Exam Prep Women And The Law Ch.12 5th Edition

CHAPTER 12

WOMEN AND THE LAW

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. What is a set of theories and strategies for social change that takes gender as its central focus in attempting to understand social institutions, processes, and relationships?

a. social change

b. religious policy

c. patriarchy

d. feminism

2. What is the practice of examining and evaluating the law from a feminist perspective?

a. feminist legal theory

b. feminist legal genderism

c. feminist jurisprudence

d. both a and c

3. What term literally means "rule of the father"?

a. patriarchy

b. anti-feminism

c. gender inequality

d. disingendering

4. What occupies the same despised place among most feminist scholars that capitalism occupies among Marxists?

a. injustice

b. inequality

c. patriarchy

d. anti-feminism

5. _____________ is split by two major debates: the reformist/radical and the sameness/difference debates.

a. feminism

b. patriarchy

c. law

d. feminist jurisprudence

6. What type of feminists accused their counterparts of trying to replicate pre-feminist protectionist arguments?

a. sameness

b. difference

c. radical

d. reformist

7. What type of feminists accused their counterparts of being blind to obvious biological differences and to the plight of women who suffer the consequences of those differences?

a. radical

b. sameness

c. reformist

d. difference

8. Misogyny is the _______________ of women.

a. hatred

b. devaluation

c. ridicule

d. all of the above

9. Which of the following influential thinkers thought of women as the body and men as the soul?

a. Homer

b. Cicero

c. Hobbes

d. Plato

10. Which ancient Greek city, because of its emphasis on breeding, did women have more public lives, and property was communally owned?

a. Corinth

b. Delphi

c. Sparta

d. Athens

11. Which prominent Roman politician wrote that women were to be excluded from the most important sacrifices and rites?

a. Cicero

b. Caligula

c. Augustus

d. Nero

12. In the medieval European feudal system, women were:

a. seen as naturally more intelligent than men

b. regarded as the appropriate leaders of armies in war

c. viewed as more adept in political matters than men

d. subordinate and homebound

13. Female _____________ to their husbands in everything is ordered in the Bible.

a. intractability

b. resistance

c. submission

d. education

14. During which time period were women not to be involved in the world outside the home, not because they were evil but because the world was evil?

a. Renaissance

b. Tudor England

c. Elizabethan Period

d. Middle Ages

15. The sixteenth-century Reformation and the emergence of Protestantism reinforced:

a. patriarchal sexism

b. domestic patriarchy

c. latent sexism

d. domestic sexism

16. Which philosopher demanded equality for all men, but expressly denied it for women?

a. John Locke

b. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

c. Thomas Hobbes

d. Aristotle

17. Which early feminist writer argued that we cannot know what the natural abilities of women to reason are until they are taught the same things as men?

a. John Stuart Mill

b. Betty Friedan

c. Gloria Steinem

d. Mary Wollstonecraft

18. Mary Wollstonecraft argued that if girls were allowed to mature mentally as boys were, we would find as much _____________ among them as we do among men.

a. intellect and reason

b. sensibility and reason

c. beauty and intellect

d. beauty and sensibility

19. Despite the Fourteenth Amendment's declaration, women appear to have not been included in the definition of "_____________" for the purposes of allowing them their rights.

a. person

b. state

c. man

d. society

20. The conception of common law that formed the basis for the U.S. system of jurisprudence decreed that adult women were not allowed to be fully _____________ adults.

a. functioning

b. political

c. property owning

d. participatory

21. Under the system of _____________ a married woman had no legal rights or obligations separate from those of her husband, and her whole existence was merged into that of her husband.

a. marriage

b. common law marriage

c. coverture

d. marriage servitude

22. Colorado gave women the right to vote in which year?

a. 1854

b. 1869

c. 1870

d. 1893

23. Suzan B. Anthony was not punished for illegally voting in 1872 due to the concern that should she spend any time in jail, she could appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court using a writ of:

a. mandamus

b. habeas corpus

c. mancorpus

d. certiorari

24. In 1902, Elizabeth Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Carrie Chapman Catt organized a(n) _______________ Conference in Washington, D.C.?

a. International Woman Suffrage

b. Federal Female Suffrage

c. International Female Suffrage

d. Federal Woman Suffrage

25. The major achievement of the 1904 International Woman Suffrage Conference was the establishment of the:

a. World Suffrage Alliance

b. World Woman Suffrage Alliance

c. International Suffrage Alliance

d. International Woman Suffrage Alliance

26. The passage of which amendment was the first and only time that the U.S. Constitution explicitly recognized that there was another sex-women?

a. Eighteenth

b. Nineteenth

c. Twentieth

d. Twenty-First

27. If a woman maintains her "place," marries, and is obedient, then she is a:

a. whore

b. Madonna

c. Jezebel

d. Delilah

28. Women thought to be _______________ were subject to rape, persecution, and harassment.

a. Delilahs

b. whores

c. Jezebels

d. Madonnas

29. Which militant humanist activist for women's suffrage in the nineteenth century was one of the first individuals to campaign for the separation of church and state?

a. Esther Morris

b. Charlotte Ray

c. Matilda Joslyn Gage

d. Arabella Mansfield

30. Laws against rape and the beating of women and girls historically have been more focused on the _______________ of male owners than on the suffering of the female victims.

a. familial rights

b. property rights

c. harm rights

d. consent rights

31. According to Brownmiller (1975), when women were raped, it was not the woman who was legally recognized as suffering a loss but her:

a. family

b. owner

c. parents

d. all of the above

32. Under early laws, if a woman was not a virgin, then male rape concerns revolved less around "property damage" and more about her supposed _____________ surrounding the crime.

a. marital status

b. behavior

c. property status

d. none of the above

33. Under which ancient legal code might a raped married woman be drowned along with her attacker if her husband no longer wanted her?

a. Code of Hammurabi

b. Law of Moses

c. Twelve Tables

d. Tang Code

34. Early American common law recognized the _____________, which stated that a man had a right to beat his wife as long as the stick he used was no bigger in circumference than his thumb?

a. rule of violence

b. rule of allowance

c. rule of punishment

d. rule of thumb

35. Under early English common law, if a wife killed her husband, the seriousness of the crime was elevated to that of _____________ (albeit only a 'little'), for which the punishment was burning at the stake.

a. murder

b. treason

c. manslaughter

d. reckless homicide

36. Under _______________ law, a woman who was raped may also face charges of adultery, for which she may be stoned to death if she is married?

a. Chinese

b. Islamic

c. French

d. German

37. Unlike other immutable characteristics, _______________ has not been considered a suspect classification.

a. national origin

b. race

c. gender

d. religion

38. In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court defined sex/gender as a _______________ classification.

a. non-suspect

b. suspect

c. quasi-suspect

d. strict scrutiny

39. In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court uphold the Immigration and Naturalization Service's (INS) practice of making it easier for foreign-born children of female U.S. citizens to acquire American citizenship than for foreign-born children of male U.S. citizens?

a. Reed v. Reed

b. Nguyen v. INS

c. Minor v. Happersett

d. State v. Rhodes

40. Which wave of the feminist movement focused on other basic rights and liberties, such as property, educational and employment opportunities, and "outing" male violence against women and children?

a. first

b. second

c. third

d. modern

41. Because of the shortage of women and labor during the early _______________ period, free white women were afforded rights to own and dispose of their own property and to operate a business.

a. Elizabethan

b. colonial

c. Revolutionary

d. Industrial Revolution

42. What international treaty guarantees women the same kinds of rights (and then some) that feminists of both genders have been striving to introduce in the United States?

a. UNAFCDW

b. UNDFAW

c. UNCEFDW

d. UNFCDEW

43. What is a problem disproportionately affecting women that has only relatively recently been addressed by law?

a. homicide

b. sexual abuse

c. rape

d. domestic violence

44. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is overwhelmingly committed by:

a. males against males

b. males against females

c. females against females

d. females against males

45. Evidence from around the world indicates that intimate partner violence (IPV) is driven primarily by:

a. male sexual jealousy

b. male impotence

c. suspicion of infidelity

d. both a and c

46. Competitively disadvantaged males may turn to _______________ tactics to prevent their partner's defection.

a. physically manipulative

b. emotionally manipulative

c. violently emotional

d. violently coercive

47. Which of the following tactics have been implemented by the law against domestic violence?

a. mandatory arrest

b. mandatory cooling-off period for abusers

c. no-drop prosecution

d. both a and c

48. In regard to their early exclusion from legal practice, women were viewed as lacking in the requisite _______________ and as overly subjective and emotional

a. legal capacity

b. rational education

c. educational capacity

d. logical capacity

49. A number of states have conducted studies which indicate that in actuality men and women receive _____________ treatment in court.

a. the same

b. differential

c. similar

d. preferential

50. According to the text, the law is _______________ (male centered), so efforts to decide issues affecting females as victims of males are likely to be stymied by the male view of what women are or should be.

a. androcentric

b. andronichal

c. patronichal

d. patrocentric

TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS

1. UNCEFDW stands for the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Wives.
2. Patriarchy is a set of theories and strategies for social change.
3. Feminist legal theory is the practice of examining and evaluating law from a male perspective.
4. Patriarchy literally means “rule of the father”.
5. Feminist jurisprudence is split by 3 major debates.
6. Early Greek society was somewhat ambivalent about the status of women.
7. Pandora’s box is a Roman myth.
8. Cicero is a prominent Greek politician who lived in the first century BCE.
9. The myth of Pandora’s box provide an underpinning for misogyny.
10. Renaissance writers in the fifteenth century saw women as more virtuous and less worldly than men.
11. In the medieval European feudal system, women were subordinate and homebound.
12. The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau demanded equality for all women.
13. Under the system of coverture, a married couple become one person, that is, the man.
14. The first case relating to women’s voting rights was Minor v. Happersett (1874).
15. Historically, laws against rape and the beating of women/girls were focused on the suffering of the female victims.
16. Women were given the right to vote in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
17. Under the rational basis test standard of review, state actions are presumed to be invalid.
18. The right to work as an inalienable right of all human beings in not including in the UNCEFDW.
19. Domestic violence only refers to physical and sexual abusive acts.
20. Domestic violence is most prevalent among competitively disadvantaged females.
21. ERA stands for Equal Rights Amendment.
22. The Violence Against Women Act was passed in 1996.
23. Women’s admittance into the legal profession has been fraught with struggle and hardship.
24. Few women were admitted to the study of law and to the bar in the 1800s.
25. By the 1970’s women were finally being admitted to law schools.
26. Today, men outperform women in the undergraduate grade point average.
27. In cases of domestic violence, the California Task Force found that a minority of male courtroom personnel thought that claims of abuse of female victims were “exaggerated”.
28. Historically, the law in androcentric.
29. Feminist scholars split primarily along reformist/radical and sameness/difference lines.
30. History tells us that the abuse of women and girls arises out of a perception of their inferiority as human beings.

ESSAY QUESTIONS

1. Define patriarchy. How has patriarchy impacted women?
2. Discuss the feelings of the Founding Fathers toward women.
3. Discuss the events in the United States leading up to women receiving the right to vote.
4. Discuss how domestic violence has impacted women.
5. In the textbook, Stohr asks the reader to imagine a world where one gender holds the vast majority of power, provide two of her examples and explain the point of the passage.