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- Kamen, Paula, "Feminism, a Dirty Word", The New York Times,
- November 23, 1990, page A37.
-
- Leidholdt, Dorchen and Janice G. Raymond, eds. _The Sexual Liberals
- and the Attack on Feminism_. Pergamon Press, New York. 1990.
- Essays which originated as speeches and panel presentations at a
- conferences on April 6, 1987, at the New York University Law
- School. Includes bibliographical references and index.
-
- Smith, Joan. _Misogynies: Reflections on Myths and Malice_. Fawcett
- Columbine Book, Ballantine Books, Publishers. 1989. ISBN:0-449-90591-8.
- From blurb: "Joan Smith has written a witty and bold collection
- of essays on the alarming subject of women-hating. She observes
- the phenomenon wryly and never succumbs to the fatuous
- generalizations which characterize misogyny itself...Misogyny,
- unlike sexism, grows in this way behind women's backs, which may
- be why we sometimes optimistcially believe it is no longer
- prevalent. It is aptly, intelligently and compassionately put
- before us again in this well-written book." (Literary Review).
-
-
- 20. Religion.
- --------------
-
- Adler, Margot. _Drawing Down the Moon_. Revised edition. Beacon
- Press, Boston. 1986. ISBN: 0-8070-3253-0.
- This has a chapter on "Women, Feminism, and the Craft". It places
- feminist wicca in one of its contexts. Otherwise the book is
- mainly about neopaganism.
-
- Armstrong, Karen. _The Gospel According to Woman_. Anchor Books,
- Doubleday. 1987. ISBN: 0-385-24079-1 (trade paperback).
- A provocative interpretation of the history of women in
- Christianity. In particular, there are interesting parallels
- between the Virgins (who could stay separate from men) of
- Christian history and latter-day feminists.
-
- Beck, Evelyn Torton, ed. _Nice Jewish Girls. A Lesbian Anthology_.
- Revised and updated. Beacon Press, Boston. 1989.
-
- Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schussler. _Bread Not Stone_. Beacon Press,
- Boston. 1984. ISBN: 0-8070-1103-7 (trade paperback).
- Feminist biblical interpretation.
-
- Greenberg, Blu. _On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition_. Jewish
- Publication Society of America, Philadelphia. 1981.
- This discusses conflicts between Orthodox Judaism and feminism,
- and suggests resolutions of the conflicts within the boundaries of
- Jewish law.
-
- Hampson, Daphne. _Theology and Feminism_. Basil Blackwell Ltd/Inc.
- 1990. ISBN: 0-631-14944-9.
- Discusses the limitations of Christianity from a feminist
- perspective, and suggests ways for moving beyond Christianity.
-
- Heine, Susanne. _Women and Early Christianity: A Reappriasal_.
- Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis. 1988. ISBN: 0-8066-2359-4.
- Documents the strength of influence women had in early
- Christianity, uses this as basis for concluding that Christianity
- need not be anti-woman. Originally published in German under
- _Frauen der Fru:hen Christenheit_.
-
- Heschel, Susannah. _On Being a Jewish Feminist: A Reader_. Schocken,
- 1984.
-
- Kaye/Kantrowitz, Melanie and Irena Klepfisz. _The Tribe of Dina:
- A Jewish Women's Anthology_. Beacon Press. 1989.
-
- Koltun, Elizabeth. _The Jewish Woman: New Perspectives_. Schocken
- Books, 1976.
-
- Miles, Margaret R. . _Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious
- Meaning in the Christian West_. Beacon Press, Boston. 1989.
- Looks at how images of the female body have shaped and been shaped
- by religious and social forces. Although most of the emphasis is
- mediaeval, It has a final chapter that looks at a modern
- perspective. Has an excellent section on Hildegard von Bingen,
- one of the few female writers of the middle ages.
-
- Pagel, Elaine. _Adam, Eve, and The Serpent_. Random House, New York.
- 1988. Also, _The Gnostic Gospels_. Vintage Books edition, Random
- House, New York. 1989.
- The former is a thorough exploration of how the Genesis myth is
- inextricably interwined with western culture views of women. The
- latter shows how the early Christian church although initially
- receptive to women became patriarchal.
-
- Plaskow, Judith. _Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism From A Feminist
- Perspective_. Harper Collins, 1990. ISBN 0-06-066684-6.
- Plaskow discusses conflicts between Judaism and feminism, and
- suggests ways to make Judaism into a feminist religion.
-
- Ruther, Rosmary Radford. _Women-Church. Theology and Practice of
- Feminist Liturgical Communities_. ISBN 0-06-066834-2.
- This is a collection of liturgies for unconventional purposes
- (i.e. A Coming-Out rite for a Lesbian). They are not so much pagan
- as they are feminist. They ignore the distinctions between
- Christian and non-Christian. The thesis of the book is in part
- that women should create their own ritual without waiting for the
- "church" to catch up with their reality. Ruther has written other
- books with similar themes.
-
- Schneider, Susan Weidman. _Jewish and Female_. Simon & Schuster.
- ISBN: 0-671-60439-2.
-
- Sprentak, Charlene, ed. _The Politics of Women's Spirituality:
- Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power within the Feminist Movement_.
- 1982. ISBN. 0-385-17241-9.
- This is a thick (590pp) sampler with short pieces by a number of
- important authors. A few are written as responses to others which
- gives a bit more sense of the dialog.
-
- Starhawk. _The Spiral Dance_. 10th anniversary edition, revised.
- Harper & Row, San Francisco. 1989. ISBN 0-06-250814-8.
- This has clearly been a very influential book. Z. Budapest is
- another mother of feminist wicca from the same era; Starhawk seems
- a bit more readable and less cookbook-like.
-
- Stone, Merlin. _When God Was a Woman_. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
- Publishers. 1976. ISBN: 0-15-696158-X (trade paperback).
- Historical revisionist view of early matriarchal & female-based
- worship.
-
-
- 21. Sex and/or Violence.
- -------------------------
-
- Barry, Kathleen. _Female Sexual Slavery_. Prentice-Hall, Englewood
- Cliffs, NJ, 1979; New York University Press, London and New York, 1984.
-
- Bart, Pauline and Patricia O'Brien. _Stopping Rape: Successful
- Survival Strategies_. Pergamon Press, New York. 1985.
-
- Browne, Angela. _When Battered Women Kill_. Collier Macmillian,
- London; Free PRess, New York. 1987.
-
- Brownmiller, Susan. _Against Our Will_. Bantam. 1975.
- This is a disturbing, contradictory work. It is misrepresented
- both by feminist and anti-feminist camps; feminists lauding it as
- a quintessentially accurate portrayal of rape, the anti-feminists
- denouncing it as a virulently anti-male piece of propoganda.
- A landmark work that first documented the social and historical
- consequences of rape in our society.
-
- Caputi, Jane. _The Age of Sex Crime_. Bowling Green State University
- Popular Press, Bowling Green, OH. 1987.
- Case studies on murder and sex crimes.
-
- Ellis, Lee and Charles Beattie. "The Feminist Explanation for Rape. An
- Empirical Test," _Journal of Sex Research_, 19(1).74-93, Feb 1983.
- Abstract. The feminist explanation for rape includes the
- proposition that it derives from traditions of male domination in
- social, political, and economic matters. As a test of this thesis,
- official FBI and victimization statistics on rape were compared
- across 26 large United States central cities relative to various
- indicators of these cities' degree of social, political, and
- economic inequality between the sexes. Of 14 correlations, 4 were
- significant, 3 with a sign opposite to that predicted by the
- feminist explanation. When presumed effects of the two strongest
- control variables were removed by partial correlation techniques,
- only one coefficient was significant, and it was in the direction
- contrary to the feminist explanation. Rape rates appear unrelated
- to inequalities of earnings, education, occupational prestige, or
- employment. The belief that reducing sex disparities in social,
- political, and economic terms will reduce rape is not supported. 3
- Tables, 55 References.
-
- Finkelhor, David and Kersti Yllo. _License to Rape: Sexual Abuse of
- Wives_. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, 1985; Free Press, New
- York, 1987.
-
- Griffin, Susan. _The Politics of Rape_. Third revision and updated
- edition. Harper and Row, San Francisco, 1986.
- Original copyright 1970.
- "Another canon in the apologetics of rape is that, if it were not
- for learned social controls, all men would rape."..."But in truth
- rape is not universal to the human species."
-
- Griffin, Susan. "Rape: The All-American Crime" in _Rape: The Power of
- Consciousness_, Harper & Row, 1979.
-
- Haber, Joel D. "Abused Women and Chronic Pain," in _American Journal
- of Nursing_, v85, Sept. 1985, pp1010-1012.
- Study shows that abused women have more health problems than
- non-abused ones.
-
- Jones, Anne. _Women Who Kill_. Fawcett Crest, Ballantine Books, New
- York. 1981.
- From blurb: "When battered and abused women began to fight back --
- and kill --- men began to fear that this would becom an epidemic.
- Some felt that women were getting away with murder: But were they?
- They were not. In fact, in many cases their punishment was
- harsher than that of men. But this book is much more than a
- desription of battered women who kill in self-defense. It is a
- social history and a fascinating story of women on the edge of
- society -- women driven to kill for a multitude of reasons. Here
- are tales of crime and punishment that reveal hard truths about
- American society and women's place in it."
-
- Kelly, Liz. _Surviving Sexual Violence_. University of Minnesota
- Press, Minneapolis; Polity Press, Cambridge UK. 1988.
-
- Kilpatrick, D.G. et al., "Mental health correlates of criminal
- victimization. A random community survey," _Journal of Consulting &
- Clinical Psychology_, Vol. 53, 866-873. 1985.
-
- Koss, M.P. "Hidden rape. sexual aggression and victimization in
- a national sample of students in higher education." Chapter 1. In A.W.
- Burgess, ed, _Rape and sexual assault II_ (pp. 3-25). NY. Garland. 1988.
- Controversial. This was a study that showed a good percentage of
- the men surveyed believed certain things could be expected if they
- paid for dinner, etc. There were questions designed in such a way
- that would find out if the men had raped without using the word
- rape. They would answer yes to these questions but no to the
- questions containing the word rape.
-
- McFarlane, Judith. "Violence During Teen Pregnancy: Health
- Consequences for Mother and Child," in Levy, Barrie, ed, _Dating
- Violence_, Seal Press, 1991, pp136-141.
- A study that found 26% of prengant teens were currently in an
- abusive relationship; many noted the abuse began when the
- pregnancy did.
-
- Mercy JA., Saltzman LE., Intentional Injury Section, Centers for
- Disease Control, Atlanta, GA 30333. May 1989. "Fatal violence among
- spouses in the United States," 1976-85. _American Journal of Public
- Health_. 79(5).595-9.
- Abstract. In this paper we examine patterns and trends in
- homicides between marriage partners in the United States for 1976
- through 1985 using data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's
- Supplemental Homicide Reports (FBI-SHR). We identified 16,595
- spouse homicides accounting for 8.8 per cent of all homicides
- reported to the FBI-SHR during this 10-year period. The rate of
- spouse homicide for this 10-year period was 1.6 per 100,000
- married persons. The risk of being killed by one's spouse was 1.3
- times greater for wives than for husbands. Black husbands were at
- greater risk of spouse homicide victimization than Black wives or
- White spouses of either sex. The risk of victimization was greater
- for spouses in interracial than in intraracial marriages and
- increased as age differences between spouses increased. From 1976
- through 1985, the risk of spouse homicide declined by more than
- 45.0 per cent for both Black husbands and wives but remained
- relatively stable for White husbands and wives. Demographic
- patterns in the risk of spouse homicide were similar to those
- reported for nonfatal spouse abuse suggesting that the causes of
- spouse homicide and nonfatal spouse abuse may be similar.
-
- Morgan, Robin. _The Demon Lover: On the Sexuality of Terrorism_.
- W.W. Norton and Company. 1989. ISBN: 0-393-02642-6 (hardback).
- Controversial. Blurb: "Something in each of us, no matter how we
- deny it and no matter how much we may deplore terrorist tactics,
- is fascinated by the terrorist. We might even ambivalently admire
- such a figure: a fanatic of dedication, a mixture of volatile
- impetuosity and severe discipline, an archetype of self-sacrifice.
- ...In this brilliant marriage of theory and personal experience,
- Robin Morgan...sets forth the first feminist analysis of the
- phenomenon of terrorism."
-
- Quigley, Paxton. _Armed and Female_. E.P. Dutton, New York. 1989.
- Paperback may be ordered from Second Amendment Foundation, 12500
- NE Tenth Place, Bellavue WA 98005 for US$5.00, includes postage.
- Former anti-gun activist tells why she joined millions of other
- women in choosing a firearm for self-defense.
-
- Randall, Teri. "Domestic Violence Intervention Calls for More than
- Treating Injuries," in _Journal of the American Medical Association_,
- 264(8), August 22-29, 1990, pp939-940.
- "Battery appears to be the single most common cause of injury to
- women -- more common that automobile accidents, muggings and rapes
- combined."
-
- Russell, Diana H. _Sexual Exploitation: Rape, Child Sexual Abuse, and
- Workplace Harassment_. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, CA. 1984.
-
- Russell, Diana E. H. and Nancy Howell. "The Prevalence of Rape
- in the United States Revisited," _Signs_, 8(4). 688-695, 1983.
- Lead author is in the Department of Social Sciences, Mills
- College, Oakland CA, and has written several books on sexual
- violence. According to survey findings, assuming that the rape
- rate remains the same, there is a 26% probability that woman will
- be the victim of a completed rape, increasing to 46% for attempted
- rape.
-
- Scully, Diana. _Understanding Sexual Violence: A Study of Convicted
- Rapists_. Series: Perspectives on Gender, vol 3. Unwin Hyman, Boston.
- 1990.
-
- Stark, Evan, Anne Flitcraft and William Frazier. "Medicine and
- Patriarchal Violence: The Social Construction of a 'Private'
- Event," in _International Journal of Health Services_, 9(3), 1979,
- pp461-493.
- A study that found that medical records included the labels
- "neurotic," "hysteric," "hypochondriac," or "a well-known patient
- with multiple vague complaints" for one in four battered women
- compared to one in fifty non-battered women; one in four battered
- women are given pain medications/tranquilizers as compared to one
- in ten non-battered women.
-
- Strauss, M.A., Gelles, R.J., and Steinmetz, S.K. _Behind closed doors:
- Violence in American families_. Doubleday, New York, 1980. Followup
- work "Intimate Violence" (no detailed reference).
- These studies show that spousal violence levels are relatively
- independent of gender. They do not, however, include any
- consideration of motivation or the issues of 'self defense'.
-
- Warshaw, Robin. _I Never Called It Rape: The Ms. report on
- Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape_.
- Afterword by Mary P. Koss. Harper and Row, New York. 1988.
-
- Wolfgang Marvin E., _Patterns in Criminal Homicide_. University of
- Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 1958. Also (*Curtis 1974), (*Mercy &
- Saltzman 1989).
- The situation appears to bethat the rate that men kill women and
- that women kill men, and also the rate at which husbands kill
- wives and wives kill husbands, are nearly *equal* when looked at
- from a mortality point of view, and ignoring the issue of 'who
- started it'.
-
- Yllo, Kerst, and Michele Bograd, eds. _Feminist Perspectives on Wife
- Abuse_. Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA. 1988.
- Includes important discussion of what statistics can or cannot
- show. Bibliographies.
-
- _National Crime Survey_ (NCS)
- This is an attempt to measure the actual victimization rates of
- how often people are affected by crimes. The survey is given to a
- population representative of all people over 12 years of age who
- live in a residence. There are two parts to the survey. a
- screening to determine who has been the victim of a crime; and a
- detailed questionnaire given to victims. The detailed
- questionnaire includes the details and date of the crime, and
- helps insure that crimes are classified properly (e.g., crimes
- falling outside the survey 'time window' are properly excluded).
- It is a large scale survey, covering approximately 60,000
- households with 101,000 people. Approximately 96% of the selected
- population agreed to participate in the survey.
-
- _Statistical Abstracts of the U.S. - 1990_. Department of Commerce
- (Bureau of the Census), put out yearly.
- Cites the incidence of reported forcible rape as 37.6 per 100,000
- total (i.e., men and women) population.
-
- _Uniform Crime Report_ (UCR)
- Based solely on police reports and is not intended to be a
- statistical measure of victimization The Uniform Crime Report is
- based on police reports. The data given by the UCR includes
- _only_ murder, not killings in self defense or deaths due to
- negligence - and the interpretation of which is which is left to
- the officer filing the report.
-
- _Uniform Crime Statistics_ (UCS, from the FBI)
- This derives the "one in four" figure given for the rate of rape
- among women. It used to be "one in five" until the FBI decided
- that marital rape counted as rape (in the mid 1980s). The FBI's
- definition of rape involves penetration of any orifice without
- consent. 1 in 4 is the rate at which girls are sexually abused
- (rape and molestation); 1 in 6 is the rate at which the same
- occurs for boys.
-
-
- 22. Sexual Harassment and Discrimination.
- ------------------------------------------
-
- Baker, Douglas D., David E. Terpstra, and Kinley Larantz. "The
- Influence of Individual Characteristics and Severity of Harassing
- Behavior on Reactions to Sexual Harassment", _Sex Roles: A Journal of
- Research_, 5/6 (1990) 305-325.
-
- Bem, Sandra L. and Daryl J. Bem. "Does Sex-biased Job Advertising
- 'Aid and Abet' Sex Discrimination?", _Journal of Applied Social
- Psychology_, 3 (1973): 6-18.
-
- Chestler, Phyllis. [book review in psychology today, statistics
- on child custody awards]
-
- Dale, R.R. _Mixed or Single-sex Schools_. Vols. I & II. 1969.
- Wide range of research on secondary schools.
-
- Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs, and William J. Goode, eds. _The other half;
- roads to women's equality_. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
- 1971.
-
- Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs, and Rose Laub Coser, eds. _Access to power :
- cross-national studies of women and elites_. Allen & Unwin, London
- and Boston. 1981.
-
- Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs. _Deceptive distinctions : sex, gender, and
- the social order_. Yale University Press, New Haven; Russell Sage
- Foundation, New York. c1988.
-
- Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs. _Woman's place; options and limits in
- professional careers_. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- 1970.
-
- *Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs. "Bringing Women In: Rewards, Punishments,
- and the Structure of Achievement", pages 13-22.
-
- Game, Ann and Rosemary Pringle. _Gender at Work_. Allen and Unwin,
- Sydney and Boston. 1983.
- Sex discrimination in employment against women in Australia.
-
- *Goldberg, Philip, "Are Women Prejudiced Against Women?", _Trans-
- Action_, 5 (1986), 28-80. [am not sure what "Trans-Action" is]
-
- Gornick, Vivian and Barbara K. Moran, eds. _Women in Sexist Society_.
- New York: Basic Books, 1972.
-
- Kaschak, Ellyn. "Sex Bias in Student Evaluations of College Professors",
- _Psychology of Women Quarterly_, 2 (1978), 235-242.
-
- LaPlante, Alice. "Sexist Images Persist at Comdex", _Infoworld_,
- November 27, 1989, page 58.
-
- Lattin, Patricia Hopkins. "Academic Women, Affirmative Action, and
- Middle-America in the Eighties", in Resa L. Dudovitz, ed., _Women in
- Academe_. Pergamon Press, Oxford. 1984. 223-230.
-
- MacKinnon, Catharine. _Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of
- Sex Discrimination_. Yale University Press, New Haven. 1979.
-
- MacKinnon, Catharine. "Reflections on Sex Equality Under Law," in
- _Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review_. Vol. 20, no. 2.
- 1985.
-
- Paludi, Michele A. and William D. Bauer. "Goldberg Revisited: What's
- in an Author's Name", _Sex Roles: A Journal of Research_, 9 (1983) 387-
- 390.
-
- Paludi, Michele A. and Lisa A. Strayer. "What's in an Author's Name?
- Different Evaluations of Performance as a Function of Author's
- Name", _Sex Roles: A Journal of Research_, 12 (1985) 353-361.
-
- Pringle, Rosemary. _Secretaries Talk: Sexuality, Power and Work_,
- Verso, New York and London. 1989.
- Sex discrimination and sexual harrassment of women.
-
- Rowe, Mary P. "Barriers to Equality: The Power of Subtle
- Discrimination to Maintain Unequal Opportunity", _Employee
- Responsibilities and Rights Journal_, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1990. 153-163.
-
- Rowe, Mary P. "Dealing with Sexual Harassment", _Harvard Business
- Review_, May-June 1981, 42-47.
-
- Russ, Joanna. _How to Suppress Women's Writing_. University of Texas
- Press, 1983, ISBN 0-292-72445-4 (pbk).
- This book analyzes the multitude of subtle and not-so-subtle ways
- in which women writers have been given less than full credit for
- their work throughout history. It is the perfect companion volume
- to Ellen Moers's _Literary Women_.
-
- Sadker, Myra and David Sadker. "Sexism in the Schoolroom of the
- 80's", _Psychology Today_, March 1985.
-
- Selvin, Paul. "Does the Harrison Case Reveal Sexism in Math?",
- _Science_ 252 (June 28, 1991), 1781-1783.
-
- Simeone, Angela. _Academic Women: Working Towards Equality_. Bergin
- and Garvey Publishers, Inc., Massachusetts. 1987.
-
- Sproull, Lee, Sara Kiesler, and David Zubrow, eds. "Encountering an
- Alien Culture", in _Computing and Change on Campus_. Cambridge
- University Press, UK. 1987, pages 173-194.
-
- Stewart, Elizabeth, Nancy Hutchinson, Peter Hemmingway, and Fred
- Bessai. "The Effects of Student Gender, Race, and Achievement on
- Career Exploration Advice Given by Canadian Preservice Teachers",
- _Sex Roles: A Journal of Research_, 21 (1989) 247-262.
-
- Sumrall, Amber Coverdale and Dena Taylor, eds. _Sexual Harassment:
- Women Speak Out_. The Crossing Press, Freedom, CA 95019, 1992. ISBN
- 0-89594-544-4. ($10.95)
- Highly recommended. This book consists of short (2-4 pages) essays
- by women about their experiences with Sexual Harassment, everything
- from taunts and whistles to rape and other physical abuse. Stories
- are interspersed with comics drawn by women and some poetry. Many
- of the stories describe the early conditioning that women receive
- that makes us put up with so much. The book is dedicated to Anita
- Hill.
-
- Top, Titia J., "Sex Bias in the Evaluation of Performance in the
- Scientific, Artistic, and Literary Professions: A Review.", Sex Roles: A
- Journal of Research, 24 (1991) 73-106.
-
- Weinraub, Marsha and Lynda M. Brown, "The Development of Sex-
- Role Stereotypes in Children: Crushing Realities", Franks and
- Rothblum, editors, _The Stereotyping of Women: Its Effects on Mental
- Health_, Springer Publishing Company, New York. 1983, pages 30-58.
-
- Weitzman, Lenore. _The Marriage Contract_.
-
- "...child care decisions. Twentieth century case law has
- established the presumption that prefers mothers as the custodians
- of their children after divorce, particularly if the children are
- of "tender years." [Mnookin, "Custody Adjudication," p. 235.]
- This maternal presumption WAS ESTABLISHED ALMOST ENTIRELY THROUGH
- JUDICIAL DECISIONS RATHER THAN BY STATUTES. For while most
- statues have put the wife on an equal footing with the husband,
- and have instructed the courts to award custody in the best
- interest of the child, judges typically have held that *it is
- in the child's best interest not to be separated from the mother*
- --unless she has been shown to be unfit. [Ibid.]
-
- "The child's best interest" has thus evolved into a judicially
- constructed presumption that the love and nurturance of a fit
- mother is always in the child's (and society's) best interest.
- The result has been a consistent pattern of decisions that both
- justify and further reinforce the maternal presumption....
-
- "Over the past fifty years the assumption that the mother is the
- natural and proper custodian of the children has been so widely
- accepted that it has rarely been questioned, and even more rarely
- challenged. As Alan Roth asserts, many of the rationales offered
- by the courts for the maternal preference have the ring of
- divine-right doctrine [Alan Roth, "The Tender Years Presumption in
- Child Custody Disputes," _Journal_of_Family_Law_ 15, no. 3 (1972)]"
-
- "More recently the social science adduced to support the maternal
- presumption has been challenged, but the presumption itself has
- been considered wise because it avoids "the social costs" of
- contested cases. [See, for example, R. Levy and P. Ellsworth
- "Legislative Reform of Child Custody Adjudication,"
- _Law_and_Society_Review_, Nov. 1969, p. 4]
-
-
- 23. Test Biases.
- -----------------
-
- Brush, Stephen. _ibid_.
- When the SAT is used by college admissions to predict academic
- performance, it underpredicts the grades of women compared with
- those on men. If a man and a woman have the same SAT scores, the
- woman will tend to get higher grades in college. Thus an
- admissions process that gives the SAT significant weight will
- reject some women who would have done better than men who were
- accepted.
-
- In a reply to letters to the editor in the Jan-Feb 1992
- _American Scientist_, Brush wrote:
-
- [A]ccording to Phyllis Rosser's study, "The SAT Gender Gap," the
- following question was answered correctly by males 27 percent more
- often than by females (a difference of 6 percent is significant to
- the 0.05 level of confidence).
-
- A high school basketball team has won 40 percent of its first
- 15 games. Beginning with the 16th game, how many games in a
- row does the team now have to win in order to have a 55
- percent winning record?
-
- A) 3 B) 5 C) 6 D) 11 E) 15
-
- With a strict time limit, the advantage goes to students who can
- quickly guess and verify the right answer without having to set up
- the equation first.
-
- Rosser, Phillis. "The SAT Gender Gap. Identifying the Causes,"
- (Washington, D.C.: Center for Women Policy Studies, 1989).
- According to Phyllis Rosser, much of the SAT gender gap is an
- artifact of sex-biased test questions. Rosser points out that men
- have always received higher scores, on average, but their
- advantage in the mathematics part of the test was once offset by
- women's higher scores on the verbal part. Women lost this
- compensating factor in the early 1970s because of the gradual
- introduction of test questions about science, business and
- "practical affairs," and the elimination of some questions about
- human relations, the arts, and the humanities. There was no
- compensating change in the mathematics section.
-
- Block, Ned, ed. _The IQ Controversy_.
- Information on biases of all sorts found in IQ tests.
-
-
- 24. Women of Color.
- --------------------
-
- Anzaldua, Gloria. _Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Frontera_.
- Spinsters/Aunt Lute, San Francisco. 1987.
-
- Anzaldua, Gloria, ed. _Making face, making soul = Haciendo caras :
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- Foundation Books, San Francisco. c1990.
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- Collins, Patricia Hill. _Black Feminist Thought_. Unwin Hyman,
- Boston. 1990. Series title: Perspectives on Gender; v. 2.
- Maps out standpoint epistemology from African American feminist
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- Davis, Angela. _Women, Race, and Class_. Random House, New York, 1981.
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- DuBois, Ellen Carol and Vicki L. Ruiz, eds. _Unequal Sisters. A
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- Excellent collection of articles, many historical studies and some
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