WGS 1000 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
The form of feminism bell hooks identifies in which women work within the existing
power structures to maximize their freedom is called: - Answers :Reformist feminism
In what previous publication written about in "Feminist Politics" does bell hooks define
feminism? - Answers :Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Where does bell hooks claim that radical feminism has been most accepted? - Answers
:Academia
Allen Johnson claims that patriarchy is: - Answers :A system
Some critics objected to Johnson's statement that the participants in the patriarchy
include: - Answers :Women
According to Allen Johnson patriarchy privileges are: - Answers :Dominance/Control
and Masculinity
Anne Fausto-Sterling estimates that for every 1,000 children born, roughly ___ are
intersex. - Answers :17
Which of these are sexes named in Anne Fausto-Sterling's "The Five Sexes?" -
Answers :Herms, Merms, and Ferms
What was the name of the woman who spoke at the May 2000 meeting of the Lawson
Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society (LWPES) as told by Anne Fausto-Sterling in "The
Five Sexes Revisited?" - Answers :Cheryl Chase
According to the customs followed by Ijeoma A.'s family, what part of a chicken could
only be eaten by the oldest man at the table? - Answers :Heart
In what country was Ijeoma A. raised? - Answers :Nigeria
In what ways do the boys at River High School constitute masculinity, according to C.J.
Pascoe? - Answers :By demonstrating sexual mastery and denying girls' subjectivity
C.J. Pascoe writes that which queer theorist challenges that gender is natural by
claiming that gender is performed through "a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid
regulatory frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance, of a
natural sort of being?" - Answers :Judith Baker
C.J. Pascoe advocated uncoupling the study of masculinity from what? - Answers :The
male body
,According to Paisley Currah, "Stepping Back, Looking Onward: Situating Transgender
Activism and Transgender Studies," which respondent was particularly interested in the
racial context of the transgender rights movement? - Answers :Matt Richardson
In her essay "Oppression," Marilyn Frye argues that men can be oppressed as: -
Answers :Members of a certain race and class
How does Peggy McIntosh "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," in her
essay, describe "the feeling that one belongs within the human circle"? - Answers :As
an unearned advantage
Which system of oppression does Audre Lorde in her essay, "There Is No Hierarchy of
Oppressions" claim is the most oppressive? - Answers :All systems of oppression are
equally oppressive
What identity is not accepted within queer African communities according to Ashley
Currier and Thérèse Migraine-George in the essay "Queer/African Identities: Questions,
Limits, Challenges"? - Answers :Bisexual
What is the fundamental claim of feminism that Marilyn Frye identifies in here essay
"Oppression"? - Answers :That women are oppressed
Why does Audre Lorde, in her essay, "There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions" claim that
"Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and gay issue?" - Answers :Because
identities intersect, and many Black people are part of the gay and lesbian community
What acronym does Kris Hayashi use to describe the trans community in Paisley
Currah's essay, "Stepping Back, Looking Onward: Situating Transgender Activism and
Transgender Studies"? - Answers :TGNC
In her essay "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," Peggy McIntosh
argues that systematic change: - Answers :Takes many decades
What state does M. Soledad Caballero mention in the poem, "Before Intersectionality? -
Answers :South Carolina
According to the essay "Queer/African Identities: Questions, Limits, Challenges," in
what three countries did Ashley Currier and Thérèse Migraine-George complete
fieldwork? - Answers :Liberia, Malawi, South Africa
In "Queer/African Identities: Questions, Limits, Challenges" what legacies do queer
African communities respond to according to Ashley Currier and Thérèse Migraine-
George? - Answers :Scientific racism
Homophbia
Sexism
, In "Before Intersectionality," M. Soledad Caballero says of her experiences as an
immigrant: - Answers :"We straddled emptiness. Spanish in whispers, our parents'
accents, their immigrant fears."
"There were only two colors, only two histories. We were neither."
"We lived our sadness through each other. We lived our silence too."
Marilyn Frye contends in here essay "Oppression" that oppression needs to be
analyzed at the: - Answers :Macroscopic level
What is the reason that most white people do not recognize white privilege according to
Peggy McIntosh in her essay "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" ? -
Answers :Because privilege is purposefully structured to be invisible
Because of the way whites are taught to recognize racism
Because white people do not see white as a racial category
According to Paisley Currah, "Stepping Back, Looking Onward: Situating Transgender
Activism and Transgender Studies," what is Susan Stryker's academic field? - Answers
:History
Judith Kegan Gardiner in the essay "Friendships, Gender Theories, and Social
Change", argues twentieth-century cultural feminist theorists described women's
psychologies as: - Answers :Independent and empathic
Judith Kegan Gardiner in the essay "Friendships, Gender Theories, and Social
Change", argues twentieth-century cultural feminist theorists described men's
psychologies as: - Answers :Competitive
Autonomous
Defensive
Judith Kegan Gardiner in the essay "Friendships, Gender Theories, and Social Change"
claims that men's and women's friendship have been portrayed as: - Answers :Opposite
In the essay "An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" what were the four things
that Angelina Emily Grimké suggested women could do to end slavery and in what
order? - Answers :Read, pray, speak, and act
In the essay "An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" Grimké viewed slavery
as: - Answers :a sin
In the essay "An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" why did Grimké appeal to
women to end slavery? - Answers :Their Christianity
Their role as wives
Their role as mothers
Which of these were listed as injustices directed towards women in "The Declaration of
Sentiments?" - Answers :Women's inability to seek a divorce
The form of feminism bell hooks identifies in which women work within the existing
power structures to maximize their freedom is called: - Answers :Reformist feminism
In what previous publication written about in "Feminist Politics" does bell hooks define
feminism? - Answers :Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Where does bell hooks claim that radical feminism has been most accepted? - Answers
:Academia
Allen Johnson claims that patriarchy is: - Answers :A system
Some critics objected to Johnson's statement that the participants in the patriarchy
include: - Answers :Women
According to Allen Johnson patriarchy privileges are: - Answers :Dominance/Control
and Masculinity
Anne Fausto-Sterling estimates that for every 1,000 children born, roughly ___ are
intersex. - Answers :17
Which of these are sexes named in Anne Fausto-Sterling's "The Five Sexes?" -
Answers :Herms, Merms, and Ferms
What was the name of the woman who spoke at the May 2000 meeting of the Lawson
Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society (LWPES) as told by Anne Fausto-Sterling in "The
Five Sexes Revisited?" - Answers :Cheryl Chase
According to the customs followed by Ijeoma A.'s family, what part of a chicken could
only be eaten by the oldest man at the table? - Answers :Heart
In what country was Ijeoma A. raised? - Answers :Nigeria
In what ways do the boys at River High School constitute masculinity, according to C.J.
Pascoe? - Answers :By demonstrating sexual mastery and denying girls' subjectivity
C.J. Pascoe writes that which queer theorist challenges that gender is natural by
claiming that gender is performed through "a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid
regulatory frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance, of a
natural sort of being?" - Answers :Judith Baker
C.J. Pascoe advocated uncoupling the study of masculinity from what? - Answers :The
male body
,According to Paisley Currah, "Stepping Back, Looking Onward: Situating Transgender
Activism and Transgender Studies," which respondent was particularly interested in the
racial context of the transgender rights movement? - Answers :Matt Richardson
In her essay "Oppression," Marilyn Frye argues that men can be oppressed as: -
Answers :Members of a certain race and class
How does Peggy McIntosh "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," in her
essay, describe "the feeling that one belongs within the human circle"? - Answers :As
an unearned advantage
Which system of oppression does Audre Lorde in her essay, "There Is No Hierarchy of
Oppressions" claim is the most oppressive? - Answers :All systems of oppression are
equally oppressive
What identity is not accepted within queer African communities according to Ashley
Currier and Thérèse Migraine-George in the essay "Queer/African Identities: Questions,
Limits, Challenges"? - Answers :Bisexual
What is the fundamental claim of feminism that Marilyn Frye identifies in here essay
"Oppression"? - Answers :That women are oppressed
Why does Audre Lorde, in her essay, "There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions" claim that
"Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and gay issue?" - Answers :Because
identities intersect, and many Black people are part of the gay and lesbian community
What acronym does Kris Hayashi use to describe the trans community in Paisley
Currah's essay, "Stepping Back, Looking Onward: Situating Transgender Activism and
Transgender Studies"? - Answers :TGNC
In her essay "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," Peggy McIntosh
argues that systematic change: - Answers :Takes many decades
What state does M. Soledad Caballero mention in the poem, "Before Intersectionality? -
Answers :South Carolina
According to the essay "Queer/African Identities: Questions, Limits, Challenges," in
what three countries did Ashley Currier and Thérèse Migraine-George complete
fieldwork? - Answers :Liberia, Malawi, South Africa
In "Queer/African Identities: Questions, Limits, Challenges" what legacies do queer
African communities respond to according to Ashley Currier and Thérèse Migraine-
George? - Answers :Scientific racism
Homophbia
Sexism
, In "Before Intersectionality," M. Soledad Caballero says of her experiences as an
immigrant: - Answers :"We straddled emptiness. Spanish in whispers, our parents'
accents, their immigrant fears."
"There were only two colors, only two histories. We were neither."
"We lived our sadness through each other. We lived our silence too."
Marilyn Frye contends in here essay "Oppression" that oppression needs to be
analyzed at the: - Answers :Macroscopic level
What is the reason that most white people do not recognize white privilege according to
Peggy McIntosh in her essay "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" ? -
Answers :Because privilege is purposefully structured to be invisible
Because of the way whites are taught to recognize racism
Because white people do not see white as a racial category
According to Paisley Currah, "Stepping Back, Looking Onward: Situating Transgender
Activism and Transgender Studies," what is Susan Stryker's academic field? - Answers
:History
Judith Kegan Gardiner in the essay "Friendships, Gender Theories, and Social
Change", argues twentieth-century cultural feminist theorists described women's
psychologies as: - Answers :Independent and empathic
Judith Kegan Gardiner in the essay "Friendships, Gender Theories, and Social
Change", argues twentieth-century cultural feminist theorists described men's
psychologies as: - Answers :Competitive
Autonomous
Defensive
Judith Kegan Gardiner in the essay "Friendships, Gender Theories, and Social Change"
claims that men's and women's friendship have been portrayed as: - Answers :Opposite
In the essay "An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" what were the four things
that Angelina Emily Grimké suggested women could do to end slavery and in what
order? - Answers :Read, pray, speak, and act
In the essay "An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" Grimké viewed slavery
as: - Answers :a sin
In the essay "An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" why did Grimké appeal to
women to end slavery? - Answers :Their Christianity
Their role as wives
Their role as mothers
Which of these were listed as injustices directed towards women in "The Declaration of
Sentiments?" - Answers :Women's inability to seek a divorce
