Week Seven Reading Questions Roberts &quot;From Norplant to Contraceptive Vaccine&quot; 1) What is Norplant and how does it work? What are some side effects associated with its use? 2) What are the consequences of giving incentives to women who use Norplant and why does Roberts see this as a problem? 3) Why won't Norplant solve the problem of teen pregnancy? 4) How do notions of reproductive freedom that are usually associated with new methods of birth control play out differently when examined in terms of race and class? Ehrenreich &quot;What <a href="/keyword/abu-ghraib/" >abu ghraib</a> Taught Me&quot; 1) What did <a href="/keyword/abu-ghraib/" >abu ghraib</a> teach Ehrenreich? Just because one is a women doesn't make her morally superior to men. 2) How does an event like this change the way we see women and femininity? Society views women as soft and caring, and it diminishes that view by showing that like men, they can be barbaric. 3) In what ways does <a href="/keyword/abu-ghraib/" >abu ghraib</a> challenge the goals of a representative type of gender equality? It challenges gender equality in that it is saying that women want to behave as men would behave like a &quot;beast.&quot; It also shows that having the ability to join a man's institution only has women assimilate into what a man would do, as opposed to completely reform it. Navarro &quot;Clearly, Frankly, Unabashedly Disabled&quot; 1) How have representations of disabled people changed in the passed few years? Instead of &quot;people...looking at disability as &quot;total tragedy,&quot; it has become more accepted as it has appeared more in the media, especially as it &quot;drive[s] to expand beyond the stereotypes&quot; which is &quot;particularly visible on television.&quot; 2) What is the relationship between media representations of disable people and identity? As more people with disabilities receive exposure, it has created a wider acceptance of those with disabilities. Thus it leads those who possess them to want to &quot;be treated as people who happen to have a disability, rather than as people defined by disability.&quot; Wann &quot;Fat Studies&quot; 1) How does Wann propose that we view weight differences within the population? &quot;Weight, like height, is a human characteristic that varies across any population in a normal distribution pattern.&quot; Also varies over the course of a lifetime, which is usually inherited through genes. 2) What is the goal of fat studies? &quot;Make a unique contribution as a theoretical and analytic undertaking&quot; &quot;and also to provide much needed momentum and moral suasion for social justice for people of all sizes. 3) In what ways are labels like &quot;obese&quot; socially constructed? The term is used to classify those who fit into a certain weight, and separate them accordingly. Goes back to how people classify for a sense of control. 4) According to Wann, what are some of the dangers or disadvantages of being fat? &quot;Fat students experience ostracism, discouragement, sometimes violence.&quot; &quot;Fat students develop low self-esteem and have limited horizons. pp. 392-396