WGS 240 Exam 1 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
what was WGS first called? Why was it changed? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅was just women's
studies, critics said it didn't include all the other genders and ppl in between
core features of wgs - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics
concerning women, gender, and feminism and intersections with things like race, ethnicity, social class,
age, etc
-sees gender as "a central aspect of human existence"
WGS origin - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅created in 1970's
-1970: first women's study dep at Usandiego
-1977 National women's studies association
-started to question why women r left out of Academics and other areas
intersectionality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the interconnected nature of social categorizations such
as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping
and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage
Kimberle Crenshaw - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅prof at Columbia Law School, coined the term
intersectionality
Patricia Hill Collins - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅"Matrix of Domination"; Numerous social factors
subjugating women
Matrix of domination - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the interlocking systems of oppression associated
with race, class, and gender
- reinforce each other just as much as they conflict
Combahee River Collective - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A black feminist lesbian organization active in
Boston from 1974 to 1980, laid the groundwork for intersexuality
, - intersexuality: ppl born w both genetalia
Androcentrism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Male centered; the belief that the male is the norm
-women as outsiders
Patriarchy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a system where men and masculine bodies dominate because
power and authority are in the hands of adult men
Personal is political - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a political argument used as a rallying slogan of
student movement and second-wave feminism from the late 1960s. It underscored the connections
between personal experience and larger social and political structures
-commitment to personal change and societal transformation
feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅concerns equality and justice, inclusive and affirming of women
across their differences
-a personal perspective, political theory, and social movement that advocates for women's rights
first wave of feminism
When? What? Who? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-1848-1920
-suffrage legal status of women, property ownership
-key figures: elizabeth cady stanton, susan b anthony, ida B wells barnett
second wave of feminism
When? What? Who? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-1960-70
-equal opportunity in employment + education and reproductive rights, civil rights for ppl of color
-betty friedan, NOW, audre lorde, combahee rive collective
third wave of feminism
When? What? Who? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-1990's
-deconstructing social identities (gender+sex), social justice, global feminism, sexual violence
ANSWERS
what was WGS first called? Why was it changed? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅was just women's
studies, critics said it didn't include all the other genders and ppl in between
core features of wgs - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics
concerning women, gender, and feminism and intersections with things like race, ethnicity, social class,
age, etc
-sees gender as "a central aspect of human existence"
WGS origin - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅created in 1970's
-1970: first women's study dep at Usandiego
-1977 National women's studies association
-started to question why women r left out of Academics and other areas
intersectionality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the interconnected nature of social categorizations such
as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping
and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage
Kimberle Crenshaw - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅prof at Columbia Law School, coined the term
intersectionality
Patricia Hill Collins - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅"Matrix of Domination"; Numerous social factors
subjugating women
Matrix of domination - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the interlocking systems of oppression associated
with race, class, and gender
- reinforce each other just as much as they conflict
Combahee River Collective - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A black feminist lesbian organization active in
Boston from 1974 to 1980, laid the groundwork for intersexuality
, - intersexuality: ppl born w both genetalia
Androcentrism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Male centered; the belief that the male is the norm
-women as outsiders
Patriarchy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a system where men and masculine bodies dominate because
power and authority are in the hands of adult men
Personal is political - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a political argument used as a rallying slogan of
student movement and second-wave feminism from the late 1960s. It underscored the connections
between personal experience and larger social and political structures
-commitment to personal change and societal transformation
feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅concerns equality and justice, inclusive and affirming of women
across their differences
-a personal perspective, political theory, and social movement that advocates for women's rights
first wave of feminism
When? What? Who? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-1848-1920
-suffrage legal status of women, property ownership
-key figures: elizabeth cady stanton, susan b anthony, ida B wells barnett
second wave of feminism
When? What? Who? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-1960-70
-equal opportunity in employment + education and reproductive rights, civil rights for ppl of color
-betty friedan, NOW, audre lorde, combahee rive collective
third wave of feminism
When? What? Who? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-1990's
-deconstructing social identities (gender+sex), social justice, global feminism, sexual violence
