| Study Questions Number 23 Chrisler Chapter 22. Geraldine B. Stahly, Battered women: Why don't they just leave? (356-375) Crawford & Unger. Tali Edut, with Dyann Logwood and Ophira Edut, HUES magazine: The making of a movement. (294-305) hooks 17. To love again: The heart of feminism. (100-104) |
Name _____________________ Date: 12-4-07 Psychology 358 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph.D. |
| 1. | How much of a problem is violence against women? Explain. What effect does this violence have on children? (357) |
| 2. | What effect does this violence have on children? On children after they have grown up? (357-358) |
| 3. | What is the subculture-of-violence hypothesis? What is the status of the subculture-of-violence hypothesis? The social perception that violence is "normative" only for certain stigmatized groups had what effects? (360) |
| 4. | How does Freudian theory treat battered women? What is the feminist critique of Freudian theory in this regard? (361) |
| 5. | How does Family Systems Theory treat battered women? What is the feminist critique of Family Systems Theory in this regard? (361-362) |
| 6. | How does "coresponsibility and "codependency" theory treat battered women? What is the feminist critique of "coresponsibility and "codependency" theory? (361-362) |
| 7. | According to feminist theories about the causes of battered women, intimate relationships are based on a value structure. What is that value structure? How does it relate to patriarchy? What are the consequences? (362-363) |
| 8. | The classic work of Lenore Walker (1979) gave the first detailed analysis of the psychosocial forces that may trap a woman in a battering relationship. Describe that theory and each of its components. (363-365) |
| 9. | Explain how Learned Helplessness theory applies to battered women. (365-366) |
| 10. | Explain what happens when individuals find their survival depends on placating a violent, hostile, unpredictable aggressor. (366-367) |
| 11. | Describe what happens to self esteem and self-confidence in situations of battered women. (367-368) |
| 12. | What affect does a woman's passive and dependent behavior have on her batterer? (368-369) |
| 13. | What happens when the battered woman leaves? Explain. (369-371) |
| 14. | What was the vision of sisterhood underlying HUES? (294-305) |
| 15. | According to hooks, love in a patriarchal culture is linked to what? (101) |
| 16. | In "To Love Again," hooks says that the heartbeat of our alternative vision is still a fundamental and necessary truth. What is that fundamental necessary truth? (103) |