| Study Questions Number 6 Chrisler Chapter 5. Sweating it out.(56-74) Crawford & Unger. Dorothy Allison, A question of class. (58-72) Crawford & Unger. She learns to shout. (73-79) Crawford & Unger. Part 2. The making of a woman. (81-82) Crawford & Unger. The story of my body. (83-90) Pipher 3. Developmental issues--"I'm not waving, I'm drowning" (45-73) |
Name _______________________ Date: 2-10-05 Psychology 358 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph. D. |
| 1. | What is the good news and what is the bad news about women and sport? (56-58) |
| 2. | What is the impact of socialization of girls and women? (64-65) |
| 3. | How does the media treat women in sports? (60-63) |
| 4. | What does Ruth Hall recommend that we need to do for women and sport? (70-71) |
| 5. | Why do you think Dorothy Allison said that the greatest, yet least recognized, dividing line in American society is social class? Do you agree? Explain. (58) |
| 6. | Explain how it is that "class, gender, sexual preference, and prejudice . . . form an intricate lattice that restricts and shapes our lives, and that resistance to hatred is not a simple act." (65) |
| 7. | What lay behind Dorothy's feminist convictions? Explain. (69) |
| 8. | What does Dorothy mean when she says that "There is no all-purpose feminist analysis that explains the complicated ways our sexuality and core identity are shaped, the way we see ourselves as parts of both our birth families and the extended family of friends and lovers we invariably create within the lesbian community? (72) |
| 9. | Describe the cultural conflict that Phoebe Eng was faced with. (77-79) |
| 10. | Phoebe Eng was "squeezed to the hilt." What did that mean and how did that influence the fork in the road? (77-79) |
| 11. | What were the circumstances that led Judith Ortiz Cofer (The Story of My Body) to learn to be invisible? (83-84) |
| 12. | What was "The Story of My Body" about? (83-90) |
| 13. | Describe the theme, with some supporting examples, of Pipher's Chapter 3: Development issues: "I'm not waving, I'm drowning." |