Deck 5: Media Misogyny: Monstrous Women

Question 1

All of the following are notions of feminine except:

A) passive.
B) paternal.
C) married.
D) monogamous.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

According to the authors, women rarely ______

A) stalk.
B) kill strangers.
C) commit serial murder.
D) all of these.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

In 2014, women were offenders in less than ______% of the murder cases where the offender was known.

A) 7
B) 12
C) 19
D) 26

Answer 3

B

Question 4

"______" involves the denial of large parts of ourselves, or the projection of those parts of ourselves, which make us feel vulnerable to others.

A) Deviance
B) Difference
C) Essentialism
D) Feminism

Question 5

All of the following are considered symbolic cultural representations that marginalize women and other minorities except:

A) repress.
B) praise.
C) humiliate.
D) objectify.

Question 6

In brief, feminist criminological perspectives emerged in the ______.

A) 1950s
B) 1960s
C) 1970s
D) 1980s

Question 7

Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts, in ______.

A) 1891
B) 1893
C) 1895
D) 1897

Question 8

Susan Smith was convicted of murdering her two young children, after strapping them into their car seats and rolling the vehicle into a lake in ______ in 1994.

A) Texas
B) South Carolina
C) Alabama
D) Florida

Question 9

Which of the following is considered to be a standard narratives used by the media to construct women who commit very serious crimes?

A) good mothers
B) good wives
C) mythical monsters
D) lack of physical attractiveness

Question 10

All of the following are considered to be standard narratives used by the media to construct women who commit very serious crimes except:

A) sexuality and sexual deviance.
B) beauty.
C) bad wives.
D) bad mothers.

Question 11

Which of the following is not considered to be a standard narratives used by the media to construct women who commit very serious crimes?

A) good wives
B) evil manipulators
C) non-agents
D) mad cows

Question 12

Which of the following is not considered to be a standard narratives used by the media to construct women who commit very serious crimes?

A) evil manipulators
B) happy cows
C) sexuality and sexual deviance
D) non-agents

Question 13

______ are frequently punished by the media.

A) Men
B) Children
C) Women
D) The elderly

Question 14

Which of the following are considered non-criminal or status offenses?

A) skipping school
B) perceived sexual misconduct
C) drinking alcohol
D) all of these

Question 15

The courts are excessively punitive toward adult women who deviate from which of the following norms?

A) heterosexual
B) monogamous
C) maternal
D) none of these

Question 16

Ted Bundy's victims were mostly ______ and middle class professional

A) elderly individuals
B) children
C) college students
D) adolescents

Question 17

An anomalous category for women is that of:

A) bad mother.
B) rapist.
C) thief.
D) truant.

Question 18

The "first female serial killer", Aileen Wuornos was convicted by the state of ______.

A) California
B) Florida
C) Texas
D) Alabama

Question 19

Which of the following actors portrayed Aileen Wuornos in a film?

A) Kate Winslet
B) Charlize Theron
C) Sandra Bullock
D) Julia Roberts

Question 20

In 2014, the state of ______ amended its criminal code to recognize the "viable fetus of a human being."

A) Nevada
B) Texas
C) Tennessee
D) Illinois

Question 21

The ______ is another figure of monstrosity invoked in narratives about female killers.

A) vampire
B) muse
C) zombie
D) minotaur

Question 22

Infanticide is a crime that applies to women only, referring to the killing of a child under the age of ______ by its mother when the balance of her mind was disturbed as a result of childbirth.

A) 12 months
B) 24 months
C) 36 months
D) 48 months

Question 23

The word "hysteria" comes from the ______ husterikos, meaning "of the womb."

A) Spanish
B) Latin
C) Greek
D) Norse

Question 24

"Familicide"-or "Family annihilation" as it has been dubbed by the media-is usually carried out by:

A) young White women.
B) middle-aged White women.
C) young White men.
D) middle-age White men.

Question 25

In the ______, some researchers claimed that violent crime was associated with a male chromosome abnormality, dubbed "supermale syndrome."

A) 1940s/1950s
B) 1950s/1960s
C) 1960s/1970s
D) 1970s/1980s

Question 26

The modern media are highly selective in their constructions of offenses, offenders, and victims.

Question 27

Difference is readily constructed as deviance by causal association with crime.

Question 28

In short, men who commit serious offenses are judged to have transgressed two sets of laws: criminal laws and the laws of nature.

Question 29

There is no single "feminist criminology."

Question 30

Feminist perspectives centered largely on criminological theories.

Question 31

Male offenders attract more media and public attention than female offenders.

Question 32

Bad wives are identified as one of the standard narratives used by the media to construct women who commit very serious crimes.

Question 33

Good mothers were identified as a standard narratives used by the media to construct women who commit very serious crimes.

Question 34

The supposed "first female serial killer" was Rose West.

Question 35

Women who kill or who commit other very serious offenses are subjected to intense scrutiny regarding their physical appearance and attractiveness.

Question 36

Youth, figure, and sexuality are aspects of femininity that are valued by the male gaze.

Question 37

Femme fatales ensnare their victims with their good looks but are also warm and friendly.

Question 38

Women, on the other hand, tend to resort to "spousal homicide" as a response to initial violence from their male partner.

Question 39

Two favored figures from Greek mythology who can be viewed as anomalous are Medea and the Minotaur.

Question 40

In general, women are viewed either as big children or as men.

Question 41

How does the Oedipal conflict arise?

Question 42

What is the chivalry hypothesis? Do you believe that this is tried in the modern-day criminal justice system? Why or why not?

Question 43

What are the standard narratives used by the media to construct women who commit very serious crimes?

Question 44

What are the provisions of Senate Bill 1391?

Question 45

What is Munchausen's Syndrome?