Week 12: Feminism and hermaneutics

Question 1

There are three important waves of feminism:

Answer 1

first-wave feminism, second-wave feminism, and third-wave feminism.

Question 2

The most important work of de Beauvoir that contributed to feminist theory is her work

Answer 2

The second sex

Question 3

an important figure for feminist theory because hers is the most extensive of all feminist writings, and that a large number of feminist theories of today draw from her work.

Answer 3

Simone de Beauvoir

Question 4

The first-wave feminists called for equality when it came to the:

Answer 4

political sector

Question 5

Second-wave feminism concentrated on the ____ pushing not for exact rights, but for social recognition and a new identity.

Answer 5

social sector

Question 6

distinguished itself from the second wave around issues of sexuality, challenging female heterosexuality and celebrating sexuality as a means of female empowerment.

Answer 6

third wave feminism

Question 7

a field of philosophy traces back to the early Greek thinkers when they sought to perceive the sustaining element of reality.

Answer 7

phenomenology

Question 8

The father of modern phenomenology is the philosopher____ who sought to develop a ‘phenomenological philosophy’ or a philosophy that could be the very foundation of all the sciences according to external observation of reality.

Answer 8

Edmund Husserl

Question 9

started out as interpretation of sacred texts, later being used for interpretation of things in general.

Answer 9

Hermeneutics

Question 10

Key thinkers of hermeneutics include:

Answer 10

Friedrich Ast, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and August Wolf.

Question 11

Key Thinker of hermaneutical phenomenology:

Answer 11

Hans Georg Gadamer

Question 12

Gadamer’s most famous work where he highlights his use of hermeneutics and the phenomenological underpinnings it has within.

Answer 12

Truth and method

Question 13

Other thinkers who gave varying interpretations of hermeneutic phenomenology include:

Answer 13

Martin Heidegger and Paul Ricoeur.

Question 14

a theory that

(1) emphasizes gender as key basis of structured inequality,
(2) challenges conventional distinctions between public and private,
(3) problematizes the fundamentally political relationship between gender and power

Answer 14

feminism

Question 15

Historical phenomena (or the world outside) is interpreted differently in proper context through one’s consciousness

Answer 15

Hermeneutic Phenomenology