Deck 9: Gender-Based Violence

Question 1

Define the term "intimate partner violence." Why is this form of interpersonal violence the most commonplace globally?

Answer 1

(on pp. 262-263)

Question 2

Why must we today redefine the notion that gender-based violence is solely directed toward women? What other factors must be incorporated into our current definition of gender-based violence that expands beyond the traditional gender binary?

Answer 2

(on pp. 258-261)

Question 3

Where do scholars derive their data related to intimate partner violence?

Answer 3

(on pp. 265-266)

Question 4

While intimate partner violence occurs across all socio-economic, racial, ethnic, gender identity, sexual orientation, and other lines, explain why some American scholarly studies demonstrate that African Americans, Latinx, and Native American couples report greater frequencies of intimate partner violence than their white counterparts?

Question 5

What are the requirements that campuses must achieve under Title IX?

Question 6

What is the historical origin of the Take Back the Night marches? Why are these marches still popular on college campuses?

Question 7

Explain why hate crimes against LGBT people are classified as gender-based violence that damages their communities?

Question 8

Why are rape shield laws important in the successful prosecution of rape cases? Why do exceptions in rape shield laws jeopardize survivors' lives?

Question 9

How does anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday define "rape prone" cultures? Why does she contend that culture exerts a powerful influence in the manifestation of male sexual violence?

Question 10

How is the work of early feminist activism and scholarship against sexual violence still vital today?

Question 11

What factor represents a more important risk factor than patriarchal beliefs for men and women in intimate partner violence?

Question 12

What do most studies indicate regarding bidirectional violence in the U.S. and other Western nations?

Question 13

What is the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)? Explain the social, economic, and political issues that frame the debate about the effectiveness of this historic legislation?

Question 14

Why does it remain a challenge to provide a universal legal definition of rape in the United States that encompass both the federal government, the 50 states, and the five territories?

Question 15

Why do anti-rape advocates in their public campaigns for confronting and ending sexual violence focus on the perpetrators of sexual violence?

Question 16

How is the term "hate crime" defined? What key factor(s) cause people to commit hate crimes against the LGBT communities?

Question 17

What important factor(s) increase the likelihood and duration of stalking?

Question 18

Explain what constitutes textual harassment. Why does it remain more common among teenagers in violent dating relationships?

Question 19

Why do many people believe that it is rare for a man to be sexually assaulted by a woman?

Question 20

Define the term hypermasculinity.

Question 21

When did Susan Brownmiller write the book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape?

A) 1980
B) 1969
C) 1972
D) 1975
E) 1967

Question 22

Which was the first U.S. state to establish a law known as "yes means yes" legislation concerning sexual assaults on its college campuses?

A) Washington
B) California
C) Maryland
D) Oregon
E) Connecticut

Question 23

How many requirements must schools meet under Title IX when they find sexual assault has happened on their campuses?

A) 3
B) 5
C) 2
D) 4
E) 6

Question 24

Identify the person who this comment: " [A]cross nations, states and cultures, women's empowerment is associated with lower victimization rates from their partners?"

A) Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling
B) Sarah Desmarais
C) John Archer
D) Patricia Tjaden
E) Nancy Thoennes

Question 25

Which state was the last one to end the proviso that statutory rape was not "real rape" if the female victim was "unchaste"?

A) South Carolina
B) Utah
C) Alabama
D) Arkansas
E) Mississippi

Question 26

Where was the first bilingual rape hotline founded in 1976?

A) The Bronx
B) East Los Angeles
C) Little Havana in Miami
D) Southside Chicago
E) Mexicantown in Detroit

Question 27

When did the U.S. Congress first pass the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)?

A) 1990
B) 2000
C) 2001
D) 1994
E) 1996

Question 28

Where did the case of Margaux J. occur?

A) Indiana University
B) Swarthmore College
C) University of Minnesota
D) Marquette University
E) Kent State University

Question 29

What year was the Jeanne Clery Act signed into law?

A) 1989
B) 1991
C) 1986
D) 1993
E) 1990

Question 30

When did U.S. jurisdictions begin to recognize rape within marriage?

A) 2000s
B) 1970s
C) 1980s
D) 1960s
E) 1990s

Question 31

What year did Nepal's Supreme Court granted the same legal rights to gay and intersex people as afforded to other citizens of Nepal?

A) 2003
B) 2001
C) 2010
D) 2007
E) 2012

Question 32

When was the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed?

A) 2011
B) 2009
C) 2006
D) 2013
E) 2007

Question 33

Who made the observation that many teens have difficulty recognizing textual harassment as abusive?

A) Alan Felthouse
B) Lawrence Miller
C) Gregory Herek
D) Estelle Freedman
E) Donna St. George

Question 34

Which country established women's police stations to help increase reporting of crimes against women and children and a better conviction rate?

A) Canada
B) Jamaica
C) India
D) Portugal
E) Singapore

Question 35

Who argued that hate crimes against the transgendered "evoke a sense of fear that percolates throughout the transgender community, encouraging transgender people to renounce open expression of their gender identity lest they face similar violence?"

A) Tarynn Witten
B) Kimberly Mitchell
C) Michelle Ybarra
D) Paul Miller
E) Lisa Bunting

Question 36

According to a World Health Organization study in 2013, what percentage of women globally reported having experienced intimate partner violence?

A) 79%
B) 37%
C) 30%
D) 89%
E) 25%

Question 37

Which African American female writer called for an end to racism in the antiviolence movement?

A) Suzan-Lori Parks
B) Michelle Cliff
C) Terry McMillian
D) Gloria Naylor
E) Alice Walker

Question 38

What is the most common form of intimate partner violence?

A) Violent Resistance
B) Situational Couple Violence
C) Emotional abuse
D) Stalking
E) Controlling behaviors

Question 39

Which one of the following researchers spent a year observing students in a California high school for a study on hypermasculine behavior?

A) C. J. Pascoe
B) Stephen Humphrey
C) Arnold Kahn
D) M. J. Anderson
E) David Lisak

Question 40

By 1976, how many rape crisis hotline opened in the United States?

A) 400
B) 299
C) 350
D) 375
E) 420

Question 41

Which one of the following nations has recently outlawed "gay propaganda," including parades, newspapers, magazines, literature, and other media?

A) Uruguay
B) Argentina
C) Russia
D) South Africa
E) Botswana

Question 42

By what year all 50 U.S. states and the federal government outlawed stalking?

A) 1999
B) 1994
C) 2003
D) 1996
E) 2000

Question 43

Which group in 1973 created a rape task force to advocate for changes in state rape laws?

A) National Black Feminist Organization
B) National Organization for Women
C) Women's Action Alliance
D) Chicago Women's Liberation Union
E) National Women's Political Caucus

Question 44

What year was the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act?

A) 2006
B) 2010
C) 2012
D) 2013
E) 2015

Question 45

Which one of the following U.S. states in 1991 still allowed defendants to use the fact of marriage to the victim as an unequivocal defense against rape charges?

A) Oklahoma
B) New Mexico
C) Utah
D) Vermont
E) North Dakota

Question 46

Most scholarly research points out that all male fraternities and sports teams are at high risk for committing sexual violence.

Question 47

By 2018, thirty U.S. states implemented laws that address hate crimes based on sexual orientation or sexual orientation and gender identity.

Question 48

Most female stalkers prefer to stalk former partners or family members (male or female).

Question 49

Psychologist Martin Lalumière and others concluded that rape was not universal across societies, and its frequency did not vary too much.

Question 50

The artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh designed the art series "Stop Telling Women to Smile" which centers on real women in public spaces where sexual harassment happens.

Question 51

Most rapes are interracial, involving two people of different races.

Question 52

Most stalkers are physically violent.

Question 53

While falsely accusing someone of rape is a serious issue, research demonstrates that it is not a prevalent problem.

Question 54

The early activism and scholarship of feminists on rape concentrated mostly on unidirectional violence.

Question 55

Family conflict studies use a tool called the Family Conflict Tactics Scale (FCTS) to measure intimate partner violence.