Assignment due 3/18/08

Articles 29-31

 

Multiple Choice

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

 

____    1.    By using the term sex worker, the author hopes to convey prostitution as:

a.	an illegitimate work option with few benefits.
b.	an immoral work option with far reaching consequences.
c.	an income generating activity or form of labor for women and men.
d.	none of the above.

 

 

____    2.    The concept of sex work emerged in the 1970s through the prostitutes':

a.	collective community organizations.
b.	rights movement in the United States and Western Europe.
c.	civil rights movement.
d.	individual rights movement.

 

 

____    3.    The idea of the sex worker is inextricably related to struggles for the recognition of:

a.	women's work, for basic human rights and for decent working conditions.
b.	women's work , individuality and self-identity.
c.	women's work, family and career.
d.	none of the above

 

 

____    4.    According to Kamala Kempadoo, sex workers in Third World and other non-western countries have been busy, taking action by:

a.	demanding fair and just treatment for themselves and their families.
b.	demonstrating against injustices they face, and demanding human, civil, political and social rights.
c.	joining with western sex workers to form coalitions against injustices.
d.	created networks which are beneficial to all sex workers, worldwide.

 

 

____    5.    According to Cornell West, what causes much of black self-hatred and self-contempt, with regard to black sexuality?

a.	Many black Americans refuse to love their own bodies.
b.	Many black Americans are not sexually charged.
c.	It is socially unacceptable to talk about sex in the black community.
d.	all of the above

 

 

____    6.    According to Cornell West, most social scientists that examine race relations do so with little or no reference to how ____influence racial matters.

a.	false perceptions
b.	sexual perceptions
c.	racist perceptions
d.	biased perceptions

 

 

Essay

 

    7.    What does Cornell mean by the Afro-Americanization of white youth?

 

    8.    Discuss the differences, as Cornell West views it, between black male and black female sexuality.

 

    9.    For Katz, what is the significance of tracing the historical process of the concept of heterosexuality?