Theory
Getting the word out
bell hooks
Feminist movement
Women's Studies
100

___ _____ had its primary goal explaining to women and men how sexist thinking worked and how we could challeng and change it.  

What is feminist theory

100

Feminst theory was available by ____ _ _____ ,

__________, and __________.

word of mouth

newsletters and pamphlets

100

This is the title of bell hooks first book.

Ain't I a woman: Black Women and Feminism  

100

feminist movement gained momentum when...

it entered the academy

100

Why were  Women’s studies programs created in colleges and universities?

to provide institutional legitimaion for academic focus on work by women.

200

Feminist theory was shared in _________?

groups or conciousness raising groups

200

________  _________ is where women wrote, printed and controlled production on all levels including marketing.

women's publishing

200

Her dissertation centered on the work of this woman writer.

Toni Morrison

200

the production of feminist thinking and theory was ___________   ______ in that women were constantly in dialogue about ideas, testing and reshaping our paradigms.

collaborative work

200

By the late '80s most feminist scholarship reflected an awareness of ________ and _______ differences.

race and class

300

Early groups included an analysis of _______, and stratgies for _________   ____________.

Sexisim 

challegning partriarchy

300

The citizens of this nation cannot know the _____ __________ ________ ___________ has

made to all our lives if we do not highlight these gains.

positive contributions feminist movement

300

According to hook, who is the most canonized black women writer in American Literature? 

Zora Neale Hurston

300

Suddenly the feminist thinking that had emerged directly from theory and practice received less attention than theory that was written solely for an _______ _________

academic audience

300

We need a 

_____  ______   _________ that would help us

spread feminist thinking globally

feminist television network

400

New models for social interaction were needed because we had been socailized by_________ and ________ to accept ________  ____________. 

parents and society 

sexist thinking

400

Name one of the most powerful and successful interventions of contemporary feminism. 

Producing a body of feminist literature coupled with the recovery of women's history

400

She came to ______ ________ by challenging male domination in her patriarchal household. 

feminist thinking

400

Literature that helps inform masses of people, that helps individuals understand feminist thinking and feminist politics, needs to be ________ _______ __________. 

written in a range of styles and formats

accessible to youth culture

community based

400

By failing to create a mass-based educational movement to teach everyone about feminism we allow mainstream patriarchal mass media to remain the primary place where folks learn about feminism, and most of what they learn is __________

negative

500

Everything we do in life is rooted in 

Theory

500

In all spheres of literary writing and academic scholarship, works by women had recieved little or no attention due to ________  _________

gender discrimination

500

her birth name and where her institute is located 

Gloria Watkins

Berea College, Appalachia


500

________  _________ is one of the most

crucial sites for feminist education for critical consciousness precisely because beliefs and identities are still being formed.

Children's literature

500

Women scholars who were truly committed to feminist movement and _____ ______were eager to produce theory that

would address the realities of ______ _______.

female solidarity

most women

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