What sort of feminist was De Beauvoir?

Question 1

What sort of feminist was De Beauvoir?

Answer 1

Existential and liberal`

Question 2

What does bad faith mean?

Answer 2

Failing to impose one’s will

Question 3

What does authenticity mean?

Answer 3

Successfully imposing one’s will

Question 4

What does Other mean for De Beauvoir?

Answer 4

The idea of otherness what men have created to characterise women as different (according to men’s choosing, not their own).

Question 5

What is De Beauvoir’s best known work?

Answer 5

The Second Sex

Question 6

One is not _____, but rather _____ a woman. Fill in the gaps.

Answer 6

One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.

Question 7

Who said this…One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.

Answer 7

De Beauvoir

Question 8

When does de Beauvoir argue that women’s freedom is taken away from them?

Answer 8

At birth.

Question 9

What sort of liberation did De Beauvoir argue women needed to secure first?

Answer 9

Sexual liberation

Question 10

Which later liberal feminist did De Beauvoir influence?

Answer 10

Friedan

Question 11

What is the title of Millett’s best known book and when was it published?

Answer 11

Sexual Politics, 1970.

Question 12

What sort of liberation did Millett argue women needed to secure first?

Answer 12

Sexual

Question 13

How did Millett describe heterosexual relationships?

Answer 13

As political because men dominate women in them.

Question 14

Who said…Patriarchy was a ‘social constant’ running through political, social and economic structures

Answer 14

Millett

Question 15

What did Millett say was society’s chief patriarchal institution?

Answer 15

Family

Question 16

What sort of a feminist was Millett?

Answer 16

Radical

Question 17

How did Greer explain why men oppress women?

Answer 17

Men hate women and that’s why they oppress them

Question 18

Which word beginning with a C describes how Greer views what men have done to women?

Answer 18

Castrated

Question 19

What does Greer say women have been taught by the patriarchal society?

Answer 19

Women have been taught to hate themselves so willinging accept inferior positions

Question 20

How does Firestone describe the history of civilisation?

Answer 20

A dialectic between men and women

Question 21

How did Firestone describe pregnancy?

Answer 21

“pregnancy is barbaric”

Question 22

What did Firestone was the main source of female oppression?

Answer 22

Women’s childbearing role

Question 23

What did she say biological reproduction should be replaced with?

Answer 23

Artificial reproduction, i.e. in a lab

Question 24

What did Millett say the nuclear family should be replaced with?

Answer 24

Communal child-rearing and living.

Question 25

What did Greer claim that sexual liberation would achieve for women?

Answer 25

They would stop hating themselves.

Question 26

Do radical feminists see men a being important in the feminist utopia?

Answer 26

No.

Question 27

What is redundant male theory?

Answer 27

A view prevalent amongst radical feminists who claim that society should be transformed along the basis of feminine values. Within such a society males would effectively become redundant with no real purpose.

Question 28

Who coined the term intersectionality?

Answer 28

Crenshaw

Question 29

When did Crenshaw first talk about intersectionality?

Answer 29

1989

Question 30

What does this quote describe?
“XXX is what occurs when a woman from a minority group . . . tries to navigate the main crossing in the city. . . . The main highway is “racism road.” One cross street can be Colonialism, then Patriarchy Street. . . . She has to deal not only with one form of oppression but with all forms, those named as road signs, which link together to make a double, a triple, multiple, a many layered blanket of oppression.”

Answer 30

Intersectionality

Question 31

Who asserts that…asserts that one cannot separate race from gender, history and class when considering a person’s freedom?

Answer 31

bell hooks

Question 32

What does bell hooks blame for…the systematic practice of rape against black women, and this system established an enduring “social hierarchy based on race and sex.”

Answer 32

The legacy/history of slavery

Question 33

What is the most radical of bell hooks’ ideas?

Answer 33

That patriarchy has taught women to hate themselves and to see themselves as inferior to men.

Question 34

What is hooks’ main criticism of previous feminists?

Answer 34

That they focus too much on women, especially white, middle class women.

Question 35

According to hooks, what role should men play in feminism?

Answer 35

They can fight against inequality between all groups.

Question 36

Which historic events have reenergised intersectionality?

Answer 36

Black Lives Matter before and after George Floyd.