/ethnicities, and women of different sexual orientations.

Only between women from different social classes.

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