Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Intersectionality allows feminists to recognize differences among women yet still note all women share a distinctive standpoint because of similar experiences of oppression.
2. Intersectional feminists use the concept of othering to unite groups who have been marginalized.
3. Standpoint theory points out that knowledge is always affected by power relations regardless of one’s membership in dominant or subordinate groups.
4. A bifurcated consciousness is one divided by the contradictions of one’s actual lived experience and the reality of social typifications.
5. Feminist sociological theory links structure and agency.


1. True
2. False
3. True
4. True
5. True

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