PHI 208

PHI 208 Week 5 Quiz Question 1 According to Caroline Heldman, which of the following is a question that applies to her sexual object test? Does the image show people having sex? Does the image display a full image of a woman? Does the image show a person as something that can be bought or sold? Does the image display violence against people in the image? Question 2 According to Colin Stokes, in which film are all the heroic, wise, and villainous characters female? The Wizard of Oz The Little Mermaid Star Wars Les Miserables Question 3 In the video “Sexism in the News Media 2012” what is it that some newscasters blame military women for? being killed in combat not being able to have children being raped being war heroes Question 4 According to Virginia Held from “Feminist Transformation of Moral Theory”, which of the following have been aligned with femininity in the history of Western thought? emotion weakness passion all of the above Question 5 What does Noddings say about women’s feelings about the death of the body, according to the article “Maternal Ethics”? Correct! Women know the preciousness of the body because they create them and care for them Women, more than anyone, just want to know that the soul of their child has gone to heaven Women are happy not to have to deal with the messiness of dead bodies Men tend to be more sensitive to the death of the body since they are the ones that have to risk their own lives in war Question 6 What does Nel Noddings have to say about essentialism about gender, according to the article “Maternal Ethics”? Correct! It is problematic because it has been associated with creation and because it has always favored males over females It is the clearly false view that men and women have essences It wrongly assumes that God could not have made us in ways that were contrary to our ‘essential nature’ Culture is irrelevant; all of our behaviors are innate Question 7 Feminist ethics is based around which of the following ideas, according to Virginia Held in “Feminist Transformation of Moral Theory”? That abstract universal principles can be applied to most situations to find the best action. That emotions can be cultivated and ought to be taken into account in ethical theory. That maximizing something like happiness or pleasure is the best way to guide action. That all humans are autonomous individuals who battle for resources. Question 8 According to Caroline Heldman, what is one way that men can contribute to overcoming the sexual objectification of women? they can be kind to women they can tell women that they are attractive they can stop evaluating women based on their looks they can stop seeking attention Question 9 According to Caroline Heldman, what product was pulled from Abercrombie and Fitch stores based on protests through a blog? padded swimsuit tops for toddlers lingerie deep V-neck t-shirts yoga pants Question 10 In Carol Gilligan’s example from In a Different Voice, the child named Amy focuses on which aspect of the Heinz dilemma? the relationships involved in the dilemma the logical nature of the problem a utilitarian calculus that weighs the options Kohlberg’s theory of moral development Question 11 How have historians tended to treat typically male tendencies versus typically female tendencies, according to Nel Noddings in the article “Maternal Ethics”? Historians value female tendencies more highly because it is childbearing and childrearing that enable the group to survive Correct! Male tendencies, like mathematics, warfare, and even singing have been prized more highly by historians Historians have generally paid equal regard to both kinds of tendency. Historians value female tendencies more highly because most historians have themselves been female Question 12 In the excerpt from In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan claims that females tend to see relationships as which of these? hierarchies rules Correct! webs duties Question 13 In “Feminist Transformation of Moral Theory”, Virginia Held claims that which abstract concept has guided the development of Western ethics? The feminist woman The child of love The man of reason The mother of care Question 14 According to Colin Stokes, which of the following are questions in the Bechdel test? Is there more than one female character? Do they speak to each other? When they speak to each other, do they talk about something other than a man?Correct! all of the above Question 15 According to Nel Noddings’s “Maternal Ethics”, psychiatric studies have revealed which of the following about the relationship between criminal violence and childhood abuse? Criminal violence follows childhood abuse equally in males and females When criminal violence follows childhood abuse it is almost always in males Women are more likely to commit criminal violence if the childhood abuse was at a younger age No correlation has been found at all between criminal violence and childhood abuse Question 16 What does Nel Noddings say about rates of violent crime among men and women, according to the article “Maternal Ethics”? Women commit nearly as much crime as men do; gender differences here are illusory Men commit far fewer violent crimes than women; our ignorance of this is due to the influence of media. There has never been a proven case of a woman committing a violent crime; all such crimes have been committed by men. Correct! By nature men are generally much more violence prone than women Question 17 According to Virginia Held’s article “Feminist Transformation of Moral Theory”, a thinker named Annette Baier claims that the history of Western ethical thought does not take into account feminine aspects because: The great moral theorists were often loving husbands. The great moral theorists hated women. The great moral theorists were men who had little intimate interaction with women. Oh, those great moral theorists! Question 18 What does Noddings say about male versus female language when opposing war in the article “Maternal Ethics”? Men are more likely to speak in the abstract about violence; women are more likely to refer to their own hands on experience in helping victims of violence Women are more likely to become emotional rather than rational when discussing such matters Women and men use approximately the same types of language when discussing the horror of death Women feel that language is irrelevant; it is actions that count Question 19 According to the video “Prostitutes of God”, what is the name of the female goddess to which young girls are dedicated and then forced into prostitution in India? Yellamma Vishnu Krishna Lakshmi Question 20 According to the video “Prostitutes of God”, what is the name for prostitutes in India who have been dedicated to a female goddess? Devadasi Hindus Hiermala Sangli