Feminism

Question 1

What is intersectionality?

Answer 1

Acceptance that different women have different experiences of patriarchy based on race and income

Question 2

Give an example of intersectionality caused by the government through the NHS

Answer 2

Black women are four times more likely to die than white women six weeks after giving birth

Question 3

What is the pay gap between men and women working for the BBC?

Answer 3

9.4%

Question 4

Who was Neil Parish (tractor enthusiast)?

Answer 4

MP who was caught watching pornography in parliament

Question 5

What was Angela Rayner accused of by the conservatives?

Answer 5

Intentionally distracting Boris Johnson by crossing and uncrossing her legs during debates

Question 6

What event happened in 2021 that saw the metropolitan police being accused of institutionalised sexism?

Answer 6

The murder of Sarah Everard

Question 7

What happened to the six women protesting the death of Sarah Everard during lockdown restrictions?

Answer 7

Their charges were dropped

Question 8

What did Friedrich Engels say regarding capitalism and the patriarchy?

Answer 8

“The move from matriarchy to patriarchy coincided with the arrival of capitalism”

Question 9

What is a matriarchy?

Answer 9

Society that is ran by women

Question 10

Name the four branches of feminism

Answer 10

Liberal
Socialist
Radical
Post Modern

Question 11

Name three Liberal feminists

Answer 11

Mary Wollstonecraft
Betty Freidan
John Stuart Mill

Question 12

Name three Socialist feminists

Answer 12

Shelia Rowbotham
Friedrich Engels
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Question 13

Name two radical feminists

Answer 13

Kate Millet
Germaine Grear

Question 14

Name a post-modern feminist

Answer 14

bell hooks

Question 15

Name a difference feminist

Answer 15

Mary Daly

Question 16

What did Daly say in regards to women?

Answer 16

Differences such as childbearing should be celebrated

Question 17

When were women given the vote?

Answer 17

1928 through the equal franchise act

Question 18

What is a quote by Shelia Rowbotham that explains how to remove the patriarchy?

Answer 18

“revolution within a revolution”

Question 19

What did Gilman say about women and labour?

Answer 19

“women are tools of labour, but so are horses”

Question 20

What does Gilman suggest will eradicate injustices in the private sphere?

Answer 20

Communal housing

Question 21

What is the main criticism of other feminist’s from post-moderns?

Answer 21

Criticise other feminists for making women a homogenous group

Question 22

Give an example of intersectionality in discrimination in 2015?

Answer 22

Nadiya Hussain was attacked online after winning the bake off for being a woman as well as being Muslim and Bangladeshi

Question 23

State a bell hooks quote surrounding intersectionality

Answer 23

“when women are talked about, the focus tends to be on white women”

Question 24

What does Kate Millet reject?

Answer 24

traditional marriage

Question 25

How does Kate Millet reject traditional marriage?

Answer 25

through a sexual revolution

Question 26

What does Germaine Grear suggest about men’s unconscious desires?

Answer 26

Men have a loathing for women due to normalisation of female sex within society

Question 27

What did John Stuart Mill write regarding his feminist views?

Answer 27

The Subjection of women in 1869

Question 28

State a quote by John Stuart Mill

Answer 28

“The legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself”

Question 29

How many MP’s are female in 2023?

Answer 29

225