Feminist studies final exam 2023 practice questions and
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Thinking about Shakespeare's Sister: Virginia Woolf
Asks and explores the basic question of "why no woman wrote a word of that
extraordinary literature when every other man, it seemed, was capable of song or
sonnet
The Wife Emily Dickinson
-The image of how women do everything for men
A woman must fulfill her husband's and her society's expectations of how to behave,
sacrificing opportunities and her own voice
-By linking the subject's brilliance to the images of pearls and weeds, Dickinson
illustrates the deep suppression of wives' aptitudes, forever unidentified by the husband
Rush Limbaugh and the New Networked Feminism: Tom Watson
-Limbaugh called Georgetown student Sandra Fluke a slut and prostitute after she
contested contraception costs
-Twitter and Facebook-savvy women dealt -Limbaugh the worst humiliation
-This led to many sponsors and radio stations dropping Limbaugh.
-#Mooreandme tag on twitter
-Social media has provided an outlet for women to voice their opinions against what
they see as unjust (Rush Limbaugh, Susan G. Komen cutting funding for planned
parenthood, Michael Moore bailing out Julian Assange after rape accusations).
-With social media, feminists can bring change in ways they couldn't before. It allows
them to fight against the rape culture that almost forgives "violence and sexual assault
against women" and claims that women provoke and ask for rape.
Poetry is not a Luxury: Audre Lorde
-It is through poetry that we give name to the ideas which are nameless and formless
-For women, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence
-Forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hope and dreams toward
survival and change
-Poetry is not only dream and vision, it is the skeleton architecture of our lives
Enlightened Sexism: Susan Douglas
-Douglas' article points out differences between media representations and social
actualities of gender and economic or political power
-These media representations are also, insidiously, "the response... to the perceived
threat of a new gender regime" (285)
-Enlightened Sexism defined as: equality achieved amusing to resurrect sexist
stereotypes
If Women Ran Hip Hop: Aya de Leon
-We would have nothing to be ashamed of
-Same gender loving and transgender emcees would be proportionally represented
-Intersectional analysis through speculative method
Vampires and Vixens:Alison Happel
Happel discusses popular culture's effects on impressionable adolescents, specifically
how Twilight was successfully marketed to teens and young adults, but ultimately bears
, social and material consequences
Texts in popular culture do not strictly reflect understandings of the worldàthey create
the world.
They are sites of education, critical sources of information, so it's necessary to critique
what has a massive appeal to youth
Twilight promotes the notion of post-feminism as well as the romanticized idea that
helpless women should tame naturally aggressive men.
Violent scenes are eroticized, disregarding history of violence against women.
This upholds patriarchal views of "love, sexuality, and gender roles".
Don't Act Crazy, Mindy: Heather Havrilesky
-Bothered by: The more astute and capable many of these women are, the more likely it
is that they are also completely nuts
-Heather: I don't mean complicated, difficult, thorny, or complex. I mean that these
women are portrayed as volcanoes that could blow at any minute. Worse, the very
abilities and skills that make them singular and interesting come coupled with some
serious psychic deficiency."
-Havrilesky uses "Special Pleading", a logical fallacy that makes exceptions for
examples that act contrary to their opinion, to dismiss fatal flaws in male characters like
Don Draper.
-Don Draper: manipulative and unfaithful for the success of his company
-Havrilesky Compares how men are portrayed as heroic or lovable in television because
of their shortcomings and that women are demonised for them.
Beyonce: Feminist Icon?
-Beyonce claims that she is a feminist and has made many songs empowering young
women.
-She has spoken out against issues such as the economic equality that many women
face, and through her music, has become a role model for women of all ages to look up
to.
-Some examples of songs that are empowering are telephone, independent woman part
1, survivor, etc.
Cyberactivism and the Role of Women in Arab Uprisings:
Asmaa Mahfouzàphone call wanted to protest, beginning of the Egyptian revolution
Explores how young women used social media and cyberactivism to help shape the
"Arab Spring" and its aftermath
Bad Girl, Good Girl: Zines doing Feminism
The article seeks to analyze what place zines have in feminism and what they do for the
movement by examining the largely successful Busmagazine.
At the same time, Piepmeier provides some criticism regarding third wave feminism
Piepmeier's Argument: "These zines are playing in the spaces between resistance and
complicity and as such are creating third wave tactics"
"Zines that reclaim femininity are sometimes identified as enacting a version of cultural
feminism, but I don't think it's useful to frame them in these terms.
Cultural feminism, usually defined as a feminism that celebrates women's unique
perspective, is a somewhat outmoded category that doesn't capture the complexity of
these zines' gender interventions.
What the zines are doing is offering a contradictory stance: yes, girlhood and
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Thinking about Shakespeare's Sister: Virginia Woolf
Asks and explores the basic question of "why no woman wrote a word of that
extraordinary literature when every other man, it seemed, was capable of song or
sonnet
The Wife Emily Dickinson
-The image of how women do everything for men
A woman must fulfill her husband's and her society's expectations of how to behave,
sacrificing opportunities and her own voice
-By linking the subject's brilliance to the images of pearls and weeds, Dickinson
illustrates the deep suppression of wives' aptitudes, forever unidentified by the husband
Rush Limbaugh and the New Networked Feminism: Tom Watson
-Limbaugh called Georgetown student Sandra Fluke a slut and prostitute after she
contested contraception costs
-Twitter and Facebook-savvy women dealt -Limbaugh the worst humiliation
-This led to many sponsors and radio stations dropping Limbaugh.
-#Mooreandme tag on twitter
-Social media has provided an outlet for women to voice their opinions against what
they see as unjust (Rush Limbaugh, Susan G. Komen cutting funding for planned
parenthood, Michael Moore bailing out Julian Assange after rape accusations).
-With social media, feminists can bring change in ways they couldn't before. It allows
them to fight against the rape culture that almost forgives "violence and sexual assault
against women" and claims that women provoke and ask for rape.
Poetry is not a Luxury: Audre Lorde
-It is through poetry that we give name to the ideas which are nameless and formless
-For women, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence
-Forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hope and dreams toward
survival and change
-Poetry is not only dream and vision, it is the skeleton architecture of our lives
Enlightened Sexism: Susan Douglas
-Douglas' article points out differences between media representations and social
actualities of gender and economic or political power
-These media representations are also, insidiously, "the response... to the perceived
threat of a new gender regime" (285)
-Enlightened Sexism defined as: equality achieved amusing to resurrect sexist
stereotypes
If Women Ran Hip Hop: Aya de Leon
-We would have nothing to be ashamed of
-Same gender loving and transgender emcees would be proportionally represented
-Intersectional analysis through speculative method
Vampires and Vixens:Alison Happel
Happel discusses popular culture's effects on impressionable adolescents, specifically
how Twilight was successfully marketed to teens and young adults, but ultimately bears
, social and material consequences
Texts in popular culture do not strictly reflect understandings of the worldàthey create
the world.
They are sites of education, critical sources of information, so it's necessary to critique
what has a massive appeal to youth
Twilight promotes the notion of post-feminism as well as the romanticized idea that
helpless women should tame naturally aggressive men.
Violent scenes are eroticized, disregarding history of violence against women.
This upholds patriarchal views of "love, sexuality, and gender roles".
Don't Act Crazy, Mindy: Heather Havrilesky
-Bothered by: The more astute and capable many of these women are, the more likely it
is that they are also completely nuts
-Heather: I don't mean complicated, difficult, thorny, or complex. I mean that these
women are portrayed as volcanoes that could blow at any minute. Worse, the very
abilities and skills that make them singular and interesting come coupled with some
serious psychic deficiency."
-Havrilesky uses "Special Pleading", a logical fallacy that makes exceptions for
examples that act contrary to their opinion, to dismiss fatal flaws in male characters like
Don Draper.
-Don Draper: manipulative and unfaithful for the success of his company
-Havrilesky Compares how men are portrayed as heroic or lovable in television because
of their shortcomings and that women are demonised for them.
Beyonce: Feminist Icon?
-Beyonce claims that she is a feminist and has made many songs empowering young
women.
-She has spoken out against issues such as the economic equality that many women
face, and through her music, has become a role model for women of all ages to look up
to.
-Some examples of songs that are empowering are telephone, independent woman part
1, survivor, etc.
Cyberactivism and the Role of Women in Arab Uprisings:
Asmaa Mahfouzàphone call wanted to protest, beginning of the Egyptian revolution
Explores how young women used social media and cyberactivism to help shape the
"Arab Spring" and its aftermath
Bad Girl, Good Girl: Zines doing Feminism
The article seeks to analyze what place zines have in feminism and what they do for the
movement by examining the largely successful Busmagazine.
At the same time, Piepmeier provides some criticism regarding third wave feminism
Piepmeier's Argument: "These zines are playing in the spaces between resistance and
complicity and as such are creating third wave tactics"
"Zines that reclaim femininity are sometimes identified as enacting a version of cultural
feminism, but I don't think it's useful to frame them in these terms.
Cultural feminism, usually defined as a feminism that celebrates women's unique
perspective, is a somewhat outmoded category that doesn't capture the complexity of
these zines' gender interventions.
What the zines are doing is offering a contradictory stance: yes, girlhood and
