RUPP/Institute of Foreign Languages Global Studies 202

Department of English Veng Mollika (VMK)

Date: __________ Name: ______________________ Class: _______ Status: ______________

Chapter 11: Sex and Gender (1)

I. Key Terms

Supply the correct terms that correspond to the given definitions. Wrong spelling will result in
mark deduction.
1. refers the philosophy that men and women should be
politically, economically, and socially equal; organized
activities on behalf of this principle.
2. is the rights to vote in public, political elections.
3. is a more general term for a person advocating the extension
of suffrage, especially to women.
4. is known as the women’s movement that had a radical
branch that wanted to reform all the institutions of society,
and a conservative branch whose goal was to win the vote
for women.
5. refers to the protest against gender inequalities in which the
goals were broad, ranging from raising women’s pay to
changing policies on violence against women and legalizing
abortion.
6. is the current wave that has three main divisions: solving
problems of women in the least industrialized nations,
criticizing the values that dominate work and society, and
emphasizing on women’s sexual pleasure.
7. is glossed as a set of beliefs, attitudes, norms and values
used to justify sexual inequality.
8. are the expectations regarding the proper behavior,
attitudes, and activities of males and females.
9. refers to the mostly invisible barrier that keeps women from
advancing to the top levels at work.
10. is glossed as the abuse of one’s position of authority to force
unwanted sexual demands on someone.
11. refers to a person's sexual identity in relation to the gender
to which they are attracted; the fact of being heterosexual,
homosexual, or bisexual.
12. is the crime of raping a girl or woman committed by
somebody she has gone out with on a date.
13. refers to violence between members of the same family.

II. Vocabulary
Match the words with their definitions.

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Words Definitions Answer

1. prolonged a. a fight or argument 1. ____
2. ridicule b. an act of hitting someone 2. ____
3. persist c. continuing for a long time 3. ____
4. prerogative d. eliminate any reference to a specific gender (in a word, 4. ____
5. innate text or act) 5. ____
6. faction e. encourage 6. ____
7. battering f. inborn 7. ____
8. promote g. laugh at sb in an unkind way 8. ____
9. degenderize h. special rights or privilege 9. ____
10. confrontation i. try to do or continue doing 10. ____
j. a group within a larger group

III. Passage Completion:

Use the words given in the box to complete each gap in the passage below.

(A) barred (B) beliefs (C) child care (D) discrimination

(E) equality (F) feminist (G) ignorance (H) inferior
(I) labor force (J) reflected (K) suffrage (L) turning point

FEMINISM

Feminism is the belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality
with men. The term feminism also refers to a political movement that works to gain such (1)
______. This movement is sometimes called the women's liberation movement or women's rights
movement.

Feminist (2) ______ have existed throughout history, but feminism did not become
widespread in Europe and the United States until the mid-1800's. At that time, many people
regarded women as (3)______ and less important than men. Such people believed a woman's
proper place was in the home. The law (4)______ this opinion. For example, women were
(5)______ by law from voting in elections or serving on juries. Most institutions of higher
education and most professional careers were also closed to women. Despite strong opposition,
feminism grew in power during the 1800's and 1900's and won a number of new rights for
women. Many people regard the feminist movement—and the resulting changes in the status of
women—as a (6) ______ in the history of society.

One of the first feminist books was A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) by the
British writer Mary Wollstonecraft. In this book, Wollstonecraft described the state of (7)______
in which society kept women. She also pleaded for better educational opportunities. Another
early (8) ______ writer was the American antislavery leader Sarah M. Grimke. She wrote a
pamphlet called Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1838). Grimke
presented a powerful argument against religious leaders who claimed to find support in the
Bible for the inferior position of women.

At first, the feminist movement concentrated on gaining legal equality—especially the

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right to vote, called (9) ______. Women in the United States and many European nations finally
obtained the vote during the early 1900's.

The feminist movement nearly disappeared after women received the right to vote.
During the mid-1900's, however, increasing numbers of women entered the (10)______. They
found that many high-paying jobs were closed to them. A new concern with economic and
social equality helped create a revival of the feminist movement in the 1960's. The National
Organization for Women (NOW) and other feminist groups fought to end educational and job
(11) ______ against women. Large numbers of women entered law, medicine, politics,
business, and other traditionally male fields. Feminists worked for wider availability of birth
control information and legalized abortion. They also called for men and women to share (12)
______ and other family responsibilities.

IV. Comprehension Questions:

Based on your background knowledge and your understanding of the chapter, answer the
following questions in complete and grammatically correct sentences. Write your answers on
an A4 paper.

1. What were the factors leading to the rise of feminism?

2. Briefly describe the first and second waves of feminism.

3. Is there any gender stereotype at school? If so, list down and explain each one briefly.

4. What are gender inequalities at workplace? Explain each one with example.

5. List five forms of violence against women.

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