| Study Questions Number 6 Chrisler Chapter 5. Diane M. Hall. Feminist Perspectives on the Personal and Political Aspects of Mothering (58-79) Crawford & Unger. Dorothy Allison, A question of class. (58-72) Crawford & Unger. She learns to shout. (73-79) Crawford & Unger. Part 2. The making of a woman. (81-82) Crawford & Unger. The story of my body. (83-90) Pipher 3. Developmental issues--"I'm not waving, I'm drowning" (45-73) |
Name _______________________ Date: 9-20-07 Psychology 258 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph. D. |
| 1. | What is the "motherhood mandate?" (61) |
| 2. | What is the "mommy gap?" What effect does the mommy gap have? In the research on the mommy gap, what alternative explanations have been ruled out? (64-65) |
| 3. | What is the "maternal wall?" The "maternal wall" is triggered by what three factors? What effect does the "maternal wall" have? (65) |
| 4. | What would women need in order to have both careers and families without feeling guilty or feeling as if they are sacrificing in one area for another? (68-70) |
| 5. | What is the second shift? What do you think about that? (71-73) |
| 6. | Ross & Van Willigen (1996) hypothesized that anger related to the working and care for children result in two types of stressors. What are those two types of stressors? (71-73) |
| 7. | Why do you think Dorothy Allison said that the greatest, yet least recognized, dividing line in American society is social class? Do you agree? Explain. (58) |
| 8. | Explain how it is that "class, gender, sexual preference, and prejudice . . . form an intricate lattice that restricts and shapes our lives, and that resistance to hatred is not a simple act." (65) |
| 9. | What lay behind Dorothy's feminist convictions? Explain. (69) |
| 10. | What does Dorothy mean when she says that "There is no all-purpose feminist analysis that explains the complicated ways our sexuality and core identity are shaped, the way we see ourselves as parts of both our birth families and the extended family of friends and lovers we invariably create within the lesbian community? (72) |
| 11. | Describe the cultural conflict that Phoebe Eng was faced with. (77-79) |
| 12. | Phoebe Eng was "squeezed to the hilt." What did that mean and how did that influence the fork in the road? (77-79) |
| 13. | What were the circumstances that led Judith Ortiz Cofer (The Story of My Body) to learn to be invisible? (83-84) |
| 14. | Describe the theme, with some supporting examples, of Pipher's Chapter 3: Development issues: "I'm not waving, I'm drowning." |