PHI 208 week 5 quiz

PHI 208 week 5 quiz

Question 1.1. This product was pulled from Abercrombie and Fitch stores based on protests through a blog (Points : 1)       

       lingerie

      deep V-neck t-shirts

      padded swimsuit tops for toddlers

      yoga pants Question 2. 2. Held uses this example to talk about the political distinctions that separate men and women in the realms of the public and the private (Points : 1)

      a business man going out for cocktails

      a mother nursing her child

      a city planner developing a building

      a mother homeschooling her children

  Question 3. 3. According to Held, feminist theories of self (Points : 1)

      pit humans against one another in competition

      relate the individual to universal humankind

      examine what it means to be a woman in a horrific male-dominated world

      see the self as related to specific humans in relationship

  Question 4. 4. What does Noddings say about women’s feelings about the death of the body? (Points : 1)

      Women, more than anyone, just want to know that the soul of their child has gone to heaven

      Women know the preciousness of the body because they create them and care for them

      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 5. 5. Feminist ethics is based around which of the following ideas (Points : 1)

      That abstract universal principles can be applied to most situations to find the best action.

      That maximizing something like happiness or pleasure is the best way to guide action.

      That emotions can be cultivated and ought to be taken into account in ethical theory.

      That all humans are autonomous individuals who battle for resources.

  Question 6. 6. This is the name of being aware of one’s appearance in relation to position, light, who is watching, etc. (Points : 1)

      habitual body monitoring

      self-awareness

      anorexia

      depression

  Question 7. 7. What, according to Noddings, do male philosophers tend to say about death (as opposed to women)? (Points : 1)

      Men are more brave in the face of death than women because of their natural courageousness

      Death tends to be harder on men due to their attachments to the glory of this world

      Women are more able to allow their faith in the afterlife overcome their aversion to death

      Male philosophers often talk as though the world or reason and abstraction is superior to the physical world of the body

  Question 8. 8. According to Held, the following have been aligned with femininity in the history of Western thought (Points : 1)

      emotion

      weakness

      passion

      all of the above

  Question 9. 9. According to Colin Stokes, in this film all the heroic, wise, and villainous characters are female (Points : 1)

      The Little Mermaid

      Star Wars

      The Wizard of Oz

      Les Miserables

  Question 10. 10. This is the name for prostitutes in India who have been dedicated to a female goddess (Points : 1)

      Hindus

      Hiermala

      Devadasi

      Sangli

  Question 11. 11. In Gilligan’s example, the child named Amy focuses on this aspect of the Heinz dilemma (Points : 1)

      the logical nature of the problem

      a utilitarian calculus that weighs the options

      Kohlberg’s theory of moral development

      the relationships involved in the dilemma

  Question 12. 12. In the video “Sexism in the News Media 2012” some newscasters blame military women for this (Points : 1)

      being killed in combat

      being raped

      not being able to have children

      being war heroes

  Question 13. 13. What does Nel Noddings say about rates of violent crime among men and women? (Points : 1)

      Men are naturally much more violence prone than women

      Women commit nearly as much crime as men do; gender differences here are illusory

      Men can be socialized not to commit crime, as seen in many eastern societies

      There has been no clearly demonstrated relation between gender and crime rates

  Question 14. 14. This is the name of the female goddess to which young girls are dedicated and then forced into prostitution in India (Points : 1)

      Vishnu

      Krishna

      Lakshmi

      Yellamma

  Question 15. 15. Gilligan claims that females tend to see relationships as these (Points : 1 )

      hierarchies

      webs

      rules

      duties

  Question 16. 16. According to Gilligan, stages five and six of Kohlberg’s analysis of moral development involve (Points : 1)

      an egocentric understanding of fairness

      shared conventions of societal agreement

      a logic of equality and reciprocity

      a disposition of emotional affectivity

  Question 17. 17. Which answer best describes Noddings’s statements about how mothers frequently to feel about losing their children in war? (Points : 1)

      Mothers rest assured that the deaths of their children was fully justified by the good they did in the war

      Mothers often allow their desire to demonstrate patriotism to override their natural opposition to war and the death of their children

      Mothers universally oppose war and the death of children that it inevitably brings

      Mothers are generally more enthusiastic for war than anyone else because they know it will make the world safer for future generations

  Question 18. 18. According to Caroline Heldman, which of the following is a question that applies to her sexual object test? (Points : 1)

      Does the image show people having sex?

      Does the image show a person as something that can be bought or sold?

      Does the image display a full image of a woman?

      Does the image display violence against people in the image?

  Question 19. 19. In Held’s article, a thinker named Annette Baier claims that the history of Western ethical thought does not take into account feminine aspects because (Points : 1)

      The great moral theorists were men who had little intimate interaction with women.

      The great moral theorists were often loving husbands.

      The great moral theorists hated women.

      The great moral theorists

  Question 20. 20. What does Noddings say about male versus female language when opposing war? (Points : 1)

      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

      Men are more likely to speak in the abstract about violence; women are more likely to refer to their own hands on in helping victims of violence

      Women feel that language is irrelevant; it is actions that count