Assignment Number 13 Discussion/Writing Chrisler Chapter 12. Women with disabilities. (C 190 - 203) Crawford & Unger. Greta Christina, Are we having sex yet? (163-166) Crawford & Unger. Michelle Fine, Coping with rape: Critical perspectives on consciousness. (167-179) Pipher. Drugs and alcohol--If Ophelia were alive today. (186-202) hooks 7. Feminist class struggle. (37-43)

Student Name _____________________ Date due: 10-23-07 Psychology 258 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph.D.

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1.	What is your reaction to the discussion with Dianna Hunter, Women & Gender Issues Coordinator? What did you think was particularly important? If you weren't in class, then what did you learn from the people in you group and what did you learn from the notes that Dr. B. put on the web? (Dr. B.'s notes will be linked to the web this coming weekend.)
2.	What was your reaction to the video: Is It a Boy or A Girl? What was your reaction to the mini-lecture and paper handouts on prenatal sexual differentiation? What did you learn?
3.	What is your reaction to Rhoda Olkin's article on Women with Disabilities? What did you find most important? What did you learn? (C 190 - 203)
4.	What is your reaction to Table 1 in Rhoda Olkin's article on Women with Disabilities? What is your reaction to the point that gender and disability synergistically interact to compound the stigma, prejudice, and discrimination women with disabilities face? (197)
5.	Rhoda Olkin, in her article on Women with Disabilities, lists five myths about disability and sexuality. What are your reactions to those five myths? (198-199)
6.	In Feminist Class Struggle, what is the problem that hooks discusses? What are the past failures of the feminist movement? What is her recommendation? (37-43)
7.	What do you believe it means when Michelle Fine (Coping with rape) states that "psychologists have an obligation to expose the dialectics of psychological control and structural control? (173-174)
8.	Explain how (Coping with rape) "Efforts to fix people and not change structures, many of these options reinforce the recipient's low power position" is an example of the personal is the political. (174)
9.	What did you learn from the Michele Fine Coping With Rape article that is particularly useful or enlightening for you?
10.	What was your reaction to Mary's Pipher's chapter on drugs and alcohol?
11.	In Mary Pipher's chapter on drugs and alcohol, she quotes Robert E. Lee as saying the best message to teach the young is "Deny thyself." What is your reaction to that message?