Study Questions Number 9 Chrisler Chapter 8. Women, weight, and body image. (116-135) Crawford & Unger. I'm not fat, I'm Latina. (117-118) Crawford & Unger. Illness and imagery. (119-130) Crawford & Unger. The other body. (131-135) Pipher 6. Fathers. (115-130) hooks 3. Sisterhood is powerful. (13-18)

Name ____________ Date: 2-21-08 Psychology 258 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph. D.

1.	What is your reaction to the creation of a psychiatric diagnostic category for body dysmorphic disorder? (C 121-122)
2.	What meanings might a thin body represent? (C 122-129)
3.	What might it tell us that a thin, restrictive beauty ideal was dominate at times of the three waves of feminism? (C 123-125)
4.	How can women be convinced that this ideal of childlike thinness is desirable and attainable? (C 125-129)
5.	What is "objectification theory?" What is your reaction to the idea of an "objectification theory? (C 126)
6.	What is the principal focus of the material from Reach to Recovery? The woman who has had a mastectomy is overwhelmed by what message? (C&U 121)
7.	Why is it that breast cancer is not a solitary ordeal? Explain. (C&U 127)
8.	What is a nonconscious ideology? What power does it have? In what way was nonconscious ideology evident in the Illness and Imagery article? (C&U 128-129)
9.	The reaction to meeting the handicapped is a form of objectification. Explain why. (C&U 132)
10.	How was Ynestra King's experience in "The Other Body, " an experience of "other?" Please explain. (C&U 133)
11.	How are the disabled marginalized? (C&U 135)
12.	Why did a large body of women abandon the notion of sisterhood? What does hooks recommend? Why? (h 16-17)