Study Questions Number 2 Chrisler. Introduction (viii-xiv) Chrisler. Chapter 1. Sandra Bem. Transforming the debate on sexual inequality: From biological difference to institutionalized androcentrism. (2-15) Crawford & Unger. About the Editors (vi) Crawford & Unger. Preface. (ix-xii) Crawford & Unger. Part 1. Making our voices heard. (1-3) Crawford &Unger. Mary Whiton Calkins (5-16)	Student Name _______________ Date: 9-5-08 Psychology 258/Women's Studies 258 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph. D.
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1.	Know the definitions of feminist (viii-ix), social construction (ix), the personal is the political (x-xi), androcentrism (8-13), and objectified (see notes).
2.	Know the nine common feminist themes in Chrisler. Be able to define each. (ix-xiv)
3.	What evidence and/or examples do Chrisler, Golden, and Rozee provide regarding power disadvantages for women? What evidence does Bem provide regarding power disadvantages for women? (x; 8-13)
4.	Why is the focus on biological differences between men and women misguided? Why are women and men both politically and economically unequal? (5-8)
5.	What three (3) reasons does Sandra Bem give for discounting female and male differences in a job setting? What is your reaction? (7-8)
6.	Why is it that males and females continue to play such different--and unequal--roles in even a modern technological society such as our own? (7)
7.	How does Sandra Bem define androcentrism? What are some of the ways that Bem suggests this privileging can be described? What is your reaction? (8-10)
8.	Discuss the Supreme Court's ruling on pregnancy and giving birth. What was the Supreme Court's ruling? Explain how the Supreme Court's ruling is androcentric. How do you feel about that ruling? (10-11)
9.	The U.S. Supreme Court has said that it is okay for an employer to offer insurance that that will cover you for every medical condition that keeps you away from work, except pregnancy and giving birth. "But why is it okay to exclude pregnancy if discrimination against women is now illegal?" Bem completes the articulation of the Court's reasoning by indicating that the Court's claim of "gender neutrality" is argued in three (3) different ways. What are those three different ways? Does that make sense to you? Why?
10.	Discuss the legal definition of self-defense. What is that definition. Explain how Bem understands that definition to be androcentric. How do you feel about that? (11-12)
11.	Another example of an androcentric law is the culture's legal definition of self-defense. What is the "aha" experience following analysis by feminist legal scholars? What is your reaction to that? (11-12)
12.	What point is Sandra Bem making when she says that explicit discrimination against women is so thoroughly organized around a worker that it transforms what is intrinsically just a male-female difference into a massive female disadvantage? What do you think about that? (12)
13.	Explain what Catharine MacKinnon means when she says that the male difference from women is "affirmatively compensated" by American society. What examples does she provide? (Chrisler 12)
14.	How would our social world be organized if all the workers and work force were women. What is the lesson of this alternative reality? (12-13)
15.	What are the two related morals from Bem's lecture on Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality? (14)