Theories

Question 1

1st feminist text

Answer 1

A vindication of the rights of women 1792

Question 2

Mother of feminism

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Liberal feminism

Question 3

Liberal feminism focuses on

Answer 3

Women in the public sphere

Question 4

Which feminism takes a gender blind approach

Answer 4

Liberal feminism

Question 5

Liberal feminism holds that the key problem of gender inequality is

Answer 5

Domination of institutions by men

Question 6

John Stuart mill’s text

Answer 6

The subjection of women

Question 7

Who wrote the feminine mystique

Answer 7

Betty Friedan

Question 8

Equal pay act

Answer 8

Signed in 1963
By Kennedy
Same wage for males and females

Question 9

Title VII

Answer 9

Included in the civil rights act
Outlawed sexual discrimination in employment

Question 10

What is NOW

Answer 10

National Organisation for Women
Founded by Friedan and others
In 1966
Sought to end gender discrimination in the workplace an spearhead efforts to legalize abortion

Question 11

Title IX, 1972

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Barred sexual discrimination in any educational program

Question 12

Core issues that NOW addresses

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• reproductive issues
• violence against women
• constitutional equality
• promoting diversity
• lesbian rights
• economic justice

Question 13

Abortion was legalized in USA

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In 1973 by the SC in Roe Vs Wade case

Question 14

Glass ceiling

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A situation where women are not promoted when they are qualified just because they are women

Question 15

Slogan of radical feminism

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Private is politic

Question 16

First national women’s liberation conference

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In 1968 in Chicago

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1st rape crisis hotline in USA

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In 1972

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Radical fem is also referred to as

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Gynocentrism

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WITCH stands for

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Women’s International terrorist conspiracy from Hell

Question 20

Patriarchy

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A social system in which men hold the power and exert authority over women

Question 21

Types of rad fem

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Radical libertarian fem
Radical-cultural fem

Question 22

Rad-lib fem

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Advocates natural reproduction as a hindrance to women and their subsequent successes in a patriarchal society

Question 23

Androgyny

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Androgyny is the possession of both masculine and feminine characteristics in humans.

Question 24

Name the work of Shulamith Firestone

Answer 24

The dialectic of sex : the case for feminist revolution, 1970

Question 25

Brooders

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An imaginary artificial machine that fertilizes eggs and raise embryos

Question 26

Guerrilla girls

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An anonymous group of feminist female artists devoted to fight sexism and racism within the art world

Question 27

1st female speaker in the HOR in USA

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Nancy Pelosi in 2007