WMST 1000 Final Exam 2026
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First wave of feminism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- Late 18th century to the 1930s
- Education, political representation, suffrage
Second wave of feminism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- 1960s to early 1980s
- Social and legal status of women, changes to existing patriarchal laws,
improve representation in the media
Third wave of feminism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- Late 1980s to present
, - Feminist politics, discussing race, class, age, and ability in the analysis of
oppression
Social constructivism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A theoretical perspective that is
contrary to naturalism/essentialism
Essentialism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The view that gender is biologically
determined
"Women and men are equal but different"
"The problem with no name" - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The feeling of anxiety, lack of
control, unhappiness that women felt in the mid-20th century
Betty Friedan
BIDS - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Body image distortion syndrome
Postmodernism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Theoretical perspective that is critical of
liberal and Marxist views, something about how individuals are socially
constructed
Discourse - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ways of thinking, speaking, and doing within a
system of meaningful signs
Expert Verified | Ace the Test
First wave of feminism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- Late 18th century to the 1930s
- Education, political representation, suffrage
Second wave of feminism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- 1960s to early 1980s
- Social and legal status of women, changes to existing patriarchal laws,
improve representation in the media
Third wave of feminism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- Late 1980s to present
, - Feminist politics, discussing race, class, age, and ability in the analysis of
oppression
Social constructivism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A theoretical perspective that is
contrary to naturalism/essentialism
Essentialism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The view that gender is biologically
determined
"Women and men are equal but different"
"The problem with no name" - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The feeling of anxiety, lack of
control, unhappiness that women felt in the mid-20th century
Betty Friedan
BIDS - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Body image distortion syndrome
Postmodernism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Theoretical perspective that is critical of
liberal and Marxist views, something about how individuals are socially
constructed
Discourse - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ways of thinking, speaking, and doing within a
system of meaningful signs
