Deck 13: Feminism and Care Ethics

Question 1

On which of the following do feminists tend to disagree?

A) Society needs to become more aware of women's experiences.
B) The binary gender distinction should be replaced by a multiplicity of gender concepts.
C) Society has numerous biases built around gender.
D) All feminists agree on each of these concepts.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The third wave of feminists focus especially on

A) campaigning for women's suffrage.
B) supporting social reforms.
C) exploring personal identity and gender.
D) fighting institutionalized oppression.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Caring relationships help develop persons as caring and often play a crucial role in developing a person's identity. These points most have to do with

A) mutuality.
B) transformation.
C) the normative nature of care ethics.
D) the nature/nurture debate.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The model relationship for care theory is usually thought to be the _______ relationship.

A) father/child
B) sisterhood
C) mother/child
D) instructor/student

Question 5

The best caring relationships involve sharing feelings, knowledge, concerns, and trust, all having to do with

A) mutuality.
B) transformation.
C) the normative nature of care ethics.
D) individualism.

Question 6

What can help promote and nurture caring in relationships?

A) Engaging in the same kind of practicing that is required to develop virtues
B) Having caring explained clearly so you understand its key components
C) Being cared for within a caring relationship
D) Learning the duties and principles that define caring relationships

Question 7

Which of the following would not be considered a genderized moral perspective?

A) The masculine emphasis on justice
B) The feminine emphasis on caring
C) The emphasis our society and its laws tend to take
D) The transcendent moral perspective some care ethicists would like to achieve

Question 8

It is exceedingly difficult to see how care ethics can be extended to caring for

A) people elsewhere in the world, even though we share many mutual interests and concerns.
B) people of other political parties.
C) ourselves.
D) the opposite sex.

Question 9

Care ethicists typically hold the view that our genderized perspectives

A) are products of nature and so can be changed.
B) are products of nurture and so can be changed.
C) are products of nature and so cannot be changed.
D) are products of nurture and so cannot be changed.

Question 10

Probably the most serious problem for care ethics is

A) supporting a moral responsibility for caring in distant and asymmetric relationships.
B) that it may encourage exploitative relationships.
C) how to bring caring and justice together in one consistent account.
D) reconciling its theories with principle-based ethics.

Question 11

Care ethics resembles virtue ethics more than most other theories. However, one important area in which they differ is that one _______, the other _______.

A) focuses relationships; on the individual
B) takes emotions into account; does not
C) offers absolute rules to follow; does not
D) supports feminism; prefers the status quo

Question 12

When we objectify a person or group of persons, we

A) emphasize their unique individuality.
B) acknowledge their inherent value.
C) make it harder to excuse discrimination against them.
D) None of the above

Question 13

Fourth wave feminism

A) appears to reject the care theorists' project of degenderizing people and ethics.
B) tends to embrace a multiplicity of genders.
C) returns to the nature/nurture question.
D) All of the above

Question 14

Throughout most of history, women's experiences have taken place mainly in

A) the public world.
B) the private world.
C) both the public and private world roughly equally.
D) schools and hospitals.

Question 15

Which of the following is true regarding the relationship between care ethics and reason?

A) Care ethics insists that reason should have no role in moral thinking.
B) Care ethics considers reason to be the essential basis for all moral thinking.
C) Care ethics assigns less importance to reason than principle-based theories do.
D) Care ethics deems reason "men's work."

Question 16

Gilligan maintains that the care perspective is mainly adopted by

A) males.
B) females.
C) all genders.
D) just children.

Question 17

Care ethics is a version of

A) particularism.
B) universalism.
C) relativism.
D) subjectivism.

Question 18

A good relationship between a married couple will normally be

A) symmetric and close.
B) symmetric but not close.
C) asymmetric and close.
D) asymmetric but not close.

Question 19

Trust-understood as an important positive moral value-can be meaningfully applied to

A) individuals.
B) relationships.
C) both individuals and relationships.
D) neither individuals nor relationships.

Question 20

Care ethics would typically arrive at moral judgments

A) using moral reasoning.
B) using moral reflection.
C) according to the emotions one feels at the moment.
D) by exploiting a carer.

Question 21

Interpreting caring purely as a virtue requires that it be

A) ascribed to relationships.
B) viewed as a character trait ascribed to individuals.
C) meaningfully applied to both individuals and relationships.
D) None of the above

Question 22

Fourth wave feminism

A) is active around the world.
B) represents a greater diversity among its members than previous feminist movements.
C) makes extensive use of the internet and social media.
D) All of the above

Question 23

The moral implications of care theory are not limited to the moral issues relating to two-person relationships-they can extend to larger political and economic issues.

Question 24

Justice and caring are both important moral values needed in society. Thankfully, they are compatible.

Question 25

Care ethics rejects an exaggerated individualism; it is a relational ethic.

Question 26

Intersectionality refers to the fact that people fill all the various identity markers with no overlap.

Question 27

Second wave feminism focused on personal identity and gender, which led to the third wave's focus on critiquing society and exposing its established inequities against women.

Question 28

Each of the following identity markers are distinct: disability, socioeconomic standing, gender, sexual orientation.

Question 29

Fourth wave feminism puts more emphasis on justice than the third wave did, giving renewed force to the issue of reconciling justice and caring.

Question 30

Perhaps the most important challenge for care ethics today is its inability to accommodate justice. But, likewise, other ethical theories can struggle to accommodating caring.