Gender and Communication
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Gender and Communication explores the ways in which gender influences communication practices across a variety of contexts, including interpersonal relationships, organizational settings, media, and cultural discourses. The course examines theories of gender, the social construction of gender roles, and how communication both reflects and shapes these roles. Students analyze the impact of language, nonverbal cues, and media representations on the perception and performance of gender. Through critical discussions and case studies, the course encourages awareness of gendered communication patterns and their implications for equity, power dynamics, and personal and professional interactions.
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Gendered Lives 10th Edition by Julia
T. Wood
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Chapter 1: The Study of Communication, Gender, and Culture
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Q1) Unlike sex,gender is a relational concept.Explain what this means and the implications of it,and give an example that illustrates your point.
Answer: Gender is a relational concept because we can only understand femininity compared and contrasted with masculinity.Likewise,we cannot understand masculinity without the concept of femininity.We socially construct these two to be opposites; for example,if we see masculinity as being about strength,then femininity is seen as weakness.This concept is important because it means that when we change our ideas about one gender,we necessarily change the way we think about another gender.
Q2) Researchers have found that views of gender generally remain consistent over the average person's life-span.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Androgyny
Answer: Coined in the 1970s,androgyny is the combinations of the Greek words aner/andros (man)and gyne (woman).Androgynous people reject rigid sex roles and embody dualities that the culture considers masculine and feminine.For example,an androgynous person may be both strong and sensitive.
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Chapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to Gender Development
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Q1) At age 3,Bonnie realizes she is female and she wants to become skilled at being a girl.She begins to watch her mother and older sister and to model her behaviors after theirs.Bonnie's efforts to learn how to act feminine are best explained by which theory?
A) cognitive development
B) social learning
C) psychodynamic (or psychoanalytic)
D) biological
E) both B & C
Answer: A
Q2) Performative theory says that gender is not real but is just an act we perform.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Social learning theory
Answer: Children learn appropriate behaviors through reinforcement from others.Since children prefer rewards to neutral responses or punishments,they will repeat behaviors reinforced by others as appropriate for their gender.Children are viewed as relatively passive learners.
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Chapter 3: The Rhetorical Shaping of Genderwomens
Movements in America
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Q1) Multiracial feminists argue that gender cannot be understood separate from other issues including race,ethnicity,class,sexual orientation,etc.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) What was/were the goal/s of the first wave of the women's rights movement?
A) Woman suffrage - the right to vote.
B) Women's right to higher education.
C) Women's right to work in the professions.
D) Women's right to own property.
E) All of the above
Answer: E
Q3) Some third-wave feminists embrace sexiness and femininity as part of being empowered.What is your position on this issue? Defend your stance.
Answer: Answers will vary and depend on the student's own justification.Students should demonstrate a clear grasp of third-wave feminism and make an argument.Make sure to see that their argument is logical (rather than that you agree with it).
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Chapter 4: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gendermens
Movements in America
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Q1) You have a friend who is interested in exploring issues of spirituality and masculinity.He wants to know what it means to be a good man in U.S.society.Based on the principles of the Promise Keepers and the Million Man March,what would you tell him? Make sure your answer includes similarities and differences between the two movements' values,goals,principles,and membership demographics.Finally,make sure you note some of the criticisms of the movements and update him on what is happening with these two organizations now.
Q2) Which of the following is/are true about men's movements?
A) All men's movements reject feminist insights
B) American men's participation in men's movements is greater than American women's participation in women's movements.
C) Men's movements often arise in response to particular branches of women's movements.
D) Although diverse, men's movements share a fundamental ideology.
E) Men's movements are mostly a thing of the past.
Q3) Men's rights activist
Q4) Men's movements exist to oppose women's rights.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Gendered Verbal Communication
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Q1) Misinterpretations between people who are socialized into masculine speech communities and people who are socialized into feminine speech communities occur around the issue of storytelling because
A) feminine speakers want a matching of experience and masculine speakers give advice
B) feminine speakers find masculine speaker's storytelling to be wandering and unfocused
C) feminine speakers think masculine speaker's storytelling misses important details
D) feminine speakers are trying to make a point and masculine speakers try to upstage them
E) all of the above
Q2) Minimal response cues
Q3) Spotlighting
Q4) When home on break,you hear a friend use male-generic language.When you tell your friend it is sexist,your friend wants to know why.Based on what you have learned in this class,how might you explain to your friend that using such language is problematic?
Q5) Male generic language
Q6) Gender-linked language effect
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Chapter 6: Gendered Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) Proxemics
Q2) Verbal communication conveys the majority of the total meaning during an interaction.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements about haptics are accurate?
A) Men are more likely to initiate friendly touch than women are.
B) Those with more power have more freedom to touch others than those in lower positions of power
C) Touch is a type of nonverbal that does not differ much at all across cultures.
D) Women tend to be more likely to use physical force than men.
E) Haptics is a type of nonverbal communication that includes how much space a person uses.
Q4) Paralanguage
Q5) Women are generally better at reading anger in the faces of others than are men. A)True
B)False
Q6) Explain which nonverbal behaviors may be employed to exert power and control and examine the link to gender.
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Chapter 7: Becoming Gendered: The Early Years
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Q1) Men cannot develop permeable ego boundaries because of their socialization.
A)True
B)False
Q2) "Anatomy is destiny"
Q3) Which of the following is true,according to psychodynamic theory?
A) Children of both sexes usually form their first identification with an adult woman.
B) Boys identify more closely with their fathers than girls identify with their mothers.
C) For a girl to fully form her identity, she must repress her original identification with her mother.
D) At around the age of one year, male and female development diverges dramatically.
E) All of the above
Q4) Social Aggression
Q5) Contemporary fathers are far more involved in their children's lives than were fathers of previous generations.Based on the ideas discussed in chapter seven,reflect on the implications this might have on the gender development of contemporary children.
Q6) Identification
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Chapter 8: Gendered Education Communication in Schools
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Q1) Girls face less pressure to conform to feminine socialization than boys do to conform to masculine socialization.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Culture of romance
Q3) Same-sex schools provide some benefits that are appealing to many students,parents,and educators.However,same-sex schools present issues for trans-people that non-gender queer people do not confront.Note three potential problems that trans-people face at same-sex schools that others do not.Then,propose a potential solution to one of those problems.
Q4) Which of the following is true about Title IX?
A) All U.S. schools must abide by the rules of Title IX.
B) Title IX has led to a decrease in athletic programs for men.
C) Title IX bans sex discrimination only in athletics.
D) Most American approve of Title IX.
E) Because of Title IX, male and female student athletes receive an equal number of scholarship dollars.
Q5) Effortless perfection
Q6) Title IX
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Chapter 9: Gendered Close Relationships
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Q1) Kim surveyed her friends and found that,although her male and female friends both said that they made efforts to show others that they care for them,male friends were more likely to show caring through doing something for or with the person than to share a personal disclosure.Kim concluded that both males and females care,but they may show that in different ways.Kim's results confirm which theory?
A) Male deficit model
B) Alternate paths model
C) Ego boundaries theory
D) Bonding rituals
E) Relational dialectics
Q2) Which of the following are features of feminine (often female)friendships.
A) They often contain covert intimacy.
B) Doing activities together is the primary way to build closeness.
C) The friends do things for each other to show that they care.
D) They are less likely than men's friendships to last if one friend moves away.
E) None of the above
Q3) Reflect on a non-romantic,close,same-sex friendship.In what ways does your friendship match or deviate patterns of friendships described in the book?
Q4) Covert intimacy
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Chapter 10: Gendered Organizational Communication
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Q1) ____ are policies that judge effectiveness based on intention rather than results.
A) Affirmative action
B) Quotas
C) Equal opportunity laws
D) Informal networks
E) All of the above
Q2) Affirmative action laws ____.
A) attempt to redress past discrimination for members of historically marginalized groups
B) apply only to individuals, not groups that have experienced discrimination
C) judge organizations by the intent of their hiring, admission, and promotion practices rather than end results
D) sometimes result in unqualified candidates being hired, admitted, or promoted
E) mandate a number of people that must be hired, admitted, or promoted at an organization
Q3) Glass ceilings
Q4) Maternal wall
Q5) Equal opportunity laws
Q6) Goals
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Chapter 11: Gendered Media
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Q1) Discuss three ways in which news media,including cable and network television news,magazines,and newspapers,promote stereotypical views of women and femininity and provide concrete examples to support your points.
Q2) Gatekeeper
Q3) Research has shown that if you are educated about and are aware of the impact,media will have little or no influence on you.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Pathologizing the human body
Q5) Advertisements ____ than other media.
A) contain less gendered messages
B) are less pervasive
C) are less effective
D) contain more gendered messages
E) are often more powerful
Q6) How do media motivate us to consume,and why is this significant in terms of gender? Use examples to make your point.
Q7) Mommy track
Q8) Media saturation
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Chapter 12: Gendered Power and Violence
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Q1) Cycle of abuse
Q2) Pornography
Q3) Hostile environment
Q4) Rape culture
Q5) Genital mutilation does not occur in the United States. A)True B)False
Q6) Quid pro quo
Q7) Infibulation
Q8) Sexual harassment
Q9) What is the definition of rape in our state? What assumptions does this definition make?
Q10) The majority of men are not violent toward women. A)True B)False
Q11) "Corrective" rape
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Chapter 13: Epilogue-looking Backward, Looking Forward
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Q1) Identify one issue you consider especially important in the ongoing cultural conversation about gender.Explain why you regard this issue as particularly pivotal now and how different resolutions of it might affect social life.
Q2) Class discussions and the textbook have emphasized this point: gender is constructed.Explain what it means to claim that gender is constructed.Your response should define gender and describe HOW gender is constructed and how it is changed over time.In addition,your response should discuss what viewing gender as a social construction implies for individual action and agency.Include specific examples of how gender is constructed,reproduced,and changed.
Q3) Queer performative theory argues that gender is performed; at the same time,gender performances are enacted within a context that defines the possibilities that exist and what gender means.Reflect on an instance of gender performance that you think may broaden gender norms and discuss how this performance works with cultural norms to push gender boundaries.This gender performance may be real (Lady Gaga comes to mind)or hypothetical.
Q4) Gatekeepers
Q5) Voice
Q6) "Salad bowl" metaphor
Q7) Direct power
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Chapter 14: Introduction: Opening the Conversation
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Q1) If everyone could become aware of gender inequality,it would no longer exist.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Explain what the author of Gendered Lives means when she writes that privilege and disadvantage are unearned.
Q3) Terms such as "spouse," "husband," "wife," and "marriage" are inclusive of all people.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Sexism is the fault of men.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Inclusive language
Q6) Feminism
Q7) Because our perspectives are limited by our social positions (e.g.,sex,class,race,sexual orientation)we can never fully understand the lives of people who differ from us.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Socially constructed
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