Some questions in previous semesters have led to good answers but not the central issues that Dr. B. wished to emphasize. The following are four (4) of those questions and the central issues that Dr. B. wishes you to include in your answers. Often you are expected to provide a rationale, context, or explanation in addition to these points. But this way you will know the central point Dr. B. is looking for should any of these four questions be on Test 1.
1.	Why should black female experiences not be romanticized (A Word and a Kindness)? (A5, 33)
	Strength alone does not allow us to circumvent the forces of systemic oppression
2.	How would our social world be organized if all the workers and work force were women (Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality)? What is the lesson of this alternative reality? (SQ3, 12-13)
	"working" would so obviously need to coordinate with both birthing and parenting that institutions facilitating that coordination would be built into the very structure of the social world. There would thus not only be such things as: What are those things?
	Lesson: It is not women's biological or historical role as mothers that is limiting their access to economic and political resources in the U.S.
	It is a social world so androcentric in its organization that it provides but one institutionalized mechanism for coordinating work in the paid labor force with the responsibilities of being a parent
3.	What was it that her family saw as most rebellious about Dorothy Allison? Describe the extent to which you are able to relate to that assertion? (A6, 66)
	it was not my sexuality, my lesbianism, that my family saw as most rebellious . . . It was the way I thought about work, ambition, and self-respect
	I did work like maid's work that they thought was fit only for Black people
4.	Define objectified. (SQ2, notes on the web)
	Using a social constructivist approach, feminist theorists argue that the feminine body is socially constructed. In this way of theorizing, it is understood that the feminine body is constructed to as an object to be looked at, an object of the male gaze and male desire. Thus girls learn to view their own bodies as if they were outside observers. This experience of one's own body as an object to be viewed and evaluated is termed "objectified body consciousness"