Feminist book quiz
Feminist book quiz
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How well do you know your feminist literature? Explore your favourite feminist writers (and perhaps discover a few new names to explore on the way) with our feminist book quiz. May the odds be in your favour…
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Congratulations on taking the quiz! When it comes to feminist literature, there’s such a wealth of important work out there and this quiz barely scratched the surface. Even so, we hope you found some names you’d like to check out a bit more.
Here are some Amazon links to some of the great feminist writers acknowledged in this quiz. You can use the links to explore their works and also the reviews at your leisure. Happy foraging!
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Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Mary Collier and Mary Leapor were all women writing in the 18th century. Mary Collier is known in particular for her poetic riposte to Stephen Duck, The Woman’s Labour. As you probably know, Mary Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft’s daughter) knocked it out of the park and wrote Frankenstein.
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Audre Lorde is the poet and author who wrote Sister Outsider. The work of Ida B. Wells and Zora Neale Hurston is essential reading for anyone wanting to expand their understanding of the feminist perspective of people of colour. Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist and women’s rights activist who was born into slavery and who gave the famous Ain’t I a Woman? speech.
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Charlotte Gilman Perkins wrote The Yellow Wallpaper and explained that it stemmed from her own experiences as a patient of a physician who tried to reduce all her mental stimulation – including writing – as treatment for depression.
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Pippi Longstocking and Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter were, of course, created by Astrid Lindgren! Tove Jansson wrote the Moomins series, MM Kaye wrote The Ordinary Princess and Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote the Anne of Green Gables series. These women all rocked our childhood worlds.
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Radical playwright Valerie Solanas wrote The SCUM Manifesto, and is also known for shooting Andy Warhol.
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A Room of One’s Own, written by Virginia Woolf, is an essay detailing why women need intellectual freedom and financial independence.
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Nevada by Imogen Binnie, First Spring Grass Fire by Rae Spoon, For Today I Am a Boy by Kim Fu and I Am J by Cris Beam are – yep, you guessed it – all YA novels featuring trans* protagonists! There are more out there, and let’s hope there are many, many more to come. YA literature is steadily becoming the watchword for inclusive, progressive reads.
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Mary Ann Evans wrote Middlemarch and other classic novels as George Eliot. Alice Bradley Sheldon wrote her sci-fi as James Tiptree. Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre under the rather exciting name of Currer Bell (and her sister, Emily Bronte, penned Wuthering Heights as Ellis Bell). What did all these women have in common? They all knew society would only judge their work on its own merits if the authors were perceived to be men.
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Malala Yousafzai, author of I am Malala, celebrated her 18th birthday by setting up a school for Syrian refugee girls. However, she had already previously won the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, and both leads and inspires The Malala Fund!
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Elizabeth Montagu set up the Blue Stockings Society. She is the Queen of the Bluestockings. The society’s name is partly attributed to woollen worsted stockings (especially in blue) being a sign of informality and potential poverty, unlike the wearing of black silk stockings.
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Congratulations on taking the quiz! You have a strong handle on feminist literature. Were there just a couple of answers you weren’t sure about? When it comes to feminist literature, there’s such a wealth of important work out there and this quiz barely scratched the surface. Even so, we hope you found some names you’d like to check out a bit more. So many books, so little time… but so much potential.
Here are some Amazon links to some of the great feminist writers acknowledged in this quiz. You can use the links to explore their works and also the reviews at your leisure. Happy foraging!
1.
Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Mary Collier and Mary Leapor were all women writing in the 18th century. Mary Collier is known in particular for her poetic riposte to Stephen Duck, The Woman’s Labour. As you probably know, Mary Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft’s daughter) knocked it out of the park and wrote Frankenstein.
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Audre Lorde is the poet and author who wrote Sister Outsider. The work of Ida B. Wells and Zora Neale Hurston is essential reading for anyone wanting to expand their understanding of the feminist perspective of people of colour. Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist and women’s rights activist who was born into slavery and who gave the famous Ain’t I a Woman? speech.
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Charlotte Gilman Perkins wrote The Yellow Wallpaper and explained that it stemmed from her own experiences as a patient of a physician who tried to reduce all her mental stimulation – including writing – as treatment for depression.
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Pippi Longstocking and Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter were, of course, created by Astrid Lindgren! Tove Jansson wrote the Moomins series, MM Kaye wrote The Ordinary Princess and Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote the Anne of Green Gables series. These women all rocked our childhood worlds.
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Radical playwright Valerie Solanas wrote The SCUM Manifesto, and is also known for shooting Andy Warhol.
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A Room of One’s Own, written by Virginia Woolf, is an essay detailing why women need intellectual freedom and financial independence.
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Nevada by Imogen Binnie, First Spring Grass Fire by Rae Spoon, For Today I Am a Boy by Kim Fu and I Am J by Cris Beam are – yep, you guessed it – all YA novels featuring trans* protagonists! There are more out there, and let’s hope there are many, many more to come. YA literature is steadily becoming the watchword for inclusive, progressive reads.
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Mary Ann Evans wrote Middlemarch and other classic novels as George Eliot. Alice Bradley Sheldon wrote her sci-fi as James Tiptree. Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre under the rather exciting name of Currer Bell (and her sister, Emily Bronte, penned Wuthering Heights as Ellis Bell). What did all these women have in common? They all knew society would only judge their work on its own merits if the authors were perceived to be men.
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Malala Yousafzai, author of I am Malala, celebrated her 18th birthday by setting up a school for Syrian refugee girls. However, she had already previously won the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, and both leads and inspires The Malala Fund!
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Elizabeth Montagu set up the Blue Stockings Society. She is the Queen of the Bluestockings. The society’s name is partly attributed to woollen worsted stockings (especially in blue) being a sign of informality and potential poverty, unlike the wearing of black silk stockings.
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Imperator
Congratulations on taking the quiz! So many books, so little time… but you won’t let little things like time stop you. Your approach to feminism is inclusive and your approach to books is voracious. You’re quite the velociraptor when it comes to feminist literature.
Here are some Amazon links to some of the great feminist writers acknowledged in this quiz. You can use the links to explore their works and also the reviews at your leisure. Happy foraging!
1.
Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Mary Collier and Mary Leapor were all women writing in the 18th century. Mary Collier is known in particular for her poetic riposte to Stephen Duck, The Woman’s Labour. As you probably know, Mary Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft’s daughter) knocked it out of the park and wrote Frankenstein.
2.
Audre Lorde is the poet and author who wrote Sister Outsider. The work of Ida B. Wells and Zora Neale Hurston is essential reading for anyone wanting to expand their understanding of the feminist perspective of people of colour. Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist and women’s rights activist who was born into slavery and who gave the famous Ain’t I a Woman? speech.
3.
Charlotte Gilman Perkins wrote The Yellow Wallpaper and explained that it stemmed from her own experiences as a patient of a physician who tried to reduce all her mental stimulation – including writing – as treatment for depression.
4.
Pippi Longstocking and Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter were, of course, created by Astrid Lindgren! Tove Jansson wrote the Moomins series, MM Kaye wrote The Ordinary Princess and Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote the Anne of Green Gables series. These women all rocked our childhood worlds.
5.
Radical playwright Valerie Solanas wrote The SCUM Manifesto, and is also known for shooting Andy Warhol.
6.
A Room of One’s Own, written by Virginia Woolf, is an essay detailing why women need intellectual freedom and financial independence.
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Nevada by Imogen Binnie, First Spring Grass Fire by Rae Spoon, For Today I Am a Boy by Kim Fu and I Am J by Cris Beam are – yep, you guessed it – all YA novels featuring trans* protagonists! There are more out there, and let’s hope there are many, many more to come. YA literature is steadily becoming the watchword for inclusive, progressive reads.
8.
Mary Ann Evans wrote Middlemarch and other classic novels as George Eliot. Alice Bradley Sheldon wrote her sci-fi as James Tiptree. Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre under the rather exciting name of Currer Bell (and her sister, Emily Bronte, penned Wuthering Heights as Ellis Bell). What did all these women have in common? They all knew society would only judge their work on its own merits if the authors were perceived to be men.
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Malala Yousafzai, author of I am Malala, celebrated her 18th birthday by setting up a school for Syrian refugee girls. However, she had already previously won the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, and both leads and inspires The Malala Fund!
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Elizabeth Montagu set up the Blue Stockings Society. She is the Queen of the Bluestockings. The society’s name is partly attributed to woollen worsted stockings (especially in blue) being a sign of informality and potential poverty, unlike the wearing of black silk stockings.
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Which notable children’s author frequently featured strong female protagonists in works like Pippi Longstocking and Ronia the Robber’s Daughter?
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Who wrote A Room of One’s Own?
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Who wrote one of the first-ever feminist books, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in 1792?
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“Perhaps … I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian, because I am myself — a Black woman warrior poet doing my work — come to ask you, are you doing yours?”
Who wrote the words above? Note: Sister Outsider, a collection of essays defining racism, theorising oppression and shaping major thoughts in modern black feminism, was also written by this influential poet, activist and author.
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Which acclaimed short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman details a woman’s descent into mental ill health after she is treated for “a slight hysterical tendency” by being forbidden from working, in accordance with 19th century attitudes to women’s health?
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Which controversial piece of work by Valerie Solanas is widely seen as satire and begins with the theory of the male as an “incomplete female” who is genetically deficient due to the Y chromosome?
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Which of these YA books features trans* protagonists?
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Which of these authors was a woman writing her works using the pen-name of a man?
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai wrote an autobiography called I am Malala after being shot for blogging about girls’ rights to an education, and called on world leaders to “invest in books not bullets”. How did she celebrate her 18th birthday?
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Question 10 of 10
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In the 1750s, Elizabeth Montagu helped to found a literary society that became an informal women’s social and educational movement in England and placed a focus on mutual co-operation. What was this society called?
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