Assignment Number 2 (revised) |
Student
Name _____________________ Date due: 9-7-06 Psychology 258/Women's Studies 258 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph.D. |
| If this paper is late and you believe it may qualify as an excused absence please explain | __________________________________ |
| The purpose of the written assignments is to prepare students for informed discussion of the key concepts. In order to meet this purpose, written assignments must be prepared before class and brought to class and used in the discussion. |
| Papers turned in late will result in half credit for the written portion of the assignment. If the absence were excused, the student will get full credit. Papers with not all questions answered will result in fractional credit. |
| Papers must be typed, double-spaced on 8-1/2 X 11 paper. In order to make handling papers easy and to ensure that none are misplaced, all papers are expected to be 8-1/2 X 11 inches, stapled, and with no torn, spiral notebook edges |
| Please staple the questions to your answers or write out the questions as well as the answers. Having the questions available in the small group will facilitate discussion. |
| 1. | Crawford & Unger state that students make sense of psychology of women by looking for stories that that capture the realities of living in a gendered world. In what ways did the Mary Whiton Calkins story do that for you? Explain. (5-16) | ||
| 2. | What is the purpose of the book Reviving Ophelia? What is your reaction to the problems that Mary Pipher proposes? Do any of your friends have experiences like these that you would like to describe? If so, please do. | ||
| 3. | What did you learn from the bell hooks introduction? How will you use Feminism is for Everybody in your life? (vii-x) | ||
| 4. | According to bell hooks what is feminism? Are you a feminist in these terms? (1-2) | ||
| 5. | At the end of the chapter, what are bell hooks' recommendations for feminism? Do you agree? (1-6) | ||
| To get the most out of small group discussion, students are encouraged to also discuss answers to study questions assigned for today. By helping each other with these answers, we all learn more. | |||