Though Radical Feminism's Separatism Can Certainly Help Survivors of Rape

question 27

Multiple Choice

Though radical feminism's separatism can certainly help survivors of rape, domestic abuse, or intimate partner violence, many separatist organizations struggle and/or ultimately disintegrate. Based on your knowledge of organizational communication and Mumby's description of separatist organizations, how might you best explain this phenomenon?

• A) From an organizational culture perspective, separatist organizations probably have root metaphor conflict issues because they are separate from the rest of society.
• B) From an organizational culture perspective, separatist organizations probably do not have enough shared symbols and to develop a strong and cohesive culture.
• C) From a systems perspective, separatist organizations become too "closed" and cannot adequately adapt and build interdependent with other organizations.
• D) From a systems perspective, separatist organizations suffer entropy because the concept of multifinality means that there are many non-separatist ways of fulfilling the same goals.

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Definitions:

Freudian Slips

Mistakes in speech that are theorized to unconsciously reveal something hidden in the speaker's mind, according to psychoanalytic theory.

Hypnosis

A trance-like state of focused attention, reduced peripheral awareness, and increased responsiveness to suggestion, often used for therapeutic purposes.

Topographic Model

Freud’s original model of personality structure, in which personality is divided into three different levels of awareness.

Preconscious

In Freud’s topographic model, the part of personality that contains thoughts that can be brought into awareness with little difficulty.