Finals

Question 1

where individuals in a society do not have equal social status.

Answer 1

social inequality

Question 2

tension or antagonism which exists in
society due to competing socioeconomic interests
and desires between people of different class.

Answer 2

conflict theory

Question 3

comprised women’s suffrage
movements of the nineteenth and early

twentieth centuries, promoting women’s
right to vote.

Answer 3

First wave

Question 4

associated with the ideas and
actions of the women’s liberation movement
beginning in the 1960s.

campaigned for legal and social
equality for women.

Answer 4

Second wave

Question 5

continuation of, and a
reaction to, the perceived failures of
second-wave feminism, beginning in the
1990s.

Answer 5

third wave

Question 6

feminist thought links ideas to action, insisting
we should push for change toward gender

equality and not just talk about it.

Answer 6

working to increase equality

Question 7

Feminists believe that both men and women should have the
freedom to develop their human interests and talents, even if
those interests and talents conflict with the status quo.

For example, if a woman wants to be a mechanic, she should
have the right and opportunity to do so.

Answer 7

expanding human choice

Question 8

feminists oppose laws and cultural
norms that limit income, educational
and job opportunities for women

Answer 8

eliminate gender stratification

Question 9

Feminists feel that women should have
control over their sexuality and
reproduction.

Answer 9

ending sexual violence and promoting sexual freedom

Question 10

focuses on women’s ability
to maintain their equality through their own
actions and choices. They argue that society holds
the false belief that women are, by nature, less
intellectually and physically capable than men.

Answer 10

liberal feminism

Question 11

focuses upon both the
public and private spheres of a woman’s life and
argues that liberation can only be achieved by
working to end both the economic and cultural
sources of women’s oppression.

Answer 11

social feminism

Question 12

calls for a reordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts. They seek to abolish patriarchy by challenging the notion of traditional gender roles, opposing the sexual objectification of women, and raising public awareness about such issues as rape and violence against women.

Answer 12

radical feminism