I found this interesting quiz via amptoons yesterday. According to the introduction, "The Feminist Perspectives Scale developed by Nancy M. Henley et. al. in 1998 measures five types of feminism that have typically been distinguished from one and other in the study of feminism in the United States, as well as a generic anti-feminism. The scales of the FPS are liberal feminism, radical feminism, socialist feminism, cultural feminism, womanism/WOC, and conservatism." My results:
Women of Color Feminism: 48
Liberal Feminism: 45
Socialist Feminism: 35
Radical Feminism: 30
Cultural Feminism: 17
Conservative: 10 (Which is basically means I have zero conservative values. The scale runs from 10-49.)
I agree with a lot of the commenters on Alas: trans* feminism was entirely absent, some of the questions were worded awkwardly, and overall it's a fairly dated assessment of feminist ideology, but these results don't really surprise me. Liberal feminism, I guess, represents anyone working within a contemporary feminist framework, though it's not entirely without its failures. WOC at the top makes sense, because I came to feminism via women like Angela Davis and Alice Walker, who also better address the intersections of other identities. (Though as a white person, I could never claim womanism for my own.) I'm not a capitalist, so that was reflected in some of my answers also.
I wish queer theory/queer feminism was included, though. And if trans* issues had been addressed, I would have probably scored lower on the radical feminism scale. Not that anyone should put much stake in an online quiz, but I'd like to see what an updated version of this would look like.
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