3.3.2.2 Feminism Quiz: AQA Politics, Unit 3

The 20 questions

1. What is the core aim of feminism?

   • To restore traditional gender roles as the foundation of stable families and the social order
   • To achieve equal rights and opportunities for women and to challenge gender-based disadvantage
   • To establish women as the dominant group in the public life of every state across the world
   • To abolish every difference between men and women in every respect, including biology and roles

2. Which position do liberal feminists typically take?

   • The replacement of democracy by a feminist council with authority over every state institution
   • Separate spheres for men and women, based on what are seen as natural differences between them
   • Equal treatment of women and men under the law and in public life
   • The abolition of all legal rights for women, in order to protect the stability of their families

3. Which feature is central to radical feminism?

   • The view that women's oppression is caused solely by low wages in the labour market economy
   • The view that women should accept traditional roles as natural and good for themselves and society
   • The view that gender equality is achieved by equal voting rights alone, requiring no further change
   • The view that patriarchy is the root of women's oppression and requires fundamental social change

4. Which strand of feminism emphasises the value of distinctively female experiences?

   • Classical liberalism, which emphasises individual rights and limited government in every area
   • Difference feminism
   • Anarchist communism, which emphasises the abolition of the state and of all coercive hierarchies
   • Ecologism, which emphasises the intrinsic relationship between humankind and the natural world

5. What does post-feminism typically argue?

   • Feminism must be abolished, because men have already achieved all their goals in every area of society
   • Feminism should merge with conservatism to restore traditional gender roles across the whole of society
   • Feminist goals have largely been achieved, so women's choices are a matter of individual freedom
   • Women should return to domestic roles, since this restores balance and stability in family life

6. Which thinker argued for reform Darwinism and criticised an androcentric culture?

   • Simone de Beauvoir, who developed feminist existentialism and analysed patriarchal society in depth
   • Kate Millett, who developed a theory of sexual politics and of radical feminist critique in the 1970s
   • Sheila Rowbotham, who analysed the oppression of women and the working class in socialist terms
   • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

7. Which work by Simone de Beauvoir includes the claim that one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman?

   • The Second Sex (1949)
   • Sexual Politics (1970), which developed a theory of patriarchy and radical feminist critique
   • Women, Resistance and Revolution (1972), which analysed the oppression of women and the working class
   • The Feminine Mystique (1963), which analysed the discontent of American housewives in the post-war era

8. Which book by Kate Millett developed a theory of sexual politics?

   • Sexual Politics (1970)
   • The Second Sex (1949), which analysed the position of women in patriarchal society and culture
   • The Feminine Mystique (1963), which analysed the discontent of women confined to domestic life
   • A Room of One's Own (1929), which argued that women need money and space to write creatively

9. Which thinker is associated with socialist feminism and the oppression of women and the working class?

   • Kate Millett, who developed a theory of sexual politics centred on the power structures of patriarchy
   • bell hooks, who analysed the intersection of race, class and gender in feminist thought and practice
   • Sheila Rowbotham
   • Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who argued that social evolution and culture shaped women's roles in society

10. Which thinker is associated with intersectionality and with the education gap between those lower and higher on the economic scale?

    • Simone de Beauvoir, who argued that woman is defined as the Other in relation to man
    • Kate Millett, who argued that sexual politics is a form of power exercised through patriarchal institutions
    • Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who argued that an androcentric culture limits the development of women
    • bell hooks

11. What is affirmative action in feminist debate?

    • Positive measures, such as targets or preferences, to address past disadvantage and under-representation
    • Separate voting rights for women in elections to national parliaments, to ensure fair representation for women in every region
    • Legal bans on women working outside the home, introduced to protect the stability of their families
    • Equal salary policies that apply only to men in the public sector of the economy

12. Which tension is central to feminist debate?

    • Whether women should own property after marriage, which is a question for each family to decide
    • Whether women should be treated the same as men, or whether gender differences should be recognised and valued
    • Whether feminism should accept the authority of the monarch in matters of marriage and inheritance
    • Whether women should be allowed to vote in national elections at all, a question settled long ago

13. A company pays men and women identical wages for equal work. Which feminist principle does this reflect?

    • Radical separatism, which seeks to create communities that operate entirely apart from men
    • Recognition of difference through separate spheres, in which each gender performs distinct tasks
    • Equality of treatment
    • Patriarchal protectionism, which seeks to limit women's employment to protect them from harm

14. A feminist argues that women's experience of motherhood should shape public policy. Which strand does this reflect?

    • Classical liberalism, which argues that individual rights should be protected from state interference
    • Liberal feminism, which seeks identical treatment of women and men under the law in every case
    • Difference feminism
    • Post-feminism, which argues that feminist goals have largely been achieved in modern societies

15. A radical feminist argues that the family is a site of patriarchal power requiring change. Which strand is this?

    • Liberal feminism, which argues for reform within existing family and legal institutions
    • Radical feminism
    • Post-feminism, which argues that women are now free to choose their own family arrangements
    • Conservatism, which argues that the traditional family is the foundation of social order

16. Which criticism do critics make of post-feminism?

    • It has no interest in individual choice or personal freedom in any aspect of women's lives
    • It opposes all forms of equal treatment by law in every area of public and private life
    • It demands the immediate abolition of all women's rights in the workplace and the home
    • It underestimates persistent structural inequalities, such as the gender pay gap and barriers in the workplace

17. Which best evaluates whether feminism has achieved its aims?

    • Feminism has achieved nothing, because legal rights for women have not changed in any meaningful way since the nineteenth century
    • Feminism has achieved all its aims, because women now hold a majority of seats in every legislature
    • Substantial legal and social progress has occurred, but debates continue about persistent inequalities in pay, power and representation
    • Feminism's aims are irrelevant, because gender is not a political category in any society in the world

18. What is the main difference between liberal and radical feminism?

    • Liberal feminism is a religious movement organised through churches, while radical feminism is a secular movement with no political aims
    • Liberal feminism wants women to leave the workforce, while radical feminism wants them to return
    • Liberal feminism rejects all legal equality, while radical feminism accepts it fully in every area
    • Liberal feminism seeks reform within existing institutions, while radical feminism seeks deeper transformation of patriarchal structures

19. Which recent development in feminist thought emphasises how multiple identities interact?

    • Ecofeminism, which focuses only on the protection of wild animals and their natural habitats in general
    • Classical liberal feminism, which ignores all identities other than the individual's rights and choices
    • Intersectionality, which analyses how gender interacts with race, class and other identities
    • Anarchist feminism, which rejects all forms of organisation, including law and collective decision making

20. What is meant by Simone de Beauvoir's concept of woman as 'the Other'?

    • Woman is the natural guardian of the moral order, whose role is to uphold the values of the family
    • Woman is the owner of property within the household alone, with rights over the family's wealth
    • Woman is the head of the state's economic plan, responsible for allocating resources across the nation and its regions in full
    • Woman is defined in relation to man, positioned as the secondary or different category in patriarchal society

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