Feminism

Question 1

What is a version of difference feminism that challenges the domination of male culture?

Answer 1

Cultural feminism

Question 2

Who is the existential feminist thinker that argued society defined female characteristics and their roles?

Answer 2

De Beauvoir (Simone)

Question 3

What term describes the belief that women and men are biologically and culturally different and this should be celebrated?

Answer 3

Difference Feminism

Question 4

What argues for an elimination of cultural differences in the pursuit of absolute equality?

Answer 4

Equality feminism

Question 5

What does equality of opportunity mean?

Answer 5

Everyone having the same life chances in society

Question 6

What is the belief that biological differences between men and women lead to distinct differences in their fundamental nature?

Answer 6

Essentialism

Question 7

What focused the feminist movement on legal and political rights?

Answer 7

First-wave feminism

Question 8

What is the defining of certain roles/qualities and personality based on a person’s sex?

Answer 8

Gender

Question 9

What term describes men and women being treated the same and having full cultural equality within society?

Answer 9

Gender equality

Question 10

What describes women’s roles being pre-determined by society so that they are socialised to behave in a certain way?

Answer 10

Gender stereotypes

Question 11

Who is the early feminist thinker that argued for equality of opportunity and felt life as a housewife amounted to domestic slavery?

Answer 11

Gilman (Charlotte)

Question 12

Who is the third-wave/post modern feminist who came up with the idea of ‘intersectionality’ in Feminism?

Answer 12

hooks (bell)

Question 13

What is the idea that discrimination against women varies due to race, class and country?

Answer 13

Intersectionality

Question 14

What term describes treating everyone the same in the eyes of the law?

Answer 14

Legal equality

Question 15

What sees individualism as the basis of gender equality and looks to reform current systems?

Answer 15

Liberal feminism

Question 16

Who is the radical feminist who believed that sexual relationships and society enforced the patriarchy?

Answer 16

Millett (Kate)

Question 17

What is the term for a dislike for and contempt of women?

Answer 17

Misogyny

Question 18

What describes women being treated as an inferior minority who are subordinate to men?

Answer 18

Otherness

Question 19

What is a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it?

Answer 19

Patriarchy

Question 20

What term describes women having the same rights to vote and hold political office?

Answer 20

Political equality

Question 21

What argues that patriarchy manifests in different ways depending on a woman’s race, class, etc.?

Answer 21

Post-modern feminism

Question 22

What is the area of society where relationships are seen as private – centred on domestic life?

Answer 22

Private sphere

Question 23

What describes the visible aspects of life, such as the workplace and civic life?

Answer 23

Public sphere

Question 24

What believes that the biggest problem facing society is gender inequality and this can only be changed by a revolutionary change?

Answer 24

Radical feminism

Question 25

What is the idea that women constitute a spare workforce that can be called upon when required?

Answer 25

Reserve army of labour

Question 26

Who is the socialist feminist thinker who believed capitalism used women and needed to oppress them?

Answer 26

Rowbotham (Shelia)

Question 27

What looked to challenge gender roles and challenge the patriarchy?

Answer 27

Second wave feminism

Question 28

What is the biological difference between men and women?

Answer 28

Sex

Question 29

What believes that gender inequality stems from economics and that capitalism creates patriarchy?

Answer 29

Socialist feminism

Question 30

What is the early 20th century campaign to gain votes for women?

Answer 30

Suffrage campaign