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

1. Feminism was originally associated with acquiring political and social rights for women.
2. Modern feminism has a connection to virtue ethics in that modern feminists claim that only women can be truly virtuous.
3. Impartiality and fairness are key concepts for modern feminism because much of modern feminism is modeled after Rawls's theory of the original position.
4. There is a strong movement in the academic world to get rid of gender-neutral language in favor of genderspecific language.
5. The term sexual dimorphism means that the two sexes of a species look different, with one sex usually being larger than the other.


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

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