Study Questions Number 14 Chrisler 13. The health risks of being Black, Latina, Woman, and/or Poor. (204-219) Crawford & Unger. Mistsuye Yamanda, Invisibility is an unnatural disaster.(180-184) Crawford & Unger. Sherry Gorelick. The gender trap. (185-189) Pipher 11. Sex and violence. (203-231) hooks 8. Global feminism. (44-47)

Student Name ______________ Date: 10-25-07 Psychology 358 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph. D.

1.	Traditional experimental psychology conducts experiments in the search of general principles. Our language and culture, too, characterizes people and events in universal terms. Feminist psychology emphasizes the context and particulartness of the experience of people. Consequently, Lisa Bowleg begins her chapter by asking "which women are encompassed by the term 'women's health?'" How is the question which women answered? (C 205 and 216)
2.	Define ecosocial theory. What is it's purpose? Explain how ecosocial theory can explain the notion that women literally "embody" sexism, racism, heterosexism, classism, and other forms of social inequality. (C 206)
3.	What are the two themes of Lisa Bowleg's chapter on "The health risks of being Black, Latina, Woman, and/or poor? (C 207)
4.	Multicultural perspectives reveal only part of the story of women's health? What is missing? Explain. (C 209)
5.	Feminist scholars rightly caution that condom use is a gender issue. Explain. (C 210)
6.	Explain why individual health promotion behaviors are not readily accessible for every woman. A prism of what helps us see the oppressive processes? (C 211-216)
7.	What does it mean to say that a social structural analysis is useful in examining some of the gender differences in stress? Using the lens of structural analysis in this case reveals what? (211-216)
8.	What is meant by the term "multiple stigmatized social identities? Give an example. (C 215)
9.	What three (3) structural strategies did Lisa Bowleg identify that could vastly improve women's wellness? (216-217)
10.	Why were white students offended by the militant tone of outspoken Asian American writers, but not offended by the militant tone of Black and Chicano writers? Why did administrators believe that someone must have pushed Mitsuye Yamada into filing the grievance? (C&U 180-181)
11.	How will Mitsuye Yamada's new awareness (Invisibility is an unnatural disaster) change her behavior? (C&U 183-184)
12.	According to Pipher, girls face what two major sexual issues in America in the 1990s? (P 205)
13.	Pipher said the rape is a personal problem that cries out for a political solution. What does she mean? (P 290)
14.	Pipher stated that rape hurts us all, not just the victims. What does she mean? (P 290)
15.	What does hooks (Global feminism) mean when she says that white supremacist capitalist patriarchal Western culture neocolonial thinking sets the tone for many cultural practices? What are those cultural practices? (h 44-45)
16.	In what ways have so many women (of all races) appropriated feminist jargon (hooks, Global feminism) while sustaining their commitment to Western imperialism and transnational capitalism? Explain. (h 45)