Chapter 16 Quiz

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. Feminists argue that, among other things, prejudices against women lead to __________.

much-needed discussions about the role of women in society correct incorrect

widespread discrediting of women's ideas and experience correct incorrect

policies that enforce equity correct incorrect

an unbalanced life correct incorrect

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. Many influential male philosophers have explicitly claimed that women lack some characteristic essential to full personhood, thereby rendering women __________.

equivalent to men correct incorrect

less than human correct incorrect

superior to men correct incorrect

a different sort of human than men correct incorrect

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. Much of Mary Wollstonecraft's literary output was in response to the views of Edmund Burke and __________.

Aristotle correct incorrect

Mill correct incorrect

Kant correct incorrect

Rousseau correct incorrect

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. Wollstonecraft criticized the education of women in her day because of the emphasis it put on making women __________.

independent correct incorrect

pleasing to men correct incorrect

virtuous correct incorrect

rational correct incorrect

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. Wollstonecraft believes that women's poor mental health is evidenced by forced__________.

childbirth correct incorrect

conduct and manners correct incorrect

labor correct incorrect

marriage correct incorrect

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. In addition to being an influential feminist philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir was also an important __________.

experimental psychologist correct incorrect

existentialist thinker correct incorrect

French politician correct incorrect

economist correct incorrect

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. Beauvoir's central question in The Second Sex is: What is__________?

gender correct incorrect

the feminine correct incorrect

woman correct incorrect

Other correct incorrect

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. Beauvoir distinguishes between __________.

sociology and philosophy correct incorrect

public and private correct incorrect

biology and gender correct incorrect

man and woman correct incorrect

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. Beauvoir famously declares, __________.

"One never becomes, but is always born, a woman" correct incorrect

"One is born a girl, but becomes a woman" correct incorrect

"Men make women out of girls" correct incorrect

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman" correct incorrect

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. Beauvoir thinks that gender is __________.

indistinct from biology correct incorrect

largely socially determined correct incorrect

largely self-determined correct incorrect

determined by religious forces correct incorrect

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. Feminist ethics is, among other things, __________.

sympathetic to the traditional philosophical emphasis on principles and autonomy correct incorrect

equivalent to care ethics correct incorrect

an approach to morality aimed at advancing the idea that women and men are morally equal correct incorrect

an approach to morality aimed at advancing the idea that women are morally superior to men correct incorrect

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. Care ethics __________.

is fundamentally a consequentialist moral perspective correct incorrect

is fundamentally a utilitarian moral perspective correct incorrect

emphasizes the unique demands of specific situations and the virtues and feelings that are central to close personal relationships correct incorrect

emphasizes the unique demands of family life and the virtues and feelings that are central to familial relationships correct incorrect

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. All but __________ is a characteristic of Held's ethics of care.

the compelling moral salience of attending to and meeting the needs of the particular others for whom we take responsibility correct incorrect

valuing emotion correct incorrect

reconceptualizing traditional notions of public and private correct incorrect

conceptualizing persons as individuals correct incorrect

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. According to Cole, traditional epistemology has mistakenly assumed that __________.

knowledge is possible correct incorrect

conditions of knowing are homogeneous correct incorrect

truth is objective correct incorrect

knowledge is true, justified belief correct incorrect

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. __________ argues that plausible moral theories try to accommodate both an ethic of care and an ethic of obligation.

Mary Wollstonecraft correct incorrect

Simone de Beauvoir correct incorrect

Annette Baier correct incorrect

Nel Noddings correct incorrect

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. Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Men.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. A female philosopher is by definition a feminist philosopher.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Wollstonecraft argues that women's biological limitations are the source of their subjugation to men.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Feminist epistemology focuses most of its attention on the "situated knower."

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Beauvoir believes that one learns to become a woman.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. According to Beauvoir, gender differences are biologically determined.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Wollstonecraft argues that a lack of education prevents women from achieving their full intellectual and moral potential.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. According to Held, the central focus of care ethics is how to encourage everyone to care about each other.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. According to Held, care ethics values, rather than rejects, emotions.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Feminist standpoint theory asserts that different social groups have distinctive kinds of knowledge.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect