1) What century was Mary Wollstonecraft born in?
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
1) What century was Mary Wollstonecraft born in?
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
QUIZ FEMINIST THEORIES M2
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The nineteen sixties
This term is highly debatable, since women’s history reveals to us the
presence of many women’s movements. In general, however, it does refer
to the strong feminist movement that began in the sixties and took on even
more force in the seventies.
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Sexual Politics
Kate Millet published this book, a comment upon sexism in texts, in 1970.
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Sexual Difference
In the sixties the women of the Milan Women’s Bookstore and the philosophical
community Diotima of Verona began to work on this politics.
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This text is heralded as one of the major landmarks of women. It was published
in 1929.
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Yes!
The feminist party in Spain was created after the death of the dictator, General
Franco in 1975.
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It depends on your point of view (do this course to find out more!).
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Simone de Beauvoir
She published this dense and seminal work in 1953. It is considered one of
the predecessors of the second wave feminist movement.
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The eighteenth century
Mary Wollstonecraft was born in 1759, in England. She wrote, amongst other
texts, the important feminist work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,
1792.
2) What book is Kate Millet renowned for?
The Fear of Flying
Sexual Politics
Sexual/Textual Politics
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Eco-feminism
Vandana Shiva is an important thinker and worker on the ecological movement
from a feminist point of view.
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Luisa Muraro
Luisa Muraro published this text in 1991. It could be said to contain the
main core of her philosophical and political thought
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A Luce Irigaray
This statement has become famous because it contains the essence of what would
be developed into the thinking and practice of sexual difference. She put
into question the desirability of only seeking equality with men as the main
feminist goal.
3) What feminist politics are the women of the Milan Women’s Bookstore known for?
The politics of sexual difference
Radical feminism
Separatist politics
4) Who wrote A Room of One’s Own?
Emily Dickinson
Elaine Showalter
Virginia Woolf
5) Is there a feminist party in Spain?
Yes
No
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6) Are women’s studies the same as gender studies?
Yes they are.
No, absolutely not.
In some ways
7) Who wrote The Second Sex?
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Weil
Adrienne Rich
8) What decade did the so-called “second-wave” feminism begin in?
The twenties
The sixties
The seventies
9) What kind of feminism does Vandana Shiva work on?
Radical feminism
Ecological feminism
Postmodernist feminism
10) Who wrote Il ordine simbolico della madre?
Carla Lonzi
Teresa de Lauretis
Luisa Muraro
11) Who is famous for the phrase “Equal to who?” (in French)?
Luce Irigaray
Hélène Cixous
Simone de Beauvoir