Answer each with a short answer of roughly two paragraphs.
1. According to Catharine Mackinnon
Consciousness raising can also affirm that although women are deprived of power, within the necessity of their compliance is a form of power which they possess
but have not yet seized. Mostly, women comply. Women learn they are defined in terms of subordinate roles; failing to challenge these roles confirms male supremacy in a way it needs. Daily social
actions are seen to cooperate with and conform to a principle. They are not random, natural, socially neutral, or without meaning beyond themselves. They are not freely willed, but they are actions
nonetheless. From seeing that such actions have meaning for maintaining and constantly reaffirming the structure of male supremacy at their expense, women can come to see the possibility, even the
necessity of acting differently. Women can act because they have been acting all along. Although it is one thing to act to preserve power relations and quite another to act to challenge them, once
it is seen that these relations require daily acquiescence, acting on different principles, even in very snall ways, seems not quite so impossible.
(a) Explain Mackinnon’s claim that “Mostly, women comply”? Give an example or examples of “daily social action” that “cooperate with” a “principle” of male supremacy.
(b) Why does women’s discovery
that women are complying with male power through their own actions help women to understand that they can act to challenge male power? Illustrate the role of this insight by continuing your earlier
example(s).
2. Answer as you guess Marx or Plato might answer:
(a) Agree or disagree: if I’m producing goods so that I can exchange my products
for things I want that others have made, then I am treating my own capacity for labor merely as a way of satisfying my desires for the goods I eventually acquire. (b) Agree or disagree: if I am one
of several people cooperating to produce the things that people need, then I am treating my capacity to cooperate with others in producing the things that people need as valuable for its own sake.
For this question you could pick either Marx or Plato, or both.

Answer the following question with a slightly longer essay of roughly five paragraphs.
3. Douglass writes that his fight with Covey was “the turning point in his career as a slave.” While he remains “a slave in form,” he ceases to be “a slave in fact”. Interpret this claim by trying
to make explicit a respect in which Douglass begins to act freely when he begins to resist his enslavement. Feel free to use any