WGS 240 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Androcentrism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The belief or practice of centering men's experiences,
perspectives, and values as the norm or default for humanity.
Patriarchy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A social system where men hold primary power and dominate in
political, moral, social, and economic life.
Intersectionality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A framework recognizing how different forms of oppression
(race, gender, class, sexuality, etc.) intersect to shape people's lived experiences.
Intersectional Invisibility - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The tendency for people with multiple marginalized
identities to be overlooked or misrepresented in social movements or research.
Epistemology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The study of knowledge: how we know what we know, who is
believed, and whose experiences count as truth.
Feminist Wave Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A way of categorizing feminist movements into historical
"waves" based on their goals and contexts.
First Wave Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Focused on legal rights, especially women's suffrage
(19th-early 20th century).
Second Wave Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Emphasized equality in the workplace, sexuality,
reproductive rights, and consciousness-raising (1960s-1980s).
Third Wave Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Focused on intersectionality, diversity, and individual
empowerment (1990s-2000s).
Fourth Wave Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Uses digital activism and emphasizes inclusivity,
intersectionality, and sexual autonomy (2010s-present).
, Stereotypes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Oversimplified, fixed ideas about groups of people that reinforce
social hierarchies.
Myths of Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False ideas that feminists hate men, reject femininity, or
seek superiority rather than equality.
Radical Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Seeks to dismantle patriarchal structures entirely, not just
reform them.
Liberal Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Advocates for equality through legal and political reform
within existing institutions.
Lifestyle Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Treats feminism as a personal identity or aesthetic rather
than a political movement.
Multicultural/Multiracial Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Highlights how race, ethnicity, and culture
intersect with gender oppression.
Revolutionary Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Calls for fundamental social and political change to
dismantle patriarchy and other systems of oppression.
Hegemonic Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A dominant form of feminism centered on white, middle-
class, heterosexual women's experiences while ignoring others.
WEEK 2 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅
Consciousness-Raising Groups - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Small groups where women shared personal
experiences to reveal collective oppression.
Hegemony - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The dominance of one group's worldview, values, or norms as
"common sense" or natural.
Androcentrism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The belief or practice of centering men's experiences,
perspectives, and values as the norm or default for humanity.
Patriarchy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A social system where men hold primary power and dominate in
political, moral, social, and economic life.
Intersectionality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A framework recognizing how different forms of oppression
(race, gender, class, sexuality, etc.) intersect to shape people's lived experiences.
Intersectional Invisibility - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The tendency for people with multiple marginalized
identities to be overlooked or misrepresented in social movements or research.
Epistemology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The study of knowledge: how we know what we know, who is
believed, and whose experiences count as truth.
Feminist Wave Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A way of categorizing feminist movements into historical
"waves" based on their goals and contexts.
First Wave Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Focused on legal rights, especially women's suffrage
(19th-early 20th century).
Second Wave Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Emphasized equality in the workplace, sexuality,
reproductive rights, and consciousness-raising (1960s-1980s).
Third Wave Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Focused on intersectionality, diversity, and individual
empowerment (1990s-2000s).
Fourth Wave Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Uses digital activism and emphasizes inclusivity,
intersectionality, and sexual autonomy (2010s-present).
, Stereotypes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Oversimplified, fixed ideas about groups of people that reinforce
social hierarchies.
Myths of Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False ideas that feminists hate men, reject femininity, or
seek superiority rather than equality.
Radical Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Seeks to dismantle patriarchal structures entirely, not just
reform them.
Liberal Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Advocates for equality through legal and political reform
within existing institutions.
Lifestyle Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Treats feminism as a personal identity or aesthetic rather
than a political movement.
Multicultural/Multiracial Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Highlights how race, ethnicity, and culture
intersect with gender oppression.
Revolutionary Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Calls for fundamental social and political change to
dismantle patriarchy and other systems of oppression.
Hegemonic Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A dominant form of feminism centered on white, middle-
class, heterosexual women's experiences while ignoring others.
WEEK 2 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅
Consciousness-Raising Groups - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Small groups where women shared personal
experiences to reveal collective oppression.
Hegemony - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The dominance of one group's worldview, values, or norms as
"common sense" or natural.
