Questions for October 20

from WIAS
  1. Describe 2 ways in which the government can be seen as the authoritarian allocator of values.
  2. When was the U.S. Constitution first used to stop discrimination against women?
  3. Explain 2 ways in which the transformation from a patriarchal to a democratic system happened more quickly for men than for women.
  4. Discuss the Married Women's Property Acts.
  5. Briefly discuss the history of women's citizenship in the U.S.
  6. Outline U.S. women's history of participation on juries.
  7. When and why was there a turning point in thinking about women in the U.S. military?
  8. Describe the connection between Tailhook and the Gulf War.
  9. According to Sapiro, what are 2 of the most underreported crimes?
  10. Discuss the main differences between men's and women's prisons as described by Sapiro.
  11. According to Sapiro, how can female law agents be more helpful than male ones?
  12. Discuss the 3 early gender differences in U.S. voting patterns.
  13. List the 3 reasons political scientists often cite for why there are so few female political candidates. Then, deconstruct each of these reasons using the research cited by Sapiro.
  14. Discuss the "structural opportunities" often required in order for women candidates to be successful in their political campaigns.
  15. How important and significant are gender differences on most political issues?
from FTMC
  1. How has power commonly been defined? How have some feminists tried to redefine power?
  2. What was the difference between the power wielded by reformists and revolutionists?
  3. Discuss essentialism with regards to power and the feminist conception that women need more of it.
  4. Why did Kollias, cited by hooks, want bourgeois women to take lower and working class women as their role models?
  5. Why didn't lower and working class women become role models for borgeois women?
  6. List and describe the 4 powers of the weak.
from FT
  1. Explain how males can be the victims of rapes where women are the ones who are raped, as described by Brownmiller.
  2. Discuss the sexist discrimination against men that has existed in rape laws.
  3. In the Brownmiller article, how is rape compared to robbery?
  4. Why does the Combahee River Collective feel that a separate Black women's movement is necessary?
  5. Do the members of the Combahee River Collective generally fall on the side of essentialism or against it?
  6. Lorde argues that difference doesn't separate us. Then what does?
  7. Discuss the argument that Lorde has with Virginia Woolf.
  8. Why isn't it the job of the oppressed to teach the oppressors of their wrongdoing?
  9. Why can't the master's tools dismantle the master's house?
  10. Discuss the difference between personal identification and positional identification. What bearing does this have on Chodorow's discussion of gender identification?
  11. What is the main way for male children to learn what it is to be masculine, whether or not there is a male father figure available to the child?
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