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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The Price's use all of the following accommodations to a feminist lifestyle except which of the following?
2. ***Poet Robert Bly speaks to mostly all-male audiences about healthier views of masculinity in the time of all of the following EXCEPT:
3. Which researcher finds no statistically significant difference in how the sexes reason morally in nineteen Kohlberg studies?
4. George Gilder writes that family is the ______________ so males denied this are apt to________________.
5. Faludi identified which of the following books as the most widely quoted and influential feminist work in the 1980s?
Short Essay Questions
1. In their advice manuals, Smart Women/Foolish Choices and Women Men Love/Women Men Leave, Melvin Kinder and Connell Cowan provide advice that is harmful to women. Give some examples of this advice and why it is harmful to women?
2. How does Sylvia Ann Hewlett attack and affect the ERA?
3. When Faludi writes that New Right women are less "trapped in the backlash eddies," what does she mean?
4. Describe the ways in which Poet Robert Bly affects the feminist movement.
5. The media is highlighted as a field in which women see some of the worst progress. What evidence does Faludi use to support her claim?
6. The feminist movement gained support and momentum in 1984 when Representative Geraldine Ferraro was nominated for vice-president on the Democratic ticket. Four years later, however, female candidates running for office are at record lows and they do not win most of the races for which they run. What is the explanation for this vast shift over a four-year period?
7. According to Faludi, why are men like John Willke and Randall Terry engaged in the fight against abortion.
8. Michael Levin and his wife Margarita Levin are highlighted as examples of a couple who espouse anti-feminist views while benefiting from feminist thoughts and perspectives. In what ways does Faludi believe this is seen in their lives?
9. Discuss at least two of the implications of the fetal protection movement.
10. Summarize the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. battle with the EEOC?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the gender disparity in the women's clothing industry. Why are men the majority of the well-known designers? In addition, why are women less likely to be in this field?
Essay Topic 2
Faludi writes that Murphy Brown and Roseanne are two characters who are attacked by the backlash. Is this an accurate accusation? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Throughout the book, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Faludi highlights research studies and books that use flawed data collection, methods of analysis, or interpretations. Three of such studies were the Harvard-Yale marriage study, the work of Dr. Srully Blotnick, and Lenore Weitzman's 1985 book, The Divorce Revolution. Describe the role each of these works played in subverting the fight for women's rights. Highlight two or three examples from each of the three publications.
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