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This set of Gender Studies Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Gender Studies Set 5

Q1 | Who introduced PhD programme in women’s history?
  • Gerda Lerner
  • Simone de Beavou
  • Virginia Wolf
  • Betty Friden
Q2 | Who is the author of the book Second Sex?
  • Gerda Lerner
  • Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Virginia Wolf
  • Simone de Beavou*
Q3 | Who disclosed for the first time ‘woman all through history is defined as the‘other’ of man who takes the privilege of being the ‘self’‘?
  • Betty Friedan
  • Joan Scott
  • Simone de Beavou
  • Virginia Wolf
Q4 | Author of the article ‘Can the subaltern speak?’
  • Frantz Fannon
  • Home Babha
  • Gayatri Spivak
  • Antonio Gramsci
Q5 | Author of the book A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in SouthAsia?
  • Bina Agarwal
  • Kirti K.Sha
  • Uma chakravarti
  • Gayatri Spivak
Q6 | Who observed that the lack of women’s property rights as the reason for thedomestic violence against women.?
  • Vina Majumdar
  • Kumkum Sangari
  • Bina Agarwal
  • vandana Shiva
Q7 | Name the author of the work Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India (2014)?
  • Pratiksha Baxi
  • Bina Agarwal
  • vijaya Ramaswami
  • sudesh Vaid
Q8 | Where does women studies begin as an academic discipline ?
  • France
  • USA
  • Switzerland
  • England
Q9 | Name the author of Walking naked. Women, society, spirituality in south India?
  • Bina Agarwal
  • Mandakranta Bose
  • Vijaya Ramaswami
  • Sudesh Vaid
Q10 | Who is the founder of the 50 million Missing Campaign?
  • Prem Chowdhry
  • Rita Banerji
  • Jasodhara Bagchi
  • Mira Dutta gupta
Q11 | Who among the following are the founders of Manushi?
  • Madhu Kishwar
  • Ruth Vanita
  • Vina majumdar
  • madhu Kishwar & Ruth
Q12 | Who among the following is the founding Director of Centre for Women’sDevelopment Studies(CWDS) , New Delhi?
  • Vina Majumdar
  • Vandana Shiva
  • Bina Agarwal
  • Uma Narayan
Q13 | Who is the first woman to win the Sahitya Akademi Award for literature?
  • Amrita Pritam
  • nayanthara Seghal
  • Asra Nomani
  • Gita Mehta
Q14 | What is the purpose of the Honour for Women National Campaign?
  • End gender discrimination
  • end violence against women
  • end caste system
Q15 | Activist whose name is not associated with the work of LGBT ?
  • Medha Patkar
  • anjali goplan
  • Celina Jaitely
  • Tista Das
Q16 | Who is the founder of Naz Foundation( India)Trust?
  • Shakuntala Devi
  • Pablo Ganguli
  • Anjali Goplan
  • Sona Giani
Q17 | Name the author of Dalit women talk differently. A critique of ‘difference’ andtowards a dalit feminist stand point position?
  • Sharmila Rege
  • Anjali Gopalan
  • Shakuntala Devi
  • Medha Pathkar
Q18 | Author of the Feminine Mystique (1963)?
  • Betty Friedan
  • Luce Irigarary
  • Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Simone de Beavour
Q19 | Which is the article against gender discrimination?
  • Artcile 14
  • Article 15
  • Article 17
  • Article 20
Q20 | When did the national commission for Women establish?
  • 1992
  • 1994
  • 1996
  • 1998
Q21 | Who was the first head of the National Commission for Women?
  • Jayanti Patnaik
  • Girija Vyas
  • Lalitha Kumaramangalam
  • Mohini Giri
Q22 | Which is the monthly newsletter of National commission for women?
  • Rashtra Mahila
  • India Calling
  • Manushi
  • women
Q23 | SANGRAM is popular among ---
  • transgenders
  • men
  • women
  • sex workers
Q24 | Which two cities in India have the largest brothel based sex industry?
  • Kolkata & Chennai
  • Mumbai & Kolkata*
  • Mumbai & Goa
  • Bangalore &
Q25 | What is Sonagachi known for?
  • red-light district
  • handicraft
  • silk industry
  • child labour