Honour-based violence is a phenomenon where a person (most often a woman) is subjected to violence by her collective family or community in order to restore ‘honour’, presumed to have been lost by her behaviour, most often through expressions of sexual autonomy.
The idea for the Pakistan Association for Women’s Studies was first conceived in
(a) 1991
(b) 1980
(c) 1989
(d) 1999
Answer: (a)
Explanation:
The idea for the Pakistan Association for Women’s Studies was first conceived in 1991 at the National Workshop on Women’s Studies organized: A Pakistani Perspective by the Centre of Excellence in Women’s Studies at the University of Karachi. PAWS was formed in March 1991 in Karachi by activists and academics with feminist consciousness to acts as a catalyst to bring about the empowerment of women, transforming a gender biased society into one inclusive of gender equity and social justice.
Feminist pedagogy is?
(a) Teaching Strategies
(b) Epistemological Assumption
(c) both a & b
(d) None of these
Answer: (a)
Explanation:
Feminist pedagogy is a way of thinking about teaching and learning, rather than a prescriptive method. As such, it is used in different ways and for differing purposes within and across disciplines and learning environments. Definitions of feminist pedagogy vary widely, but there is common agreement on these three key tenets:
• Resisting hierarchy: In the learning environment, the teacher figure and students work against the creation of a hierarchy of authority between teacher and student; the students also deliver ‘content’ and influence the design of the class.
• Using experience as a resource: As well as using traditional sources of information, such as academic journals and books, the students’ and teachers’ own experiences are used as ‘learning materials’. The purpose of using experience as a resource is twofold: firstly, experiences which have not been documented in academic work are brought into discussion, and secondly the class participants experience transformative learning…
• Transformative learning: Feminist pedagogy aims for the class participants (students and teachers) not just to acquire new knowledge, but for their thinking to shift in new directions. This may involve the realization that personal interpretations of experience or of social phenomena can be re-read and validated in new, critical ways
‘Structural adjustment’ programmes require that _________
(a) Governments of poor countries should adopt privatization and other ‘liberalizing’ measures.
(b) Governments of poor countries should knock down all ugly or dilapidated buildings.
(c) States with weak economies should redistribute more resources to the poor.
(d) Ministers in under-performing countries should go on diets and keep fit.
Answer: (a)
Structural adjustment programs often encourage all the following EXCEPT
(a) Selling off public resources to private corporations
(b) Higher taxation rates
(c) Closing of export-processing zones
(d) Reducing government expenditures
(e) Charging citizens more for government services
Answer: (c)
The All India Muslim Ladies Conference was founded in the year
(a) 1914
(b) 1927
(c) 1931
(d) 1947
Answer: (a)
The idea for the Pakistan Association for Women’s Studies was first conceived in
(a) 1981
(b) 1991
(c) 1951
(d) 1947
Answer: (b)
The first country to adopt a National Family Planning Programme?
(a) Pakistan
(b) China
(c) India
(d) Brazil
Answer: (c)
Who identified women’s role in economic development for the first time?
(a) Simon de
(b) Maria Mies
(c) Ester Boserup
(d) Peggy Antrobus
Answer: (c)
Which one of the following is not part of development?
(a) Economic growth
(b) Subsistence agriculture
(c) The reduction of poverty
(d) Improving levels of literacy
Answer (b)
Which one of the following is an example of social development?
(a) People becoming more outgoing and sociable
(b) Growing consumption of American and European consumer goods
(c) Rising numbers of doctors and hospitals
(d) Better equipped and trained armies
Answer (c)
Mary Wollstonecraft was a
(a) Liberal Feminist
(c) Radical Feminist
(b) Marxist Feminist
(d) Psycho Analyst
Answer: (a)
Which school of feminist thought emerged as a result of gender blind character of Marxist thought?
(a) Radical Feminist thought
(b) Liberal Feminist thought
(c) Psychoanalytic thought
(d) Socialist Feminist thought
Answer: (d)
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Feminist Theory?
(a) Feminist Theory treats women as the central subject of investigation
(b). Feminist Theory promotes activism on behalf of women
(c). Feminist Theory is multicultural in orientation
(d). Feminist Theory advocates a linear understanding of the historical experiences of women.
Answer: (d)