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WMNST 106: Exam 1 Study Guide
According to the Shaw and Lee reading, a primary focus of a "third wave" feminist
agenda is on... - ANS-sexuality and identity

According to the Shaw and Lee reading, the term "gender studies" reflects a movement
away from a fixed idea of "woman." - ANS-true

According to the Shaw and Lee reading, androcentrism implies putting men at the
center of history, culture, and power, and thus confuses "maleness" with humanity in
general. - ANS-true

According to the Shaw and Lee reading, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was
written by... - ANS-Mary Wollstonecraft

According to the Shaw and Lee reading, one of two central components of feminism is
reallocation of power to women over men. - ANS-false

What actress introduces Joss Whedon at the beginning of the video "On the Road to
Equality Honoring Men on The Front Lines"? - ANS-Meryl Streep

What is Riley so riled up about? Choose all that apply. - ANS-all the pink stuff
all the blue stuff
what boys want
what girls want

According to the Shaw and Lee reading, a strategy of liberal feminism is working within
the system for change. - ANS-true

According to the Shaw and Lee reading, third wave feminism has its origins in the lives
of the baby boomer generation of the 1950s and 1960s. - ANS-false

According to the lecture content, objectification means seeing the body as a site of
identity and self-expression. - ANS-false

According to Naomi Wolf, the double standard of beauty means that the bodies of white
women are valued twice as much as women of color. - ANS-false

, According to Wolf and Kilbourne, the obsession with thinness, the tyranny of the image
of ideal beauty, and violence against women are all public health issues affecting all of
us. - ANS-true

An "ideal body" is also likely to be a "normative body." - ANS-true

According to the lecture content, gender can be defined as the biological organizations
of sexual differences. - ANS-false

"Tough Guise" is to the study of masculinity as "Killing Us Softly" is to the study of
femininity. - ANS-true

Sex assignment refers to the practice of segregating boys from girls in groups. -
ANS-false

Jean Kilbourne's studies focus on the role of media in creating beauty standards. -
ANS-true

According to the lecture content, medical practitioners tend to try and "fix" intersex
children into binary categories. - ANS-true

According to the lecture content, transgendered people are individuals who identify as
gay or lesbian. - ANS-false

Penelope is the first name of... - ANS-the narrator

In "Engendering Language, Silence and Voice" for what reasons, according to the
author, do women struggle to find a voice in writing? - ANS-Women have been written
about by men for so long, writing as a "woman writer" about other women is still quite
new.

What appears across the screen in the opening of The Theatre production of The
Penelopiad video? - ANS-nooses

In the video "Theatre Production of 'The Penelopiad'" Odysseus is played by a man. -
ANS-false

The book title, The Penelopiad, refers to an actual literary epic written during the time of
the ancient Greeks. - ANS-false

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