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Which of the following is representative of the "First Wave" of feminist philosophy? |
| | A) | Simone de Beauvoir |
| | B) | Julis Kristeva |
| | C) | Harriet Taylor |
| | D) | Nel Noddings |
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What is one reason feminist epistemologists are suspicious of the concept of the ideal knower as dispassionate, objective, and purely rational? |
| | A) | These qualities are of no value in the pursuit of knowledge and truth. |
| | B) | Too many real people are like that, and they don't know much. |
| | C) | Even supposedly objective scientists are influenced by their own prejudices and biases. |
| | D) | They aren't suspicious of this concept at all. |
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Who wrote: "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman"? |
| | A) | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| | B) | Simone de Beauvoir |
| | C) | Jacques Lacan |
| | D) | Luce Irigaray |
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According to Mary Wollstonecraft, which of the following virtues should be cultivated in women as well as men? |
| | A) | docility |
| | B) | dependence |
| | C) | wisdom |
| | D) | sensitivity |
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of the "Third Wave" of feminism? |
| | A) | Rejects binary distinctions between men and women |
| | B) | Rejects "sex positive" philosophies |
| | C) | Supports transsexuals |
| | D) | Includes conflicting strands of theory |
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What tends to be true of words associated with women, their occupations, and their bodies in a male-dominated society? |
| | A) | They get devalued and take on demeaning, derogatory, and insulting senses. |
| | B) | They get reified into objects beyond the human realm. |
| | C) | They vanish from the conversational landscape. |
| | D) | They get transformed into male virtues. |
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According to Julia Kristeva |
| | A) | The female semiotic has been devalued. |
| | B) | Feminine signification has been marginalized because it threatens the traditionally masculinist symbolic discourse. |
| | C) | Religious discourse can create a healing space between symbolic and semiotic. |
| | D) | All of the above. |
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Which of the following developed what she called "maternal thinking"? |
| | A) | Nel Noddings |
| | B) | Carol Gilligan |
| | C) | Nancy Chodorow |
| | D) | Sara Ruddick |
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According to Nancy Chodorow, why do boys often become isolated, separate, and misogynist? |
| | A) | Boys are naturally this way due to the presence of greater amounts of testosterone. |
| | B) | They are often teased and rejected by girls at a young age. |
| | C) | Society requires that boys break personal identification with the mother in order to positionally identify with male gender roles imposed by society. |
| | D) | Mass media, advertising, and entertainment combine to produce this result. |
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Her focus is to demonstrate that language doesn't exist outside the body. |
| | A) | Sara Ruddick |
| | B) | Hélène Cixous |
| | C) | Nancy Chodorow |
| | D) | Carol Gilligan |
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