Exam #1

Question 1

Who is more likely to be victims of violent crime?

Answer 1

Men

Question 2

Who are more likely to be victimized by an intimate or an acquaintance?

Answer 2

Women

Question 3

Over what percentage of violent victimizations against women were committed by someone known to them?

Answer 3

2/3

Question 4

What is the percentage of women that will experience a rape or an attempted rape in their life time?

Answer 4

1 in 4 or 1 in 3

Question 5

Over what percentage of women will experience violence at the hands of their partner?

Answer 5

50%

Question 6

Loss due to uncontrollable factors related to individual attributes (race, gender, class, religion, disability).

Answer 6

Discrimination

Question 7

Benefits just because of our individual attributes (jobs, housing, shopping without being followed, etc.).

Answer 7

Privilege

Question 8

• Biological sex differences including hormonal differences. (inequality often denied).
• Amplification of biological sex differences.

Answer 8

Traditional Feminist Theory

Question 9

Inequality stems from societal inhibitions on women’s full exposure to:

• intellectual inquiry
• Physical education
• Other activities in the public square.
• Process of gender formation.
• Socialization into gender roles.

Answer 9

Liberal Feminist

Question 10

• Needs or desires of men to control women’s sexuality and reproductive potential.
• Defunding planned parenthood because they fund abortion.

Answer 10

Causes of gender inequality in Radical Feminism

Question 11

A set of social relations in which men (groups and individuals) control private property and women.
- A social, legal, and political climate that values male dominance and hierarchy.

Answer 11

Patriarchy

Question 12

Power relations between men and women structure socialization process in which boys and men view themselves as superior to and have a right to control girls and women.

Answer 12

Process of gender formation

Question 13

• Overthrowing patriarchal relations.
• Devising methods of biological reproduction to permit sexual autonomy.
• Creating women-centered social institutions.
• Eradication of women’s social subordination w/o obliterating gender differences.

Answer 13

Strategies for social change in radical feminism.

Question 14

Flexible combination of radical and Marxist feminism (patriarchy and capitalism combined causes inequality).

Answer 14

Socialist Feminism

Question 15

The ways that women are oppressed through capitalist economic practices and the system of private property.

Answer 15

Marxist Feminism

Question 16

• Women hope that the battering will stop.
• Hope the man they met and fell in love with will return.
• Hope that promises to end the abuse will last.
• Hope that abuser’s relationship with children, family, friends will make a difference.

Answer 16

Learned hopefulness

Question 17

What is the significance of hope of women who are in abusive relationships?

Answer 17

It makes them stay in a relationship because they put effort into it.

Question 18

Contact with CJ system is usually ineffective. Contact with social services usually ineffective.

Answer 18

Learned Helplessness