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Course Introduction
This course explores the complex relationship between gender and society, examining how gender shapes and is shaped by social, cultural, economic, and political forces. Students will analyze historical and contemporary perspectives on gender roles, identities, and inequalities, with attention to intersections with race, class, sexuality, and other social categories. Through theoretical frameworks and case studies from diverse global contexts, the course encourages critical thinking about the ways gender dynamics influence individual experiences and societal structures, while also addressing movements toward gender equity and social change.
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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) When someone reads the words wrestling, pickup truck, and steak and automatically thinks "man," they are experiencing the effect of
A) gender binary glasses.
B) the gender similarities hypothesis.
C) associative memory.
D) the difference between sex and gender.
Answer: C
Q2) 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
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Chapter 3: Bodies
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Q1) On which of the following traits do men and women exhibit the strongest sexual dimorphism?
A) vertical jumping ability
B) sexual identity and sexual object choice
C) throwing ability
D) visual-spatial abilities
Answer: B
Q2) What are sex-influenced genes?
A) genes that are only expressed if they occur in a male or a female body.
B) genes whose effect depends on whether they occur in a male or a female body.
C) the chromosomal pairs that differentiate genetic females from genetic males.
D) genes that have been connected with observable sex differences
Answer: B
Q3) What do we learn from comparing the degree of sexual dimorphism among humans to that of other species?
A) The human species is not sexually dimorphic.
B) Men and women are far more similar than they are different.
C) Men and women exhibit a moderate degree of sexual dimorphism.
D) The human species is highly sexually dimorphic.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Performance
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Q1) Which of the following best conveys the meaning of the phrase gender rules?
A) that we all have been socialized to fit into masculine and feminine roles
B) culturally specific instructions for how a man or a woman of a certain social status should appear and behave
C) conformity-promoting responses to the violation of the gender binary in particular situations
D) the process by which something becomes coded as masculine or feminine
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following best characterizes gender policing?
A) Policing is malicious and cruel and like other forms of bullying should never be tolerated.
B) Gender policing is not done to high-status people like celebrities and politicians.
C) Gender policing is something we sometimes do to ourselves and our best friends with the best of intentions.
D) Gender policing is harmless because it is often done with jokes and affection.
Answer: C
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Chapter 5: Intersections
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Q1) What is one particular cost black women who employ the Girly Girl gender strategy may face?
A) They may be seen as feminine and beautiful and thus threatening to white women.
B) They may be seen as unattractive, unprofessional, or too manly.
C) They may be seen as sellouts and feel like they are performing whiteness.
D) They may be seen as too black and accused of rejecting mainstream values.
Q2) Describe at least three reasons gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals might adopt an All but Heterosexual gender strategy. Describe some of the potential constraints and opportunities gay African American men, rural lesbians, and French gays and lesbians might face in adopting the All but Heterosexual strategy.
Q3) Compulsory heterosexuality can be defined as
A) the fear and hatred of sexual minorities.
B) a rule that all men be attracted to women and all women be attracted to men.
C) the verses in which the Bible condemns homosexuality.
D) gender conformity that is binary.
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Chapter 6: Inequality, Men and Masculinities
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Q1) What is hegemonic masculinity?
A) The idea that masculinity is inevitable, natural, and desirable.
B) The idea that all men share positive attributes like strength, rationality, and power.
C) An idealized and unattainable notion of a man who embodies all the traits associated with masculinity.
D) Extreme conformity to the more aggressive rules of masculinity.
Q2) 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
Q3) Sociologists Douglas Schrock and Michael Schwalbe say that "the effort to signify a masculine self . . . can be toxic." What do they mean by that? Provide examples from the chapter.
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Chapter 7: Inequality: Women and Femininities
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Q1) All of the following statements describe the strategy of emphatic sameness EXCEPT
A) some women try to downplay the fact that they are female by making their femininity as invisible as possible.
B) men's negative stereotypes of women are strategically used to ensure women's subjugation to men.
C) thinking you are "one of the guys" undermines attempts to empower women as a group.
D) being good friends with men is also a mode of gaining power in a patriarchal society open to women.
Q2) In contemporary American society, men are encouraged to avoid femininity and women are strongly encouraged to embrace both femininity and masculinity. With the help of three examples, explain this phenomenon in your own words.
Q3) Which of the following is evidence of women performing emphasized femininity?
A) Combat positions in the U.S. military have been opened to women.
B) Stay-at-home moms are being committed to performing unpaid work at home.
C) Parents are encouraging their daughters to aspire for traditionally male occupations.
D) Women are teaching men to use makeup to appear more attractive, too.
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Chapter 8: Institutions
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Q1) What is the relationship between policies and norms?
A) Norms are informal, unwritten rules; policies are formal, written rules.
B) Norms are formal, written rules; policies are informal, unwritten rules.
C) Both norms and policies are informal, unwritten rules, but policies have social consequences.
D) Both norms and policies are formal, written rules, but norms are enforced by peers and policies by authorities.
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) What is common to elementary schools, bathrooms, and bodybuilding?
A) They are governed more with gender policies than gender norms.
B) They contribute toward diluting the matrix of domination.
C) They affirm gender difference.
D) They protect the idea that women are equal to men.
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Chapter 9: Change
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Q1) The breadwinner/housewife model did not offer women economic equality because A) the money women earned at home was less than what men earned at work.
B) working-class women and women of color could not legally work in factories, unlike men of these groups who held these industrial jobs.
C) access to a living wage came through men, and the work women did in maintaining a household was no longer recognized as work.
D) men did not really depend on women's cooking, cleaning, shopping, and childcare.
Q2) 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.
Q3) What is sex for? Over the course of American history, people have had different ideas about what sex was for. Using American Indians, the Puritans and Victorians, young people of the 1920s and the 1950s, and Americans today, trace the shifting ideas about the purpose of sex and the cultural and institutional changes that led to those shifts.
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Chapter 10: Sexualities
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Q1) Why are accomplishments a disadvantage for women, but not for men?
A) New gendered imperatives suggest that women should be equal to men.
B) Relative to men, a small proportion of women have accomplishments.
C) For the average man, a woman's accomplishments make him anxious, not excited.
D) Accomplishments are more sexy in women than in men.
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) What does the concept of baby boomers convey?
A) babies who were born in towns that are booming
B) babies who were born in a period of sudden economic growth
C) babies who were born during the Vietnam War and who grew up during the 1960s and 1970s
D) babies who were born after the World War II and who grew up during the 1950s and 1960s
Q4) 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."
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Chapter 11: Families
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Q1) Which of the following is true about the second shift?
A) Single mothers are especially likely to avoid facing this specific challenge of marriage
.
B) It is a gender-neutral problem facing all families, solved strategically in different ways.
C) On average, it disproportionally burdens women.
D) Generally, married couples divide housework between them on the basis of who has more time when the first shift of paid work is over.
Q2) Why could outsourcing be called a patriarchal bargain?
A) It helps migrant communities earn a living doing domestic chores.
B) It has to be negotiated to resist the matrix of domination.
C) It does not liberate women as a group.
D) It helps build transnational care chains that reproduce patriarchy.
Q3) In 2012, the birthrate was the lowest recorded in American history. Give at least three potential explanations for the rise in childlessness in United States. What kind of changes in the division of household labor might reverse or at least stop this downward trend in births?
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Chapter 12: Work
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Q1) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 had which one of the following effects?
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 do overtime
Q3) Are discrimination against women and discrimination against mothers in the job market two separate, important phenomena or just two names for the same thing? Make a case for the similarities and differences that you think matter most and why. Use concepts and empirical evidence from the chapter to shape your answer.
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Chapter 13: Politics
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Q1) Which model of gender equality would be most attractive to women who embrace masculinity?
A) equal access
B) equal value
C) equal sharing
D) equal opportunity
Q2) Equal access policies (like the antidiscrimination policies prominent in the United States) accomplish some things but not others. Which of these is their characteristic shortcoming?
A) Equal access policies do not reduce sexism in employers' decision-making.
B) Equal access policies not do encourage people to value femininity.
C) Equal access policies do not encourage women to seek work in masculine fields.
D) Equal access policies do not apply to women in education.
Q3) Why is raising the minimum wage both a class issue and a feminist issue?
A) Nearly two-thirds of minimum-wage workers are women.
B) Leaving the minimum wage low contributes to the feminization of poverty.
C) Raising the minimum wage would reduce economic inequality between women and men.
D) All of the above.
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