Self Quiz Chapter 13: Feminism and Care Ethics

. Throughout most of history, women's experiences have taken place mainly in

the public world.

the private world.

both the public and private world roughly equally.

schools and hospitals.

. Which of the following is true regarding the relationship between care ethics and reason?

Care ethics insists that reason should have no role in moral thinking.

Care ethics considers reason to be the essential basis for all moral thinking.

Care ethics assigns less importance to reason than principle-based theories do.

Care ethics deems reason "men's work."

. Care ethics is a version of

particularism.

universalism.

relativism.

subjectivism.

. A good relationship between a married couple will normally be

symmetric and close.

symmetric but not close.

asymmetric and close.

asymmetric but not close.

. Trust—understood as an important positive moral value—can be meaningfully applied to

individuals.

relationships.

both individuals and relationships.

neither individuals nor relationships.

. Care ethics would typically arrive at moral judgments

using moral reasoning.

using moral reflection.

according to the emotions one feels at the moment.

by exploiting a carer.

. Second wave feminism focused on personal identity and gender, which led to the third wave's focus on critiquing society and exposing its established inequities against women.

True

False

. Each of the following identity markers are distinct: disability, socioeconomic standing, gender, sexual orientation.

True

False

. Fourth wave feminism puts more emphasis on justice than the third wave did, giving renewed force to the issue of reconciling justice and caring.

True

False

. Perhaps the most important challenge for care ethics today is its inability to accommodate justice. But, likewise, other ethical theories can struggle to accommodating caring.

True

False

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