Proposition and branding Test Questions & Answers Chapter 6

Chapter 6

TEST BANK (20 ITEMS)

Multiple Choice and Recall

1. Violence against women is a:

a. major health problem

b. violation of women’s human rights

c. both “a” and “b”

d. neither “a” nor “b”

2. Though intimate partner violence, rape, sexual harassment, and child sexual abuse are crimes in the United States, the data are difficult to be accurate because of:

a. unclear discrepancies in definition and terminology

b. biased research

c. occasional reporting

d. none of the above

3. Regarding teen women and intimate partner violence, the Centers for Disease Control (2017) reported:

a. approximately 23 percent of teen women have experienced physical, emotional, or verbal abuse from a dating partner before the age of 18

b. their partners may use criticism, intimidation, threats, or force to establish and maintain control over them

c. cell phones and social media have greatly increased the [mutual] use of informal “surveillance”

d. all of the above

4. The incidence of rape or sexual assault, whether through physical force or incapacitation due to alcohol or drugs, is highest among:

a. undergraduate women

b. students who identify as transgender, genderqueer, nonconforming, and question

c. both “a” and “b”

d. neither “a” nor “b”

5. Perpetrators of sexualized violence cultivates _____ in order to escape culpability.

a. an environment of secrecy and silence

b. an impressive array of arguments

c. an arsenal of denials, victim-blaming, and readiness to forget the past and move on

d. all of the above

6. Morales narrates that her perpetrators manipulated her to make her:

a. into an accomplice to her own self-degradation

b. complicit in the degradation of others

c. both “a” and “b”

d. neither “a” nor “b”

7. Morales’s reclamation of herself entails allowing her _____ to be healed.

a. abused sexuality

b. wounded erotic

c. both “a” and “b”

d. neither “a” nor “b”

8. For Morales, healing and restoration entailed:

a. the micro right to experience fulfillment

b. the meso refusal to remain crushed or colonized by defeat

c. the macro perspective on rejecting all forms of progress

d. none of the above

9. Brown calls attention to:

a. colonial oppression of Indigenous peoples

b. missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada and the US

c. First Nations’ indifference

d. people’s rights and respects

10. Brown reminds readers of a _____ problem of political indifference to disappearing Indigenous women.

a. 500-year old

b. heteropatriarchal, political

c. both “a” and “b”

d. neither “a” nor “b”

11. Brown’s advocacy is for the Savanna’s Act introduced in October 2017 by US Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, which if passed will:

a. make data collection efficient and adequately referential

b. allow a workable plan to be implemented

c. require the government to be accountable vis-à-vis statistical reports

d. all of the above

12. Henry and Powell identify some inherent problems associated with the lack of oversight and policing associated with digital technologies as:

a. sexual violence and harassment

b. cyberbullying of women

c. intimate partner cyberstalking

d. all of the above

13. Henry and Powell cite women in Australia and the UK aged _____ as the ones more likely to have been victims of cyberviolence.

a. 13 – 17

b. 18 – 24

c. 25 – 33

d. all of the above

14. Henry and Powell list categorically nonconsensual creation or distribution of _____ as technology-facilitated sexual violence.

a. some pornography

b. basic pornography

c. extortion

d. none of the above

15. Grove’s male activism invites men’s engagement with what is at stake in their vested interest in holding on to:

a. hyper-masculinity

b. sexism

c. heterosexism

d. all of the above

16. Grove wishes that other men would appreciate how remained disengaged would continue to:

a. dehumanize men

b. perpetuate violence against women

c. both “a” and “b”

d. neither “a” nor “b”

17. Grove argues that since most men do not see themselves as rapist, the _____ message is perceived as a women’s problem.

a. “Don’t Rape”

b. “See nothing. Do nothing”

c. “Don’t be a Victim”

d. all of the above

18. Segato’s reading complicates the issue of state-engendered and supported feminicide by describing how a neoliberal state implicates:

a. everyone, including the victims

b. no one, including those in power

c. a sovereign leader who reigns over everyone

d. criminals

19. Segato portrays how victims of feminicide are transformed into _____ to shield others from assuming responsibility for the victims’ fate.

a. sexually and socially immoral

b. partygoers and fun-lovers

c. drug addicts

d. all of the above

20. Segato points out how a pattern of “othering” leads to false premises and justifications regarding subjugating:

a. the stranger within State borders

b. women

c. First Nations/indigenous people

d. all of the above

Short answer/essay prompts (5-7)

1. The use of the term feminicide (feminicidio) in replacement of femicide (femicidio in Spanish means the homicide of women) has been adopted by feminist policy-makers, lawyers, and organizers desirous of emphasizing the collective nature of sexualized crimes as genocide against women. Is feminicide too strong a word to describe the micro, meso, macro, and global levels of violence that women experience daily? Explain.

2. Of the seven calls-to-action listed at the end of the chapter’s opening, which top three resonate most strongly with you toward causing permanent societal change? Why?

3. Morales concludes with the unapologetic affirmation: “Because the closer I come to that bright, hot center of pleasure and trust, the less I can tolerate its captivity, and the less afraid I am to be powerful, in a world that is in desperate need of unrepentant joy.” Is Morales claiming that power without joy is faux-power, and for the world to experience true power is for individuals to have joy? What else is she arguing for?

4. Brown states that Cywink refused to contribute the story of her missing sister to the catalogue of those missing because she had become wary of the British Columbia’s commission true intent. When linked to Davis’s observation (see Kafer’s reading of the previous chapter), can people no longer expect justice from their own government? If not, from where should justice come?

5. Henry and Powell make the cogent argument against victim-blaming regarding technology-facilitated sexual violence that advises victims to simply not participate by “turn[ing] off their devices” or “walk[ing] away.” Is this reasonable advice to offer victims? Why/Why not?

6. Grove presents images of “Activist Joes” on college campuses who partner with similar-minded organizations working for positive change. On your college campus, which are the student organizations to ally with and what new, creative activities can be engendered from this alliance?

7. Segato concludes by stating: “Historical conditions that can transform us into monsters or the accomplices of monsters threaten us all, and the menace of becoming monsters hangs over us all, without exception, as does the threat of becoming victims.” What does it take to prevent descending into a State/Nation of monsters?