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Who was Asherah? |
Name means "Living Tree", she was the wife of El. The original sin that discredits female deities were aimed at her. |
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Griswold V. Connecticut |
The Supreme Court ruled that a state's ban of contraceptives was a violation of women's rights. |
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What is Menarche? |
The first menstrual cycle/bleeding of a female. |
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Population Control was based off of what? |
Eugenics and Malthusianism, stated population was not natural and could be manipulated for social experimentation. |
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What is "Game Theory"? |
Assumption that human behavior is of self-interest. A mathematical STRATEGY to figure out the opponent. |
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What is Radical Feminism? |
Fighting against the male control of female sexual behavior, and social structures created by men. Women's oppression provides model for other forms of oppression. |
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According to Socialist Feminism, where does Women's oppression stem from? |
Stems from their work in the family, economy, and class-based capitalism. |
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According to Socialists, in what spheres can women change their status? |
Private sphere (home) and public sphere (work) |
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Which of the following is a demonstration of Katz’s argument that power of the dominant group is not questioned |
Media coverage will use gender neutral terms to discuss mass shootings (since 90% of the perpetrators are male); when you are asked to think of the terms race, gender, and sexual orientation you automatically think of anything other than white, male, and heterosexual. |
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According to Katz, how did the discourse of the Sandy Hook shooting descended into a distracting and false debate? |
Debate between defenders of the gun industry and defenders of the entertainment industry. |
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What were the results of the agricultural revolution? |
Large heavy machinery made women unnecessary in the farming industry Relegated to other roles in society Looked for other works such as servants & prostitution Fueled prejudice of women only being fit to work at home Led to gender wage gap |
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As noted in “Tough Guise”, what was the single most powerful reason prisoners turned toward violence |
They felt shamed, humiliated, or disrespected as men. |
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According to Jackson Katz, Ronald Reagan did or was all of the following: |
He is an important part of project of regression, national masculinization. He rose to political power opposing all the progressive gains of the 1960s and 70s. He led the fight against every major piece of Civil Rights legislation, the Women's movement, the Gay and Lesbian Liberation movements, and the student movement that opposed the war in Vietnam. He also played the role of the rugged cowboy that would save the country. |
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In the video, “Tough Guise”, when and why did the “Western” genre become popular? |
Westerns became popular at the exact moment the frontier was closing, men’s work was moving inside factory walls, and women were organizing a temperance movement to get men out of bars and force them to take responsibility for their families, and also beginning to agitate for the right to vote. |
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What myths illustrate the idea of creation based around women getting transferred to men? |
Pandora’s Box Dionysis Athena Enuma Elish-Tiamat/Marduk Adam and Eve. |
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What were the Issues concerning household and family included in the code of Hammurabi? |
Inheritance Divorce Paternity Sexual behavior. |
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Which of the following is false with respect to the Canaanite goddess Asherah? |
God’s wife also known as Beezlebub (Devil) and seen as bad, everyone uses this word to describe something that must be destroyed. |
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What percentage of the voices in Bible are women? |
1.1% → out of 1426 names mentioned in the Bible, only 111 of them are women. |
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Who did Harry Anslinger have close ties with? |
Timber William Randolph Hearst, Andrew Mellon. |
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The idea that individuals are rational agents is espoused in which of the following ideologies? |
Liberalism |
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What were the reasons for and results of the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914? |
Fear of Chinese seducing white women, mainly affected use and distribution of opium by Chinese immigrants. |
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What is Liberal Feminism? |
Works on integrating women into society that is blocking them from progression, focusing on women being able to show and maintain equality through their own actions and choices. |
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According to Lierre Keith, the main division between liberals and radicals is? |
Individualism: liberals believe society is made up of individuals, radicals believe society is made up of groups. |
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According to Lierre Keith, what pertains to liberals’ perceptions of the nature of social reality? |
Idealist- social reality is made up of attitudes, ideas, and is a mental event. Social change occurs through education, through changing people’s minds. |
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According to Andrea Dworkin, what are the four elements of subordination? |
Hierarchy Objectification Submission Violence |
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In the Second Sex, De Beauvoir argues what? |
The oppression of women throughout history, Women have resigned themselves to their subordinate status, instead of rebelling against, All notions of femininity are artificial concepts. “One is not born a woman, rather, one becomes one”. |
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Aristotle said Women are Defective Men, true or false? |
TRUE. TRUE. FFBGJRFNWLEGTJN MISOGYNISTIC POS ARISTOTLE. |
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What is the Comstock Law of 1873? |
A federal law that made it a crime to sell or distribute materials that could be used for contraception or abortion, to send such materials or information about such materials through the federal mail system, or to import such materials from abroad. |
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According to Michael Kimmel black and white women have what? |
Different perspectives on what a woman experiences, based on privilege. Race is visible to some while invisible to others. Privilege is invisible to those that have it. |
