2.3.3 Key thinkers

• Feminism is a political and social movement advocating for gender equality.
• Which diverse schools of thought are included in feminism?

  Liberal, socialist, radical
• Match the feminist thinker with their key idea:

  Mary Wollstonecraft ↔️ Women's equal rights and education

  Simone de Beauvoir ↔️ Social construction of gender

  bell hooks ↔️ Intersection of gender, race, and class

  Judith Butler ↔️ Gender performativity
• Simone de Beauvoir challenged the notion of women as the second sex.
• What concept did Judith Butler develop that challenges fixed gender identities?

  Gender performativity
• Simone de Beauvoir rejected the idea of a fixed, essential female identity.

  True
• Judith Butler argued that gender is a socially constructed performance.
• What is the title of Simone de Beauvoir's seminal work on gender?

  The Second Sex
• Mary Wollstonecraft argued for women's equal rights and education in her work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• bell hooks emphasized the intersections of gender, race, and class in her writings on feminist theory.


  True
• Match the feminist thinker with their key idea:

  Mary Wollstonecraft ↔️ Equal rights and education

  Simone de Beauvoir ↔️ The second sex

  bell hooks ↔️ Intersections of oppression

  Judith Butler ↔️ Gender performativity
• Feminism is a political and social movement advocating for gender equality
• Match the key element of feminism with its description:

  Political and social movement ↔️ Strives to transform societal norms

  Gender equality ↔️ Equal rights and opportunities

  Patriarchal systems ↔️ Structures favoring male dominance

  Diverse schools of thought ↔️ Includes liberal, socialist, radical feminism
• bell hooks emphasized the intersections of gender, race, and class in her feminist theory.


  True
• What is feminism primarily concerned with?

  Gender equality
• Patriarchal systems are structures that favor male dominance.


  True
• Feminism ensures gender equality by challenging systems that have historically favored men.
• What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft's most famous work?

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• bell hooks emphasized the intersection of gender, race, and class.


  True
• Mary Wollstonecraft argued for women's equal rights and education.
• What did bell hooks highlight in her writings on feminist theory and activism?

  Intersection of oppression
• Mary Wollstonecraft challenged the view that women were intellectually inferior to men.


  True
• Judith Butler's concept of gender performativity challenges the idea of a stable, essential identity.
• What term did Simone de Beauvoir use to describe women's societal position in "The Second Sex"?

  Second sex
• Judith Butler developed the concept of gender performativity, arguing that gender is a socially constructed performance.
• Which two feminist thinkers focused on social and political structures that historically disadvantaged women?

  Wollstonecraft and de Beauvoir
• Feminism aims to transform societal norms and power structures.


  True
• In which work did Mary Wollstonecraft argue for women's equal rights and education?

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Judith Butler's concept of gender performativity challenges the idea of a stable, essential gender identity
• What is the title of Simone de Beauvoir's seminal work?

  The Second Sex
• Judith Butler believes that gender is a fixed, innate identity.

  False
• Which two thinkers emphasized the social and political structures disadvantaging women?

  Wollstonecraft and de Beauvoir
• Simone de Beauvoir's ideas were instrumental in challenging the concept of a fixed female identity.


  True
• Judith Butler's concept of gender performativity argues that gender is a socially constructed performance
• The ideas of key feminist thinkers continue to guide contemporary feminist movements.

  True
• What central idea did Simone de Beauvoir explore in her book "The Second Sex"?

  Social construction of gender
• Mary Wollstonecraft argued for women's equal rights and education
• Match the thinker with their key idea:

  Simone de Beauvoir ↔️ Rejected notion of women as "second sex"

  Judith Butler ↔️ Developed concept of gender performativity

  bell hooks ↔️ Emphasized intersections of oppression

  Mary Wollstonecraft ↔️ Argued for women's equal rights
• Mary Wollstonecraft's work "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" challenged the prevailing view that women were intellectually inferior
• What is the term for the type of feminism developed by bell hooks?

  Intersectional feminism