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Philosophy: The Power of Ideas
Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 5/e
Brooke Moore
Kenneth Bruder

Feminist Philosophy

True or False



1

Mary Wollstonecraft believed docility, dependence, and sensitivity were the virtues of women.
A)True
B)False
2

Harriet Taylor was in the first wave of feminists.
A)True
B)False
3

According to Simone de Beauvoir women played the role of Other and men played the role of Self.
A)True
B)False
4

Radical feminism is based on freedom of choice and equality of opportunity.
A)True
B)False
5

Carol Gillian argues that men and women are very similar in the way they reason about moral issues.
A)True
B)False
6

Kate Millett wrote Sexual Politics.
A)True
B)False
7

Most feminists who oppose pornography do so because of its tendency to exhibit and promote homosexuality and bisexuality.
A)True
B)False
8

Women of color often feel torn between the competing claims of their gender and their ethnicity.
A)True
B)False
9

Feminist epistemology rejects the concept of scientists as idealized, objective, dispassionate observers.
A)True
B)False
10

According to Val Plumwood's ecofeminism, the value dualisms of the Western rationalist framework need to be reversed.
A)True
B)False