Chapter 13-14 Politics and Conclusion

Question 1

Suffrage

Answer 1

The right to vote

Question 2

Abolitionists

Answer 2

Activists in the fight against human slavery

Question 3

Universal Suffrage

Answer 3

The right of all citizens to vote

Question 4

Radical Claim

Answer 4

An idea that doesn’t (yet) resonate with most members of a population

Question 5

Politics

Answer 5

Describes various activities involved in determining public policies, and electing people to guide this process

Question 6

Politics of Gender

Answer 6

How people change and resist change to the gender order

Question 7

Feminist Politics

Answer 7

Those involving efforts to make society’s gender difference and hierarchy and aims to prevent feminist change

Question 8

Anti-feminist Politics

Answer 8

Committed to the value of gender difference and hierarchy and aims to prevent feminist change

Question 9

Feminist Utopia

Answer 9

A perfectly gender-egalitarian society

Question 10

States

Answer 10

Institutions entrusted with the power to regulate everyday life on behalf of the group

Question 11

Governance

Answer 11

The process of making decisions for the nation, enforcing the laws of the land, and if the state is a democracy ensuring the state’s accountability to its citizens

Question 12

Governance of Gender

Answer 12

How the gender residents shape the way they are regulated

Question 13

Gender of Governance

Answer 13

Who holds political office and whether it matters

Question 14

Pro-natal Policy

Answer 14

Encourages childbearing, whether intentionally or not

Question 15

Anti-natal Policy

Answer 15

When states discourage childbearing

Question 16

Gender-aware policymaking

Answer 16

A practice of carefully considering the likely effects of a policy on both men and women as well as different kinds of men and women

Question 17

Equal Access

Answer 17

The approach to ending sexism focused on dismantling legal barriers and reducing sex discrimination

Question 18

Equal Value

Answer 18

Is designed to tackle the problem of androcentrism by raising the value of the feminine to match the value of the masculine

Question 19

Equal Sharing

Answer 19

Targets subordination by attempting to ensure that men and women participate equally in positions conventionally understood as masculine and feminine

Question 20

Standing

Answer 20

The right to represent herself and others in decisions being made

Question 21

Legislatures

Answer 21

Groups of individuals elected to represent their constituents in regulating the affairs of the country ranges from 0 to 56 percent

Question 22

Symbolic Representation

Answer 22

Women’s presence in government translate into substantive representation

Question 23

Substantive Representation

Answer 23

Policies important and helpful to women

Question 24

Social Movements

Answer 24

Collective, nongovernmental efforts to change societies

Question 25

Women’s Movements

Answer 25

Social movements organized by women for women

Question 26

Autonomous

Answer 26

Functioning independently

Question 27

Intersectional Feminist Activism

Answer 27

One that attends to the lived experiences of different kinds of women and men

Question 28

Individualism

Answer 28

Focused on the individual over the group

Question 29

Civic Awareness

Answer 29

A focus on the well-being of groups and societies as wholes

Question 30

Corporate co-optation of feminism

Answer 30

using feminist sounding language and imagery for marking purposes

Question 31

Nationalism

Answer 31

A belief in the superiority of one’s own country, its rightful dominance over others, and exclusionary policies that restrict citizenship by race, ethnicity, or religion

Question 32

Authoritarianism

Answer 32

A leadership style that celebrates patriarchal power and masculine aggression as national values