Critical Theory - Feminist Criticism

5 Written Questions

1. posits essential - inborn, biological - characteristics
2. the theoretical progress that has given such concepts such as gender identity, androgyny, and the category of sex / gender
3. the part of language that consists of such elements as intonation (sound, tone of voice, volume, and musicality); rhythm; and the body language that occurs as we speak, which reveals our feelings and bodily drives
4. the social and economic oppression of women
5. seeing the world in terms of polar opposites, one of which is considered superior to the other

5 Matching Questions

1. gynophobia
2. gender
3. sexist
4. patriarchy
5. subjectivity

1. a one's own selfhood; the way one views oneself and others ,which develops from one's own individual experiences
2. b cultural programming as feminine or masculine
3. c promoting the belief that woman are innately inferior to men
4. d fear and loathing of women as sexual and reproductive beings
5. e any culture that privileges men by promoting traditional gender roles

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. feminine writing that undermines or eliminates the patriarchal binary thinking that oppresses and silences women
   1. patriarchal woman
   2. transvestite
   3. écriture féminine
   4. questioning
2. inborn inferiority of women
   1. traditional gender roles
   2. social constructionism
   3. biological essentialism
   4. essentializes
3. psychological disorders deemed peculiar to woman and characterized by overemotional, extremely irrational behavior
   1. sexist
   2. hysteria
   3. sex
   4. sisterhood
4. a woman who has internalized the norms and values of patriarchy
   1. patriarchy
   2. patriarchal woman
   3. patriarchal binary thought
   4. the male gaze
5. gender categories are constructed by society
   1. psychoanalytic feminism
   2. sexual difference
   3. biological essentialism
   4. social constructionism

5 True/False Questions

1. cross-dresser → one who adopts both the attire and the behavior of the opposite sex, usually in an exaggerated manner

   True        False

2. gendering → cultural programming as feminine or masculine

   True        False

3. sex → oppression due to direct physical appropriation (reduction of women to the state of material objects) - (the appropriation of women's time, bodies, sexual obligation, and obligation to care for whichever members of the family can't care for themselves as well as for healthy male family members)

   True        False

4. psychoanalytic feminism → the social and economic oppression of women

   True        False

5. sexual difference → the essential, or inborn, differences between women and men

   True        False