1.What is patriarchy?

2.The distinction between sex and gender is about nature and ____nurture__________.
3.While sex is biological gender is a social -------construct-------------------.
4. Who articulated the slogan ' personal is political'?
Ans. The second wave feminists.
5.Who considers the dichotomy between public and private to be the basis of all feminist
thoughts for over two centuries?
Ans Carole Pateman.
6. Name the sociologist who pointed out that men fitted the instrumentalist role and the women
that of expression?
Ans. Talcott Parsons.
7.Who wrote 'the Second Sex'?
Ans Simon De Beauvoir.
8. Who propounded that masculinity and femininity are vary socially?
Ans Margaret Mead.
9.Who introduced the concept of gender roles?
Ans. Margaret Mead.
10. Who proposed that masculinity and femininity were a result of learning?
Ans. Ann Oakley
11. Name two American equality feminists.
Ans. Betty friedan and Shulamith Firestone

12. What was the main proposition of the materialist feminists?

13. Who emphasized the nature/culture dichotomy?

Ans.Judith Butler

Long qs
Discuss the various discourses on patriarchy.
Discuss the various discourses on sex gender debate.

Who wrote Sexual Politics?

Kate Millett
Name two sociologists who supported the functionalist view of public private divide.
Talcott Parsons and August Comte

Name a socialist who found capitalism and patriarchy to be irreconciliable.

Iris Young.
What was internal colonisation?
Who were the 'loose women'?
Discuss the public private discourse in the context of India. ( 10 or 15 marks)
What is Max Weber's concept of power? 1
What is Hannah Arendt's idea of power?1
What is Hannah Pitkin's concept of power? 1

How is the concept of power at the heart of all feminist theories? ( 10 or 15 marks)
'Personal is political' Explain in context of radical feminism. 10 or 15 marks

Who wrote Sexual Politics?

Kate Millett
Name two sociologists who supported the functionalist view of public private divide.
Talcott Parsons and August Comte
Name a socialist who found capitalism and patriarchy to be irreconciliable.
Iris Young.
What was internal colonisation?
Who were the 'loose women'?

Discuss the public private discourse in the context of India. ( 10 or 15 marks)

What is Max Weber's concept of power? 1

What is Hannah Arendt's idea of power?1
What is Hannah Pitkin's concept of power? 1

How is the concept of power at the heart of all feminist theories? ( 10 or 15 marks)
Explain the concept of transcendence and immanence in the context of feminist
theories. 10

Name a radical feminist. 1

Catherine Mckinnon Marilyn Frye Carole Pateman
Name a phenomenologist feminist. 1

Iris Young argues that Beauvoir pays less attention to the role of female embodiment
in women's oppression.Explain.10/15
Explain the radical feminist perspective on power. 10/15
Whose idea is structural rational choice theory?

Ann Cudd
An important component of power is __________(oppression) according to Ann Cudd.

The masculinist perspective of power is power over/ power to.

The feminist perspective of power is power to /power over

Short qs1.What is patriarchy?

2.The distinction between sex and gender is about nature and ____nurture__________.
3.While sex is biological gender is a social -------construct-------------------.
4. Who articulated the slogan ' personal is political'?
Ans. The second wave feminists.
Who considers the dichotomy between public and private to be the basis of all
feminist thoughts for over two centuries?
Ans Carole Pateman.
Name the sociologist who pointed out that men fitted the instrumentalist role and
the women that of expression?
Ans. Talcott Parsons.
Who wrote 'the Second Sex'?
Ans Simon De Beauvoir.
Who propounded that masculinity and femininity are vary socially?
Ans Margaret Mead.
Who introduced the concept of g ender roles?
Ans. Margaret Mead.
Who proposed that masculinity and femininity were a result of learning?
Ans. Ann Oakley
Name two American equality feminists.
Ans. Betty friedan and Shulamith Firestone
What was the main proposition of the materialist feminists?
Who emphasized the nature/culture dichotomy?
Ans.Judith Butler
Long qs
Discuss the various discourses on patriarchy.
Discuss the various discourses on sex gender debate.

Who wrote Sexual Politics?

Kate Millett
Name two sociologists who supported the functionalist view of public private divide.
Talcott Parsons and August Comte
Name a socialist who found capitalism and patriarchy to be irreconciliable.
Iris Young.
What was internal colonisation?
Who were the 'loose women'?
Discuss the public private discourse in the context of India. ( 10 or 15 marks)
What is Max Weber's concept of power? 1
What is Hannah Arendt's idea of power?1
What is Hannah Pitkin's concept of power? 1
How is the concept of power at the heart of all feminist theories? ( 10 or 15 marks)
Personal is political' Explain in context of radical feminism. 10 or 15 marks

Explain the concept of transcendence and immanence in the context of feminist

theories. 10
Name a radical feminist. 1
Catherine Mckinnon Marilyn Frye Carole Pateman
Name a phenomenologist feminist. 1
Iris Young argues that Beauvoir pays less attention to the role of female embodiment
in women's oppression.Explain.10/15
Explain the radical feminist perspective on power. 10/15
Was feminism a movement or a philosophy?
What was the argument against the use of the term 'waves" with respect to
feminism? Was feminism a movement or a philosophy?
What was the argument against the use of the term 'waves" with respect to
feminism?

Name some analytic feminists.

Name some pragmatic feminists.
What are the basic assumptions of the pragmatic philosophy?
Does the pragmatic philosophy negate the notion of individual as proposed by the
liberals? If yes how?
What are the basic propositions of the analytic philosophy.10 or 15
On what grounds did the feminists argue to bring the family in the public realm? 10
marks or 15 marks

Discuss the influence of Nietzsche , Foucault and Derrida, on the feminist

philosophy. 10 or 15 marks

What role does the family play in building future citizens?10/15

How can the family be a realm of social injustice?10/15
What is the cycle of vulnerability in women? 10