Chapter 17

Question 1

Breadwinner is a traditionally masculine word of working in the public sphere for wages and of providing for the economic needs of the family.

a. True
b. False

Answer 1

True

Question 2

02) The Gender Development Index seeks to measure the quality of development factoring in gender
inequality.
a. True
b. False

Answer 2

True

Question 3

03) Feminism was generally a political movement first and academic theory second.
a. True
b. False

Answer 3

True

Question 4

04) Feminism is a solely Western phenomenon.
a. True
b. False

Answer 4

False

Question 5

Women’s role in the myth of protection shelters them form violence during warfare

a. True
b. False

Answer 5

False

Question 6

06) The percentage of women in national parliaments worldwide (2012 data) is:
a. 1.56%.
b. 5%.
c. 15.1%.
d. 28%.

Answer 6

c. 15.1%.

Question 7

In what year was the first UN women conference

a. 1919
b. 1943
c. 1961
d. 1975

Answer 7

d. 1975

Question 8

08) Feminists disagree over:
a. whether women are subordinate.
b. why women are subordinated.
c. who subordinates them.
d. nothing.

Answer 8

b. why women are subordinated.

Question 9

09) Masculinity and femininity are ________ concepts.
a. radical
b. relational
c. social
d. sexual

Answer 9

b. relational

Question 10

10) Feminists believe gender should be:
a. a descriptive category.
b. an analytical tool.
c. irrelevant.
d. a descriptive category and an analytical tool.

Answer 10

d. a descriptive category and an analytical tool.

Question 11

WHo asked where are the women

a. Cynthia Enloe
b. V. Spike Petersen
c. Margaret Thatcher
d. J. Ann Tickner

Answer 11

a. Cynthia Enloe

Question 12

12) The difference between liberal and postliberal feminists is in their attitude toward:
a. the effect of legal equality.
b. the possibility for emancipation.
c. postmodernism.
d. The role of men in women’s subordination

Answer 12

a. the effect of legal equality.

Question 13

) The Decade for Women led to the creation of what network?

a. Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era.
b. National Organization for Women.
c. Women in Development.
d. Feminism.

Answer 13

a. Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era.

Question 14

4) What war strategy particularly challenges the protection myth?
a. Genital mutilation.
b. Execution of women.
c. War rape.
d. Systematic beatings and brandings.

Answer 14

c. War rape.

Question 15

Which event in the 1990’s helped to put women’s issues on the global agenda for years to come?
15)
a. Vienna Human Rights Conference 1993
b. UN General Assembly Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women 1979
c. Cairo International Conference on Population and Development 1994
d.Bejing Women’s conference 1995

Answer 15

d.Bejing Women’s conference 1995