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- From: levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine)
- Newsgroups: alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: The BEM Test
- Message-ID: <C017oD.2n@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 17:38:36 GMT
- References: <BzzoAJ.Kwo@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec28.202815.1@fnalno.fnal.gov>
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- holzman@fnalno.fnal.gov (Daniel B. Holzman) writes:
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- >In article <BzzoAJ.Kwo@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore
- >Levine) writes:
- >> The fact that I found this test, suggests that it was in use some time
- >> in the past ten years. I am curious when and how it was devised, whether
- >> it's still in use, and for what clients it's intended.
-
- >If I recall my Psych of Women correctly, the Inventory was devised by feminist
- >psychologist Dr. Sandra Bem. The result of the inventory are plotted on a
- >"masculine"/"feminine" cartesian axes set, as follows:
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- >Quadrant I (high masculine/high feminine): subject is culturally androgynous
- > II (low " /high " ): " " " feminine
- > III (low " /low " ): " " " neuter (?)
- > IV (hihg " /low " ): " " " masculine
-
- >If it is given to anyone other than people taking psych of women courses, I
- >don't know. Implicit in the test is the understanding that these are cultural
- >definitions, not eternal truths.
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- >Daniel B. Holzman
-
- Let me note that the "cultural definitions" seem to apply very badly
- to Eastern European Jewish culture. They would probably apply *only*
- to Anglo-Saxon culture.
-