1. The feminist movement produced feminist fiction, feminist non-fiction, and feminist poetry, which created new interest in women's writing. It also prompted a general reevaluation of women's historical and academic contributions in response to the belief that women's lives . There has also been a close link between feminist literature and ______ ?
A:) criticism
B:) Socialism
C:) activism
D:) political movement
springline- Correct option: C:) activism
2. Much of the early period of feminist literary scholarship was given over to the rediscovery and reclamation of texts written by women. In Western feminist literary scholarship, Studies like Dale Spender's Mothers of the Novel (1986) and The Rise of the Woman Novelist 1986, by_____?
A:) Jane Spencer
B:) Susan Haack
C:) Meera Nanda
D:) Peggy Phelan
springline- Correct option: A:) Jane Spencer
3. Particular works of literature have come to be known as key feminist texts. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. A Room of One's Own (1929) by Virginia Woolf, is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by _______?
A:) Post colonist
B:) Colonist
C:) activism
D:) patriarchy
springline- Correct option: D:) patriarchy
4. Feminist science fiction is sometimes taught at the university level to explore the role of social constructs in understanding gender. Notable texts of this kind are Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Joanna Russ' The Female Man (1970), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979) and Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale in ______?
A:) 1985
B:) 1986
C:) 1987
D:) 1988
springline- Correct option: A:) 1985
5. Most genres and subgenres have undergone a similar analysis, so literary studies have entered new territories such as the ‘female gothic‘ or women's science fiction. According to Whom, ‘Science fiction and fantasy serve as important vehicles for feminist thought, particularly as bridges between theory and practice?
A:) Susan McClary
B:) Joanna Russ
C:) Dale Spender
D:) Elyce Rae Helford
springline- Correct option: D:) Elyce Rae Helford
6. Moreover, historical pieces of writing by women have been used by feminists to speak about what women's lives would have been like in the past, while demonstrating the power that they held and the impact they had in their communities even centuries ago. An important figure in the history of women in relation to literature is_______?
A:) Hrotsvitha
B:) Literary Canon
C:) Cyberfeminism
D:) Women Studies
springline- Correct option: A:) Hrotsvitha
7. Who makes a distinction between modern feminism and its antecedents, particularly the struggle for suffrage and In the United States she places the turning point in the decades before and after women obtained the vote in 1920 (1910–1930)?
A:) Audre Lorde
B:) Nancy Cott
C:) Rupi Kaur
D:) Alice Walker
springline- Correct option: B:) Nancy Cott
8. Marxist feminist authors in the 1970s, such as Margaret Benston and Who relied heavily on analysis of productive and unproductive labor in an attempt to shift the perception of the time that consumption was the purpose of a family, presenting arguments for a state-paid wage to homemakers, and a cultural perception of the family as a productive entity?
A:) Peggy Morton
B:) Anne Sexton
C:) Marge Piercy
D:) Gertrude Stein
springline- Correct option: A:) Peggy Morton
9. Hrotsvitha was a canoness from 935 - 973, as the first female poetess in the German lands, and first female historian Hrotsvitha is one of the few people to speak about women's lives from a woman's perspective during _______?
A:) Romantic Period
B:) Neoclassical Period
C:) Modern Ages
D:) Middle Ages
springline- Correct option: D:) Middle Ages
10. Georges Duby et al. write that in practice fascist society was hierarchical and emphasized male virility, with women maintaining a largely subordinate position. Who writes that Neofascism has since the 1960s been hostile towards feminism and advocates that women accept ‘their traditional roles?
A:) Muzi Epifani
B:) Blamires
C:) Rachel Blau Duplessis
D:) Mary Collier
springline- Correct option: B:) Blamires
11. Jaggar and Rothenberg point to significant differences between socialist feminism and Marxism, but for our purposes I'll present the two together. Echols offers a description of socialist feminism as a marriage between Marxism and radical feminism, with Marxism the dominant partner. Marxists and socialists often call themselves _______?
A:) Radical
B:) Activist
C:) Logican
D:) Anti-Feminist
springline- Correct option: A:) Radical
12. Buddhist feminism is a movement that seeks to improve the religious, legal, and social status of women within Buddhism. It is an aspect of feminist theology which seeks to advance and understand the equality of men and women morally, socially, spiritually, and in leadership from a Buddhist perspective. Who describes Buddhist feminism as ‘the radical practice of the co-humanity of women and men ?
A:) Rita Gross
B:) Susan Howe
C:) Lyn Hejinian
D:) Terri L. Jewell
springline- Correct option: A:) Rita Gross
13. Which has been criticized by feminist theory for having a negative effect on the female workforce population across the globe, especially in the global south and Masculinist assumptions and objectives continue to dominate economic and geopolitical thinking ?
A:) Cultural Feminism
B:) Eco Feminism
C:) liberalism
D:) Neoliberalism
springline- Correct option: D:) Neoliberalism
14. Who writes, ‘Women are most likely to make a substantial contribution when subsistence activities have the following characteristics: the participant is not obliged to be far from home; the tasks are relatively monotonous and do not require rapt concentration and the work is not dangerous, can be performed in spite of interruptions, and is easily resumed once interrupted?
A:) Judith K. Brown
B:) Sue Lenier
C:) Mina Loy
D:) Audre Lorde
springline- Correct option: A:) Judith K. Brown
15. According to The Handbook of English Linguistics, generic masculine pronouns and gender-specific job titles are instances ‘where English linguistic convention has historically treated men as prototypical of the human species. Who chose ‘feminism’ as its 2017 Word of the Year, noting that ‘Word of the Year is a quantitative measure of interest in a particular word?
A:) Eavan Boland
B:) Olga Broumas
C:) Merriam-Webster
D:) Mary Collier
springline- Correct option: C:) Merriam-Webster
16. Male participation in feminism is generally encouraged by feminists and is seen as an important strategy for achieving full societal commitment to gender equality. Many male feminists and pro-feminists are active in both women's rights activism, feminist theory, and ______?
A:) masculinity studies
B:) Gender Studies
C:) Patriarchy
D:) Eco Feminism
springline- Correct option: A:) masculinity studies
17. Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical or philosophical fields. It encompasses work in a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, economics, women's studies, literary criticism, art history, psychoanalysis, and _____?
A:) Political activism
B:) philosophy
C:) Patriarchy
D:) cultural
springline- Correct option: B:) philosophy
18. In the field of literary criticism, Elaine Showalter describes the development of feminist theory as having three phases. The first she calls ‘feminist critique’, in which the feminist reader examines the ideologies behind literary phenomena. The second Showalter calls ____?
A:) gynocriticism
B:) Intersectionality
C:) Misogyny
D:) Misandry
springline- Correct option: A:) gynocriticism
19. Liberal feminism is a very broad term that encompasses many, often diverging modern branches and a variety of feminist and general political perspectives; some historically liberal branches are equality feminism, social feminism, equity feminism, difference feminism, individualist/libertarian feminism and some forms of state feminism, particularly the state feminism of the _______?
A:) European countries
B:) Nordic countries
C:) Arabian Countries
D:) Africa
springline- Correct option: B:) Nordic countries
20. Who has criticized what she described as neoliberal feminism, saying it is individualized rather than collectivized, and becoming detached from social inequality and due to this she argues that Liberal Feminism cannot offer any sustained analysis of the structures of male dominance, power, or privilege?
A:) Lucille Clifton
B:) Margaret Atwood
C:) Catherine Rottenberg
D:) Elizabeth Bishop
springline- Correct option: C:) Catherine Rottenberg
21. Dorothy Chunn describes a ‘blaming narrative’ under the postfeminist moniker, where feminists are undermined for continuing to make demands for gender equality in a ‘post-feminist’ society, where ‘gender equality has (already) been achieved. Who has written that the post feminist texts which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s portrayed second-wave feminism as a monolithic entity?
A:) Amelia Jones
B:) Judy Grahn
C:) Dorothy Hewett
D:) Audre Lorde
springline- Correct option: A:) Amelia Jones
22. Who is a modern feminist philosopher, in her writings elaborates the dualistic nature of the mind/body connection by examining the early philosophies of Aristotle, Hegel, and Descartes, revealing how such distinguishing binaries such as spirit/matter and male activity/female passivity have worked to solidify gender characteristics and categorization?
A:) Robin Mogan
B:) Susan Bordo
C:) Grace Paley
D:) Katha Pollitt
springline- Correct option: B:) Susan Bordo
23. Who argues that black women in particular, have a unique perspective on the oppression of the world as unlike white women, they face both racial and gender oppression simultaneously, among other factors?
A:) Patricia Hill Collins
B:) Hedwig Gorski
C:) Elvia Ardalani
D:) Grace Paley
springline- Correct option: A:) Patricia Hill Collins
24. Feminist psychology is a form of psychology centered on societal structures and gender. Feminist psychology critiques the fact that historically psychological research has been done from a male perspective with the view that males are the norm. Who was one of the first women to enter the field of psychology?
A:) Allson Hedge Coke
B:) Ethel Dench Puffer Howes
C:) Jane Eaton Hamilton
D:) Fehmida Riaz
springline- Correct option: B:) Ethel Dench Puffer Howes
25. One major psychological theory, relational-cultural theory, is based on the work of Jean Baker Miller, whose book Toward a New Psychology of Women proposes that ‘growth-fostering relationships are a central human necessity and that disconnections are the source of psychological problems’. Inspired by Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique, and other feminist classics from the____?
A:) 1950s
B:) 1960s
C:) 1970s
D:) 1980s
springline- Correct option: C:) 1970s
26. Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theories or politics. Its history has been varied, from classic works of female authors such as George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Margaret Fuller to recent theoretical work in women's studies and gender studies by ‘______?
A:) political activist
B:) first wave authors
C:) second wave authors
D:) third-wave authors
springline- Correct option: D:) third-wave authors
27. Feminist legal theory is based on the feminist view that law's treatment of women in relation to men has not been equal or fair. The goals of feminist legal theory, as defined by leading theorist ______?
A:) Allan Tade
B:) Mary Collier
C:) Claire Dalton
D:) Carol Ann Duff
springline- Correct option: C:) Claire Dalton
28. Chandra Talpade Mohanty's essay ‘Under Western Eyes’ also came out in 1984, analyzing the homogenizing western feminist depiction of the ‘third world woman.’ Who contributed to the creation of Postcolonial Feminism with her 1984 essay ‘The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House?
A:) Susan Howe
B:) Audre Lorde
C:) Gwen Harwood
D:) Alice Notley
springline- Correct option: B:) Audre Lorde
29. Who coined the term ‘gender performativity‘ further suggests that, ‘theories of communication must explain the ways individuals negotiate, resist, and transcend their identities in a highly gendered society?
A:) Judith Butler
B:) Dorothy Richardson
C:) Lola Ridge
D:) Qiu Jin
springline- Correct option: A:) Judith Butler
30. Popular concepts that are related to the field of women's studies include feminist theory, etc. Research practices and methodologies associated with women's studies. The first scholarly journal in interdisciplinary women's studies, Feminist Studies, began publishing in 1972. The National Women's Studies Association (of the United States) was established in _______?
A:) 1976
B:) 1977
C:) 1978
D:) 1979
springline- Correct option: B:) 1977