NPTEL Environment and Development Week 3 Assignment Answers 2024
1. The statement ‘ecofeminism has its origin in the pre-patriarchal biocentric religious perspective’ was advocated by
- Starhawk
- Mary Daly
- Chris Cuomo
- Carol P. Christ
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2. What do radical ecofeminists contend with?
- Patriarchal society does not equate nature and women
- Patriarchal society equates nature and women in order to degrade both
- Ecofeminism is a spiritual movement
- Science is not a mere objectivity, but rather is embedded in power relations
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3. The term ‘ecofeminism’ was coined by
- Françoise d’Eaubonne
- Vandana Shiva
- Greta Gaard
- Maria Mies
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4. Who explored the historical origins of modern ‘reductionist science’?
- Mary grey
- Susan Griffin
- Vandana Shiva
- Greta Gard
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5. Who represented ‘a realist and a materialist connection’ between feminism and ecology?
- Mary Mellor
- Alice Walker
- Nandini Sundar
- Mary Oliver
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6. Which movement could be construed as a foundation of feminist political ecology in India?
- Swadeshi movement
- Satyagraha movement
- Chipko movement
- Narmada movement
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7. Who authored the book The German Ideology?
- Max Weber
- Emile Durkheim and Karl Mannheim
- Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
- Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper
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8. second stage of ecological revolution is called
- Ecosocialist phase.
- Ecogender studies
- Ecofeminism
- Practical Materialism
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9. According to which framework, nature becomes ‘stuff of domination’?
- Feminist political ecology
- Ecology and gender
- Oppressive patriarchal conceptual frameworks
- None of these
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10. Who popularized the materialist ecofeminist perspective?
- Western ecofeminists
- Third world ecofeminists
- Southern ecofeminists
- None of these
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