, Chapter 1 A Feminist Perspective of Women's Health
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
Select the one correct answer to each of the following questions.
• Which of the following best defines the term “gender” as used in this text?
• A person’s sex
• A person’s sex as defined by society
• A societal response to a person’s self-representation as a man or woman
• A person’s biological presentation as defined by himself or herself
• Which factor bears most on women’s health care today?
• The complexity of women’s health
• Women’s status and position in society
• Population growth
• The economy
• Why is acknowledging the oppression of women
moredifficult within Western societies?
• The multiplicity of minority groups complicates the issue.
• The availability of health care makes acknowledgment more difficult.
• The diversity of the news media clouds the issue.
• Affluence and increased opportunities mask oppression.
• Which of the following most accurately defines “oppression” as used in the text?
• Not having a choice
• Not having a voice
• An act of tyranny
• A feeling of being burdened
• In what way does a model of care based on a feminist
perspectivecontrast sharply with a biomedical model?
• It provides a forum for the exploration of gender issues.
• It seeks equal distribution of power within the healthcare interaction.
• It emphasizes women’s rights.
, • It opens new avenues for women’s health care.
• Gender is rooted in and shaped by .
• society, biology
• self-representation, societal expectations
• biology, environment and experience
• biology, hormones
• Women’s health risks, treatments, and approaches are not
alwaysbased in science and biology because
• they are often based on outdated treatments and approaches.
• they are determined by social expectations and gender assumptions.
• they often rely on alternative treatments and approaches.
• scientific research often fails to take women into consideration.
• Reproductive rights were added to the World
HealthOrganization’s human rights framework in the last ?
• 5 years
• 10 years
• 20 years
• 40 years
• “Safe Motherhood” was added to the human rights framework in order to
• address maternal morbidity and mortality on a global level
• meet a legal obligation
• correct an injustice
• correct an oversight
• What is a chief failing of the biomedical model in regards to women’s health care?
• Its reliance on studies comprised exclusively of males
• Its consideration of women as central the model
• Its emphasis on science and medicine
• Its limited definition of “health” as “the absence of disease”
• The social model of health places the focus of health on
• the community.
• the individual.
• environmental conditions.
• scientific research.
• Which question below supports the strategy: “Identify
women’sagency in the midst of social constraint and the biomedical
paradigm.”?
• “Are ‘all women’ the same?”
• “Why do you care about the issue?”
• “Are women really victims or are they acting with agency?”
, • “Who has a choice within the context of health?”
• What had been a significant problem in medical research well into the 1990s?
• The focus on randomized clinical trials over epidemiological investigations
• The lack of representation of women in research trials
• The lack of research related to gynecology
• The focus on randomized clinical trials over observational research
• Gender differences in heart disease can be found in
• diagnosis.
• treatment.
• identification of symptoms.
• all of the above.
• What opportunities are created by applying feminist strategies to gynecologic health?
• Better insight into research methods related to gynecology
• Better access to the populations affected by gynecologic health
• Better understandings from a wellness-oriented, women-centered framework
• Better understandings of the social construction of
genderANSWER KEY Chapter 1
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
• c
• b
• d
• a
• b
• c
• b
• c
• a
• d
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
Select the one correct answer to each of the following questions.
• Which of the following best defines the term “gender” as used in this text?
• A person’s sex
• A person’s sex as defined by society
• A societal response to a person’s self-representation as a man or woman
• A person’s biological presentation as defined by himself or herself
• Which factor bears most on women’s health care today?
• The complexity of women’s health
• Women’s status and position in society
• Population growth
• The economy
• Why is acknowledging the oppression of women
moredifficult within Western societies?
• The multiplicity of minority groups complicates the issue.
• The availability of health care makes acknowledgment more difficult.
• The diversity of the news media clouds the issue.
• Affluence and increased opportunities mask oppression.
• Which of the following most accurately defines “oppression” as used in the text?
• Not having a choice
• Not having a voice
• An act of tyranny
• A feeling of being burdened
• In what way does a model of care based on a feminist
perspectivecontrast sharply with a biomedical model?
• It provides a forum for the exploration of gender issues.
• It seeks equal distribution of power within the healthcare interaction.
• It emphasizes women’s rights.
, • It opens new avenues for women’s health care.
• Gender is rooted in and shaped by .
• society, biology
• self-representation, societal expectations
• biology, environment and experience
• biology, hormones
• Women’s health risks, treatments, and approaches are not
alwaysbased in science and biology because
• they are often based on outdated treatments and approaches.
• they are determined by social expectations and gender assumptions.
• they often rely on alternative treatments and approaches.
• scientific research often fails to take women into consideration.
• Reproductive rights were added to the World
HealthOrganization’s human rights framework in the last ?
• 5 years
• 10 years
• 20 years
• 40 years
• “Safe Motherhood” was added to the human rights framework in order to
• address maternal morbidity and mortality on a global level
• meet a legal obligation
• correct an injustice
• correct an oversight
• What is a chief failing of the biomedical model in regards to women’s health care?
• Its reliance on studies comprised exclusively of males
• Its consideration of women as central the model
• Its emphasis on science and medicine
• Its limited definition of “health” as “the absence of disease”
• The social model of health places the focus of health on
• the community.
• the individual.
• environmental conditions.
• scientific research.
• Which question below supports the strategy: “Identify
women’sagency in the midst of social constraint and the biomedical
paradigm.”?
• “Are ‘all women’ the same?”
• “Why do you care about the issue?”
• “Are women really victims or are they acting with agency?”
, • “Who has a choice within the context of health?”
• What had been a significant problem in medical research well into the 1990s?
• The focus on randomized clinical trials over epidemiological investigations
• The lack of representation of women in research trials
• The lack of research related to gynecology
• The focus on randomized clinical trials over observational research
• Gender differences in heart disease can be found in
• diagnosis.
• treatment.
• identification of symptoms.
• all of the above.
• What opportunities are created by applying feminist strategies to gynecologic health?
• Better insight into research methods related to gynecology
• Better access to the populations affected by gynecologic health
• Better understandings from a wellness-oriented, women-centered framework
• Better understandings of the social construction of
genderANSWER KEY Chapter 1
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
• c
• b
• d
• a
• b
• c
• b
• c
• a
• d
