| Study Questions
Number 20 Kilmartin Chapter 12 Boys will be Boys. (228-248) Jordan Chapter 11. Building bridges (228-248) |
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Name _____________________ Date: 4-10-08 Psychology of Men 270 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph.D. |
| 1. | Kilmartin described eight (8) violence-inhibiting factors. Name and describe those factors (K 228-230) | ||
| 2. | What does Kilmartin mean when he says that the very fabric of masculinity must change if violence is to be reduced? Explain. (K 229-230) | ||
| 3. | What is the incidence of male violence in the home? (K 231) | ||
| 4. | What is the White Ribbon Campaign? What is its purpose? What are the consequences? (K 230) | ||
| 5. | What is there about the patriarchal tradition that leads some men to believe that physical abuse of women is justified? (K 231-232) | ||
| 6. | What are the characteristics of batterers? (K 232) | ||
| 7. | One of the most striking risk marker of male domestic violence is what? (K 232) | ||
| 8. | What cultural context supports domestic violence? (232-233) | ||
| 9. | What solutions for domestic violence does Kilmartin discuss? Name and describe them. (K 233) | ||
| 10. | Large-scale research studies have revealed what percentage of U.S. women are the victims of actual or attempted rape at some point in their lives? What portion of college men have reported that he has forced a woman to have sexual intercourse against her will on at least one occasion? (K 233-234) | ||
| 11. | Most experts believe that the primary motivation for rape is what? It is the use of sex for what purpose? Groth (1979) referred to rape as a "pseudosexual act." What was meant by "pseudosexual?' Explain. (K 234) | ||
| 12. | What is the evidence that hypermasculine characteristics are connected to sexualized violence? (K 234) | ||
| 13. | What are the seven rape-supporting cultural messages that boys receive as they grow up? Name and describe each. (K 234-239) | ||
| 14. | Many feminist theorists believe that rape is a symptom of economic and political systems in which women have been rendered relatively powerless by men. Explain how such economic and political systems make rape more likely. (K 234-235) | ||
| 15. | Give an example of a cultural ideology that encourages a distortion of heterosexual relations into a rape culture. Give an example of a linguistic construction that encourages a distortion of heterosexual relations into a rape culture. (K 235) | ||
| 16. | In Kilmartin's discussion of rape and masculinity, what is meant by the statement that the 'other' can be experienced as "pure object?" Explain. (K 235) | ||
| 17. | What is the consequence of anger and lust being the only two culturally permissible emotions to be completely out of the man's control? (K 235) | ||
| 18. | What were the consequences of male undergraduates viewing films depicting rape myths? Describe some of the media that depicts these rape myths. (K 235-238) | ||
| 19. | What are the effects of nonviolent erotica? Explain why. What are the effects of violent pornography? Explain why. What are the effects of erotica? Explain why. (K 236-238) | ||
| 20. | Groth (1979) described what three patterns of incarcerated rapists. Name and describe each. (K 239-240) | ||
| 21. | Lisak (1991) reported that rapists scored higher than nonrapists on standardized measures of what? Explain. (K 240) | ||
| 22. | What do street gangs, fraternities, and athletic teams have in common? Explain. (K 241) | ||
| 23. | How is hypermasculinity related to patriarchal culture? Explain. Explain. (K 242) | ||
| 24. | What is wrong with attempts to thwart the potential rapist by rendering environments less conducive to rape, and educating potential victims? Explain. Berkowitz (1997) has suggested what term for educating females and what term for male audiences? Explain why. (K 242) | ||
| 25. | What are the goals of rape prevention efforts? How does this relate to traditional masculinity? (K 243) | ||
| 26. | When men remain silent or "go along with the joke" when their peers make derogatory comments about women, they contribute to a social atmosphere that makes sexual assault possible. What can men do in this situation to reduce the risk of sexual assault? Explain. (K 243) | ||
| 27. | Traumatic psychological experience increased the risk that a male survivor will become a perpetrator under what conditions? How is this explained? (K 246) | ||
| 28. | Explain why Kilmartin concludes that violence is largely centered in the social meanings attached to gender. (K 247) | ||