Deck 14: The Ethics of Gender and Race

Question 1

Fibromyalgia is a medical condition that presents itself often with sensitivity to pressure alongside chronic pain.There is no diagnostic test and no known cause.The label is used on about twice as many women as men.What concern about the condition might arise from a feminist examination of science?

A) the legitimacy of our biological understanding of pain
B) the both over- and under-diagnosis of the condition
C) that too many resources are being spent researching the condition
D) that the diagnosis is an instance of better understanding of women's bodies as science becomes less sexist

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Following the U.S.Civil War,some 15,000 Chinese migrants worked in harsh conditions to construct the first transcontinental railroad.About 1,200 died in the process and many more faced lasting injuries and lower pay than white construction workers.In the last few years there has been a move to create a memorial to the workers (there currently is a marker commemorating the completion of the railroad. )Such a memorial would serve which purpose?

A) Sojourner Truth's statement that "Because of them I can now live the dream."
B) Paolo Freire's claim that "The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole,but rather selected leaders."
C) Ludwig Wittgenstein's statement that "Knowledge is in the end based upon acknowledgement."
D) Judith Butler's claim that it is "important to name the lives that have not mattered."

Answer 2

D

Question 3

We often discuss how some roles in society have been socially constructed to more easily be seen as done by one gender or another.This can lead to which of the following?

A) direct discrimination
B) indirect discrimination
C) unintentional discrimination
D) sexual discrimination

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Imagine that we encounter intelligent life from another planet.Given Aristotle's reliance upon learning from our past actions,how would you recommend we attempt to interact with our new species in a virtuous way?

Question 5

Ethics of care is like virtue ethics in which of the following ways?

A) Both possess a deep concern about the role of the outsider.
B) Each tries to discern the basic principles at play in a conflict.
C) Both appreciate the complexity of a morally charged situation.
D) Both find morality to be contingent upon the social structure.

Question 6

An appropriate understanding of care ethics is that one must sacrifice one's interests to another.

Question 7

Women have historically been represented in ethics ________ in other disciplines of philosophy.

A) about the same
B) more than
C) less than
D) proportionally

Question 8

If you,like the author,were to attempt to bring together elements of moral theory from this examination,what would you propose and why?

Question 9

Gilligan's understanding of care ethics is which of the following?

A) It is focused on expanding our understanding of moral commands.
B) It is focused on relationships between people.
C) It is focused on teaching us how to be more nurturing.
D) It is focused on disproving Kantian approaches to ethics.

Question 10

What is the distinction between sex and gender?

A) Sex is performative;gender is determined.
B) Sex is binary;gender is fluid.
C) Sex is active;gender is passive.
D) Sex is biological;gender is social.

Question 11

Society sometimes reacts in different ways to the same behavior from different people.For example,we might look at Mark's interrupting in a conversation to be assertive,while the same behavior from Margaret would be seen as rude.This perceptual distinction is best understood as deriving from which of the following?

A) gender roles
B) biological determinism
C) sexuality
D) sex roles

Question 12

Imagine that a large corporation is looking to move into your community,offering apparently good-paying jobs for many citizens.But if it comes to your area,its new factory would block a religious denomination's view of a rock formation its members believe has great spiritual worth.What would a utilitarian analysis of this action entail?

Question 13

According to the author,care ethics is focused more fully on which of the following?

A) helping people develop a sensitivity to morally relevant questions
B) understanding what we can justly claim of another
C) expanding the list of moral instructions
D) critiquing the Western tradition

Question 14

Who said,"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house"?

A) Rafael Campo
B) Rita Mae Reese
C) Audre Lorde
D) Allen Ginsberg

Question 15

Frye with her birdcage analogy is calling for an awareness of individual issues in oppression in order to show that

A) oppressive regimes work the same regardless of what group is being kept out of power.
B) they work together to make something more formidable.
C) solving even a single issue would be enough to destroy the whole structure.
D) oppression can be transparent and still function well.

Question 16

It has become more common in American stores to have a "self-checkout" kiosk that allows customers to complete their purchases without the need for the store to hire an additional cashier.What would a Kantian analysis of this practice entail?