Feminist Theory
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Course Introduction
Feminist Theory examines the social, political, and cultural constructions of gender, focusing on the ways in which power dynamics and inequalities shape the experiences of women and other marginalized genders. This course explores key texts and theoretical frameworks within feminist thought, tracing its historical developments from early, second-wave, and third-wave feminism to intersectional, postcolonial, and queer feminist perspectives. Students will analyze how feminist theorists critique traditional systems of knowledge, challenge normative assumptions about identity and embodiment, and advocate for social transformation. Through critical readings, discussions, and written assignments, the course encourages a nuanced understanding of gender justice and its intersections with race, class, sexuality, and global contexts.
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Gender Ideas Interactions Institutions 1st Edition by Lisa Wade
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Chapter 2: Ideas
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Q1) How does our associative memory work to make the gender binary seem more real than it is?
A) We constantly overlook, forget, or misremember any exceptions to the gender binary.
B) We recall gender stereotypes during childhood only, but misremember experiences in later years.
C) We tend to better remember bodies that are stereotype-inconsistent with the gender binary.
D) All of the above.
Answer: A
Q2) The word gender refers to
A) biological differences in primary and secondary sexual characteristics.
B) the symbolism of masculinity and femininity that we connect to being male or female.
C) the fact that the shape of our body may not extend to how a person feels or acts.
D) the primary way we naturalize and justify inequality.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Bodies
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Q1) Researchers have observed differences in the visual-spatial abilities of men and women, such as in performing the task of mental rotation. What is the most plausible cause of such differences?
A) Cognitive skills are best explained by hormone levels. Men have higher levels of testosterone than women.
B) Cognitive skills correspond with the right side of the brain. Men and women tend to use different sides of their brains.
C) Cognitive skills are shaped by evolution. Through gender-specific practices, men's brains have evolved differently than women's.
D) Cognitive skills are affected by instruction and practice. Men are more likely than women to engage in activities that develop the skill of mental rotation.
Answer: D
Q2) What are hormonal feedback loops?
A) ways to shift hormone levels with medicine
B) the occurrence of both androgens and estrogens in men and women
C) the body's hormonal response to stimuli
D) the different parenting abilities of men and women
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Performance
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Q1) Around age six, children become very concerned with doing gender correctly. What does this rigidity tell us about gender norms?
A) It is strong evidence that there is a biological predisposition toward binary male and female identities.
B) They are learning that gender rules are important, but haven't yet figured out whether and how to break them.
C) It is strong evidence that early childhood socialization is the most powerful force shaping adult gender roles.
D) It is a symptom of non-egalitarian parenting.
Answer: B
Q2) According to the authors of your textbook, American men usually don't deliberate about whether to pee sitting down or standing up. This is an example of
A) how gender rules become internalized as habits.
B) how gender rules are learned over an entire lifetime .
C) how gender rules in the United States are unfair to women.
D) how following gender rules can be a source of pleasure.
Answer: A
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Chapter 5: Intersections
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Q1) In your own words, describe each of the following gender strategies: Career Woman, Wonderful Wife and Mother, Supermom, Breadwinner, Superdad, and Blue-Collar Guy. For each strategy explain (a) what conditions and opportunities make it more likely that women or men will choose one of these strategies over the others, and (b) why choosing each strategy might be harmful for some women or men ?
Q2) What is one example of how gendered rules apply differently to men and women as they age?
A) Women face ageism everywhere, while men do not.
B) Men have two options for looking attractive: young boy or adult man, while women have only one option: young girl.
C) Women are pushed to age gracefully and rewarded more than men if they do.
D) Older women who become Career Women are exempt from being judged on attractiveness, while older Gentlemen are still assessed for how good-looking they are.
Q3) Which of the following is an example of a Gentle Black Man strategy?
A) playing video games with friends and earning average grades
B) wearing khakis and button-down shirts to the grocery store
C) excelling in sports and earning high grades
D) playing World of Warcraft and wearing black clothes
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Chapter 6: Inequality, Men and Masculinities
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Q1) Which of the following groups are considered to be members of subordinated masculinities in the United States?
A) nerds, dorks, and geeks
B) older men, disabled men, and gays
C) poor men and nonwhite men
D) all of the above
Q2) What is hegemonic masculinity? What makes it unattainable in practice? If it can't be real, what social purposes does this idea serve? Why would men uphold it, even at the price of their own subordination?
Q3) What is sexism?
A) regarding masculine traits and activities as more important and valuable than women's
B) the routine positioning of women as men's helpers and dependents
C) the legal control of female and younger male family members by select adult men.
D) prejudice and discrimination against people based on their perceived biological sex
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Chapter 7: Inequality: Women and Femininities
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Q1) According to their statements, George Sodini and Elliot Roger engaged in mass killing of women because
A) they thought that women should be less sexually promiscuous.
B) they succumbed to peer pressure.
C) they considered themselves as inferior to women.
D) they had a sense of entitlement to sex and affection from women and got aggressive when they did not get this response.
Q2) According to philosopher Sandra Lee Bartky, feminine ways of using the body can be described as
A) a language of subordination.
B) an embodiment of the potential for both men and women to be graceful.
C) naturally maternal, since female bodies are designed to attract sex, nourish babies, and give comfort.
D) a way of signaling her age.
Q3) Why do the authors call benevolent sexism and hostile sexism Plan A and Plan B. respectively, as strategies to ensure women's subordination?
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Chapter 8: Institutions
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Q1) Gendered institutional practices are
A) based on many people's independent ideas about gender.
B) natural and inevitable.
C) governed by feminist ideas in the United States.
D) different across cultures and throughout time.
Q2) The failure of efforts to install gender-neutral bathrooms in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University is an illustration that indicates
A) the importance of winning support from transgender faculty staff members.
B) that gender-neutral bathrooms aren't a feasible option.
C) that changing institutions requires widespread support and compliance.
D) the impact of discriminatory behavior by the building commissioner.
Q3) Gendered institutions are interesting from a sociological point of view because A) they help challenge the gender binary system.
B) they affirm and enforce gender difference and inequality.
C) they systematically work toward the goal of a free citizenry.
D) they fail to provide a framework which makes it possible for women to make rational decisions about their careers.
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Chapter 9: Change
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Q1) How is female prostitution related to early capitalism?
A) Early capitalism made it easier to buy and sell sex on the market.
B) Prostitution was a means of economic survival for poor women.
C) Capitalism inspired perverse inclinations in men.
D) Early capitalism created a double standard of morality for male sexual behavior.
Q2) Which of the following statements best defines a partnership marriage?
A) Women and men have equal legal rights and obligations and base their relationship on companionship.
B) A marriage that is based on civil union laws instead of marriage laws.
C) It requires one man and one woman to commit to each other as partners for life.
D) Women and men commit to dividing their paid and unpaid labor exactly equally.
Q3) Which of the following characterized the 1950s?
A) Divorce rates increased.
B) The age for marriage and motherhood rose.
C) Fertility rates remained steady.
D) The education gap between women and men increased sharply.
Q4) Marriage has been socially organized under three models. Explain each model, the reasons they emerged, and why they fell apart.
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Chapter 10: Sexualities
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Q1) In contemporary college hookup culture, which of the following is true?
A) Men neglect women's orgasms in general.
B) Men neglect women's orgasms in hookups.
C) Men prioritize women's orgasms in hookups.
D) Women prioritize their own orgasms.
Q2) What is the sexual script?
A) specific rules that guide homosexual sexual performances
B) images designed to appeal to a hypothetical heterosexual man
C) rules that objectify others as sexually attractive
D) institutionalized rules for sexual interactions
Q3) How do gender and age intersect in the erotic marketplace?
A) As women get older, they prefer younger men, just like men prefer younger women.
B) The average man prefers to date a women who is younger; the average woman reports the opposite preference.
C) The average man prefers to date women who are younger, but as they get older the age gap he prefers shrinks.
D) Age is conflated with ugliness; this is equally true for men and women, so as they age their erotic value approaches zero.
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Chapter 11: Families
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Q1) The ideology of intensive motherhood is reflected in all of the following relationships EXCEPT
A) mothers feel they should never allow anyone else to be an emotionally significant caretaker of their children.
B) child rearing today involves extreme investments of time, energy, and material resources only from the mothers who can afford to stay home full time.
C) maximizing children's educational and career achievement is a mother's primary goal.
D) more personal investment in doing childcare than in housework, especially among upper and upper-middle class mothers who can afford some domestic outsourcing.
Q2) Why do so many wealthy white wives support the ideology of intensive mothering?
A) They want to preserve their social standing by defining their work as valuable.
B) They believe in biological differences emerging in early childhood.
C) The commodification of baby products was enhanced by their position in capitalism.
D) They want to contest the demands of greedy institutions like work and family.
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Chapter 12: Work
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Q1) What does the concept Androcentric Pay Scale refer to?
A) the idea that business women need to act more like men in order earn equal pay
B) the correlation between average wages and the average gender composition of a job
C) the unwillingness of employers to pay women to do the most demanding jobs
D) the gender wage gap between men and women within the same occupation (different pay for equal work)
Q2) Mothers are expected by employers to underperform at their workplace in comparison to non-mothers, and treated accordingly. This situation is best described as A) the mommy track.
B) the ideal worker norm.
C) intensive mothering.
D) the second shift.
Q3) Fly Me" was a 1970s National Airlines' advertising campaign that
A) implied flight attendants were rewards for business travelers.
B) sexually objectified flight attendants.
C) was similar to how other airlines also advertised themselves.
D) All of the above.
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Chapter 13: Politics
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Q1) In what ways does women's presence in politics disrupt inequality?
A) It disrupts andocentrism, but not sexism.
B) It disrupts subordination, sexism, and androcentrism.
C) It disrupts sexism, but not androcentrism.
D) It disrupts subordination and sexism, but not androcentrism.
Q2) Compared to the baby boomer generation, fewer young people today use the word feminist to describe themselves. One reason for this phenomenon is
A) most young people are anti-feminist.
B) corporations are using feminist messages in marketing campaigns.
C) anti-feminist countermovements have succeeded in defining the meaning of the term.
D) women's movements have become too autonomous for most people's tastes.
Q3) Give concrete examples of three of the obstacles that contemporary feminists face. Discuss what it might take to overcome these obstacles and create more opportunities for feminist activism.
Q4) There are three main approaches to gender equality: equal access, equal value, and equal sharing. Compare and contrast the benefits and drawbacks of each of these approaches. Describe what a feminist in each different approach might say a feminist utopia would look like.
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