Assignment Number 8 Discussion/Writing Chapter 5. Sweating it out: The good news and the bad news about Women and Sport.(96-115) Pipher 5. Mothers. (101-114) Crawford & Unger. Ann Rex, My left hand. (93-97) Crawford & Unger. Eugenia Kaw, "Opening" faces: The politics of cosmetic surgery and Asian American women. (98-116). hooks. Chapter 2. Consciousness-raising: A constant change of heart. (7-12)

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1.	How powerful is estrogen? Explain. What was your reaction to the video: "The Greatest Experiment Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth?" What did you learn?
2.	How much influence do you think the drug companies have on the FDA, physicians, and consumers? What kind of influence is that? Who benefits from the sale of Pemarin? What do you think about that? Explain. (Video: Exploding the Estrogen Myth)
3.	What will you tell friends and relatives about whether they should go on Premarin or other estrogen treatments? Explain. (Video: Exploding the Estrogen Myth)
4.	How important are randomized clinical trials? Explain why. Have drugs for women received the same careful research methodology as men? Explain. What do you think of that? How much of the clinical drug research has been funded by drug companies. What do you think of that? (Video: Exploding the Estrogen Myth)
5.	Name a myth about women in sport and the fact that counters that myth. Explain why you chose that myth. (100-102)
6.	What are your reactions to the section on consequences of homophobia? Explain. (106-108)
7.	What are your reactions to "Sweating it out?" Describe a personal experience you have had with these issues. (96-115)
8.	What was your reaction to the Mary Pipher chapter on mothers? What did you especially relate to? Explain.
9.	What is your reaction to "My left hand?" What factors in our culture, do you think, enable bingeing and purging? (93-97)
10.	What is meant by the statement that "In our feminist analyses of femininity and beauty we may sometimes find it difficult to account for cosmetic surgery without undermining the thoughts and decisions of women who opt for it?" Did Eugenia Kaw succeed in showing that the decision of women in her study to undergo cosmetic surgery is often carefully thought out? (101)
11.	How is it that postmodern culture obscures differences? What are the effects? (113)
12.	In hooks' Consciousness-raising chapter, what does she mean by the statement that "The enemy within must be transformed before we can confront the enemy outside? How do you feel about that assertion? Does she make the case for it? (12)