Feminist Theory Exam Questions
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Introduction
Feminist Theory explores the diverse and evolving frameworks that analyze gender, power relations, and social structures through a feminist lens. This course examines foundational and contemporary texts, focusing on intersectionality, critiques of patriarchy, and the ways in which feminism interacts with race, class, sexuality, and global perspectives. Students will engage with influential theorists, assess the impact of feminist thought on various academic disciplines, and develop critical skills to question social norms, advocating for equity and social justice in both personal and societal contexts.
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Gender Ideas Interactions Institutions 2nd Edition by Lisa
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Chapter 1: Ideas
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Q1) What does it mean to say that gender is a social construct?
A)Gender arises from biological differences between males and females.
B)Gender arises from both biological and social differences between males and females.
C)Gender has no set meaning or understanding in society.The terms "masculine" and "feminine" are very ambiguous,and their use leads to confusion among members of society.
D)Gender is understood through shared interpretations and meaning.The terms "masculine" and "feminine" are easily understood and shared by members of a society.
Answer: D
Q2) How do people with intersex bodies provide evidence that the gender binary fails to describe reality?
A)They have chromosomes that do not match either XX or XY.
B)Their gender identities do not match their perceived sex.
C)Their gender identities always match their perceived sex.
D)They have chromosomes that match either XX or XY.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Bodies
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Q1) Using an example of an observed sex difference,compare a naturalist and a culturalist explanation of the difference.What are the limitations of each perspective,and what is a stronger alternative explanation?
Answer: Students can give a variety of responses for the sex difference.A naturalist response will focus upon how biology produced the difference,while a culturalist response will focus upon how only learning and socialization produced the response.A better explanation is a biocultural interaction response: Our bodies respond to our cultural environments,and vice versa.
Q2) What is brain plasticity?
A)the different composition of men's and women's brains
B)the brain's lifelong ability to respond to its environment
C)the inherent strengths and weaknesses of men's and women's brains
D)the importance of environment over hormones in determining brain structure
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Performances
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Q1) Why are guys who dress up like women at Halloween unlikely to be victims of hate crimes?
A)Dressing up like a woman for Halloween is highly encouraged by society.
B)The guys can use Halloween to account for their behavior.
C)Guys dressed up like women on Halloween are so masculine that they would never fool anyone.
D)They are following the gender rules that apply on Halloween.
Answer: B
Q2) Many women enjoy dressing up,dancing,and flirting at a club.This is an example of
A)how gender rules become internalized as habits.
B)how gender rules in the United States are unfair to women.
C)how gender rules reflect biological predispositions.
D)how following gender rules can be a source of pleasure.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Intersections
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of a Gentle Black Man strategy?
A)watching movies with friends and earning average grades
B)whistling classical music while walking down the street at night
C)excelling in sports and earning high grades
D)playing World of Warcraft and wearing black clothes
Q2) If a lesbian woman who moved to France from the United States conformed to French expectations,she would
A)accentuate her lesbian identity more.
B)accentuate her lesbian identity less.
C)emphasize her race-gender intersectionality because it is more acceptable to be an immigrant than queer in France.
D)adopt a Butch lesbian identity and emphasize her masculinity.
Q3) Daniel is attracted to men and has a male partner.He is an avid football fan,and he exudes physical strength and toughness.What strategy is Daniel using?
A)heteronormativity
B)homonormativity
C)compulsory heterosexuality
D)compulsory homosexuality
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Chapter 5: Inequality: Men and Masculinities
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Q1) Mary believes that hybrid masculinities will lead to a more gender-equal society.Is Mary right to be so optimistic?
A)yes,because hybrid masculinities challenge the underlying unequal relationships between men and women
B)yes,because hybrid masculinities have been used to place women at the top of gender hierarchies
C)no,because there are very few,if any,men who enact hybrid masculinities
D)no,because hybrid masculinities are largely symbolic and do not seek to alter the underlying relationships between men and women
Q2) At Clear Horizons High School,last year was the first year they had more female musicians than male musicians in the jazz orchestra.Although Luis had dreamed of playing in the orchestra,he has decided he no longer wants to audition.What is Luis demonstrating?
A)compensatory masculinity
B)exculpatory chauvinism
C)hegemonic masculinity
D)male flight
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Chapter 6: Inequality: Women and Femininities
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Q1) While documenting parents' nervousness about their son's performance of femininity,the sociologist Emily Kane found that
A)parents weren't nervous about daughters' femininity.Instead,they highly encouraged their daughters to be as feminine as possible.
B)parents discouraged their daughters from being feminine,as they associated it with being weak and undervalued.
C)parents didn't have the same nervousness with a daughter's performance of masculinity as they did with a son's performance of femininity because masculine activities are valued.
D)parents were also deeply troubled by their daughters' gender-nonconforming behavior and strongly discouraged any interests in masculine toys and activities.
Q2) Both women and men are constrained by the binary gender system.How do the constraints they face differ systematically? Whose constraints do you find more unfair? Make sure to provide detailed reasoning to justify your conclusion.
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Chapter 7: Institutions
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Q1) Victorian gender ideology held that women were
A)in need of medical attention rather than restrooms to cure feminine maladies.
B)more fragile than men and less suited to working for pay.
C)in a position to withstand more physical strain than men so long as they were in the home.
D)more loyal to their work than men in a factory.
Q2) Wade and Ferree argue that gender is never the most logical way to organize a sport.Choose a sport that they do not discuss and consider their claim.Brainstorm a list of other variables on which athletes in this sport could reasonably be divided.Choose the one you think makes the most sense and play out the scenario.How do you think this sport would change? How would life change for the athletes? The fans? The sponsors? What ideology of gender,if any,would the sport now support?
Q3) According to sociologist Abigail Feder,which figure skater would be the most valued?
A)the male figure skater who looks serene and handsome
B)the male figure skater who make his jumps look effortless
C)the female figure skater who appears powerful and aggressive
D)the female figure skater who disguises her athleticism
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Chapter 8: Change
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Q1) Feminists in the 1960s and 1970s contributed to changing the rules of marriage by
A)emphasizing that women and men were jointly responsible for housework and had to negotiate who would do what.
B)insisting that every woman should be employed full time for her entire adult life,regardless of whether she had children.
C)claiming that women who were sexually active should be legally entitled to avoid pregnancy regardless of whether they were married.
D)suggesting that men and women hyphenate their two last names after marriage to symbolize the equal partnership that should exist between them.
Q2) Zoey has found her grandmother's dairy from when she attended college in the 1920s.In multiple entries,Zoey's grandmother describes female classmates for whom she has same-sex crushes.These diary entries are good examples of which term?
A)gendered love
B)sexual binary
C)smashing
D)treating
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Chapter 9: Sexualities
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Q1) Bystander intervention programs on college campuses are effective in reducing rates of sexual violence,because
A)they teach both men and women how to safely intervene in specific situations.
B)they empower the entire college community to just say no to rape culture.
C)they teach that standing by is safer than intervening.
D)they teach women to always have a buddy with her for safety in numbers.
Q2) What is the politics of respectability?
A)the rule that contemporary Americans display tolerance to racial and sexual minorities
B)a cultural script for men that prescribes respect for women's sexuality
C)a form of resistance to negative racial stereotypes that involves following conservative norms of appearance and behavior
D)a cultural script that identifies white men and women as deserving of respect
Q3) Based on data from OKCupid,how do age,race,class,and gender intersect to play a role in the erotic marketplace? Discuss at least two of the wider social implications of this differential "marketability."
Q4) Is the orgasm gap an outcome of natural biological differences between men and women? Why or why not?
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Chapter 10: Families
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Q1) Since 1950,voluntary unmarried motherhood has increased because
A)divorce rates have increased.
B)having a child out of wedlock has become less stigmatized.
C)parenting is more rewarding than marriage.
D)women want to challenge the ideology of intensive motherhood.
Q2) Marcus strongly supports his wife's desire to work,but he also expects her to be in charge of all caretaking duties and the running of their household.Marcus is a good example of
A)a dual nurturer.
B)an egalitarian.
C)a neo-traditionalist.
D)a traditionalist.
Q3) The textbook authors label work and family as "greedy institutions" because A)both are expensive.
B)both are designed in ways that enhance national gross domestic product (GDP)for the good of the country.
C)both make gendered demands for a great deal of an individual's time and energy.
D)both preserve the androcentric organization of economy.
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Chapter 11: Work
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Q1) How did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 impact the airline industry?
A)It ended marriage bans that had been applied to female airline workers,but only after court cases brought by the flight attendants.
B)It immediately forced the airlines to discontinue marriage bans and appearance rules.
C)It ended gender discrimination by airlines for all jobs,but only after the airlines started losing money.
D)It allowed women to be given preference over men as flight attendants,but barred discrimination against women pilots.
Q2) Among the following,which would be the best example of emotion work?
A)getting a drunk client to sit down without a fuss
B)sitting up all night with your sick two-year-old child
C)ignoring the coworkers who are abusive to you
D)not complaining when you have to work overtime
Q3) "Fly Me" was a 1970s National Airlines advertising campaign that
A)implied that flying was a thrill-seeking,masculine adventure.
B)sexually objectified flight attendants.
C)valued women and the role they played in the airline industry.
D)highlighted the importance of air travel for men in business.
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Chapter 12: Politics
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Q1) Which country was the first to grant women the right to vote in 1893?
A)New Zealand
B)United States
C)South Africa
D)France
Q2) Fiona believes that feminism should be more intersectionally inclusive,and she is a strong proponent of decentralized movements to advance feminist causes.Fiona is a good example of a __________ feminist.
A)first-wave
B)second-wave
C)third-wave
D)new-wave
Q3) 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.
Q4) 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.
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