UGC NET/JRF EXAM, June-2022 WOMEN’S STUDIES

Total Questions: 100

1. What is Gender Studies?

Correct Answer: C. It is a field of interdisciplinary study.

2. Whose autobiography is titled Memoirs of a Rolling Stone?

Correct Answer: B. Vina Mazumdar

3. Which of the following refers to the phenomenon that women and children are disproportionately represented among the world's poor compared to men?

Correct Answer: C. Feminization of poverty

4. Who wrote that the origin of patriarchy in the ancient Near East was a 2500-year period from nearly 3100 BC to 600 BC rather than a single event?

Correct Answer: A. Gerda Lerner

5. Who among the following is the author of the book "Queer Theory: An Introduction?"

Correct Answer: C. Annamarie Jagose

6. Who among the following is closely associated with Seneca Falls Convention?

Correct Answer: D. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

7. Which Feminist thought states that, empowerment and equality for women cannot be achieved within the framework of capitalism?

Correct Answer: B. Marxist Feminism

8. Who amongst the following said that "Nature is to culture as female is to male"?

Correct Answer: D. Sherry Ortner

9. During Colonial period Women's education in India was promoted through:

Correct Answer: D. Woods dispatch of 1854

10. Which theory views education as a means of widening the social inequality?

Correct Answer: B. Conflict Theory