| Study Questions Number 2 Chrisler. Preface (ix-x) Chrisler. Introduction (xi-xvii) Chrisler. Chapter 1. Sandra Bem. Transforming the debate on sexual inequality: From biological difference to institutionalized androcentrism. (2-15) |
Student Name _______________ Date: 1-23-04 Psychology 358/Women's Studies 358 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph. D. |
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| 1. | Know the definitions of feminist (xi), social construction (xii), the personal is the political (xiii), androcentrism (8-13), and objectified (see notes). |
| 2. | Know the nine common feminist themes in Chrisler. Be able to define each. (xii-xvi) |
| 3. | What evidence and/or examples do Chrisler, Golden, and Rozee provide regarding power disadvantages for women? What evidence does Bem provide regarding power disadvantages for women? (xiii; 8-13) |
| 4. | Why is the focus on biological differences between men and women misguided? Why are women and men both politically and economically unequal? (5-8) |
| 5. | Why is it that males and females continue to play such different--and unequal--roles in even a modern technological society such as our own? (7) |
| 6. | Discuss the Supreme Court's ruling on pregnancy and giving birth. What was the Supreme Court's ruling? Explain how the Supreme Court's ruling is androcentric. How do you feel about that ruling? |
| 7. | Discuss the legal definition of self-defense. What is that definition. Explain how Bem understands that definition to be androcentric. How do you feel about that? (11-12) |
| 8. | Explain what Catharine MacKinnon means when she says that the male difference from women is "affirmatively compensated" by American society. What examples dose she provide? (Chrisler 12) |
| 9. | How would our social world be organized if all the workers and work force were women. What is the lesson of this alternative reality? (12-13) |
| 10. | What are the two related morals from Bem's lecture on Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality? (14) |