WGS EXAM 1 2026/2027 | WOMEN'S &
GENDER STUDIES STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS & EXAM REVIEW
1 of 72
Term
Waves of Feminism
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1. 1848-1920
suffrage, legal status of women, property ownership, racial issues, lynching,
legal disenfranchisement
Stanton, susan b Anthony, ida b wells-barnett
2. 1960-70s
equal opportunity in employment and education, reproductive rights, civil
rights for all people of color, intersectionality
Friedan, now, Audre lorde, combahee river collective
3. 1900s
deconstructing social identities (gender and sexuality), social justice more
broadly, global feminism, sexual violence; increasing visibility of women of
color
Rebecca walker, RBGinsburg
4. 4th waves 2000s
, fast circulation of ideas, digital and social media technology, institutional and
everyday sexism, cyber-harassment, online misogny, BLM movement
16th century European "age of discovery"
spain & Portugal in the americas and carribean
Britain: 1778- apex 1914; decline after ww2 and drive for profit
france: 1830; decline after ww2 "international prestige and glory"
mission civilsatrice: to spread civilization, progress, and other values of the French
Republic through culture, language, religion (Roman Catholicism)
1. all feminists are radical man-hater (dismissible irrationality, misogony- hatred of
women, potential threat to loss of man's power)
2. feminists men are wimps (fear of feminization, emasculation)
3. all feminists are lesbian (homophobia)
4. feminists are outspoken, macho, pushy, narrow-minded (refusing to perform basic
feminity)
5. feminists are cold/uncaring (failing idealized role as caregiver)
6. post feminism (those who believe time has passed and now obsolete, goals of
women movement have already been met)
7. no relevance to lives of women of color
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Definition
power of one group over another through consent, whereby those
who are dominated reproduce the very structures of power that
oppress them
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gender hegemony
intersex discrimination
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3 of 72
Term
Title V11 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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officially placed into a structured system or set of practices
standardized test contain language/gendered content less accessible for girls and
more familiar to boys --> lower test scores for females
A conscious policy of extending a country's power and influence through
diplomacy or military force; aimed at seizing and ruling foreign territory and people
A federal law that prohibits employment discrimination based on race color
religion sex or national origin- workplace discrimination
system where men and masculine bodies dominate because power and authority
are in the hands of adult men
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Definition
enforce anti discrimination laws
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discrimination Espistemology
difference between race and equal employment opportunity
ethnicity commission in 1965
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Term
Fausto-Sterling & "The Five Sexes
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BOTH: social constructs
DIFFERENT:
ethnicity- self-identified and empowering
GENDER STUDIES STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS & EXAM REVIEW
1 of 72
Term
Waves of Feminism
Give this one a go later!
1. 1848-1920
suffrage, legal status of women, property ownership, racial issues, lynching,
legal disenfranchisement
Stanton, susan b Anthony, ida b wells-barnett
2. 1960-70s
equal opportunity in employment and education, reproductive rights, civil
rights for all people of color, intersectionality
Friedan, now, Audre lorde, combahee river collective
3. 1900s
deconstructing social identities (gender and sexuality), social justice more
broadly, global feminism, sexual violence; increasing visibility of women of
color
Rebecca walker, RBGinsburg
4. 4th waves 2000s
, fast circulation of ideas, digital and social media technology, institutional and
everyday sexism, cyber-harassment, online misogny, BLM movement
16th century European "age of discovery"
spain & Portugal in the americas and carribean
Britain: 1778- apex 1914; decline after ww2 and drive for profit
france: 1830; decline after ww2 "international prestige and glory"
mission civilsatrice: to spread civilization, progress, and other values of the French
Republic through culture, language, religion (Roman Catholicism)
1. all feminists are radical man-hater (dismissible irrationality, misogony- hatred of
women, potential threat to loss of man's power)
2. feminists men are wimps (fear of feminization, emasculation)
3. all feminists are lesbian (homophobia)
4. feminists are outspoken, macho, pushy, narrow-minded (refusing to perform basic
feminity)
5. feminists are cold/uncaring (failing idealized role as caregiver)
6. post feminism (those who believe time has passed and now obsolete, goals of
women movement have already been met)
7. no relevance to lives of women of color
Don't know?
2 of 72
Definition
power of one group over another through consent, whereby those
who are dominated reproduce the very structures of power that
oppress them
,Give this one a go later!
gender hegemony
intersex discrimination
Don't know?
3 of 72
Term
Title V11 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Give this one a go later!
officially placed into a structured system or set of practices
standardized test contain language/gendered content less accessible for girls and
more familiar to boys --> lower test scores for females
A conscious policy of extending a country's power and influence through
diplomacy or military force; aimed at seizing and ruling foreign territory and people
A federal law that prohibits employment discrimination based on race color
religion sex or national origin- workplace discrimination
system where men and masculine bodies dominate because power and authority
are in the hands of adult men
, Don't know?
4 of 72
Definition
enforce anti discrimination laws
Give this one a go later!
discrimination Espistemology
difference between race and equal employment opportunity
ethnicity commission in 1965
Don't know?
5 of 72
Term
Fausto-Sterling & "The Five Sexes
Give this one a go later!
BOTH: social constructs
DIFFERENT:
ethnicity- self-identified and empowering
