Gender, Power, and Society Pre-Test Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores how gender shapes and is shaped by power dynamics within social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, students analyze how gender intersects with other identity categories such as race, class, and sexuality, influencing access to resources, opportunities, and experiences. The course examines historical and contemporary debates around gender roles, social justice, and policy, while encouraging critical reflection on the ways gendered power structures influence daily life and broader societal change. Through readings, discussions, and case studies, students gain tools to critically engage with issues of gender, power, and inequality in various societal institutions.
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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) 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
Q2) Which of the following concepts describes the capacity to assume that we are unique by reconciling our own complex identity with what is known about men and women?
A) gender binary
B) gender ideology
C) the personal exception theory of gender
D) gender identity
Answer: C
Q3) If the gender binary doesn't describe a large number of the people we know, where does the idea come from?
Answer: Answers will vary.
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Chapter 3: Bodies
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Q1) A genetic female has two X chromosomes, whereas a genetic male has both an X chromosome and a Y chromosome. Which of the following statements best describes the effect of chromosomes on sex differences?
A) The Y chromosome is the source of most sex differences.
B) Sex differences are mostly connected to whether a person has one or two X chromosomes.
C) A link between chromosomes and sex differences is yet to be established.
D) Chromosomes have no effect since both men and women have only one functioning X chromosome.
Answer: B
Q2) What is meant by the idea that many biological characteristics are mutable?
A) They are responsive to external influences.
B) Biological sex differences evolve over many generations.
C) The primary biological characteristics that differentiate men and women have changed over time.
D) Biological sex differences have been found to have no scientific basis. Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Performance
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Q1) Which of the following best describes how gender rules work?
A) Gender rules allow for few exceptions and usually carry serious penalties when they are broken.
B) People who strictly follow a single set of unambiguous gender rules are usually considered the ideal man or woman of their society.
C) We stop doing gender whenever we break gender rules.
D) Sometimes we break gender rules because it is impossible to follow them, no matter how hard we try.
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following statements is TRUE of gender policing?
A) Gender policing is only problematic when it is done violently.
B) Gender policing is less influential if it comes from someone you care for (like your girlfriend or boyfriend).
C) We can´t gender police ourselves, so we gender police others.
D) We gender police ourselves and others, and even recruit others to help us police ourselves.
Answer: D
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Chapter 5: Intersections
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Q1) What kinds of challenges do women and men with physical disabilities face in designing strategies with which to do gender? Are the strategies that are open to them differently available to women and men? To women and men of different race or class statuses? To women and men living in different kinds of urban/rural locations or family structures? Pick one intersectional situation to put in the center and compare the strategies of disabled people with at least three different life situations to this "reference person."
Q2) Your textbook authors argue that we are complicated individuals with unique and multi-layered identities. What term describes this perspective?
A) gender binary
B) intersectionality
C) gender identity
D) social construction
Q3) What conditions make it more likely that a woman will adopt a Supermom gender strategy?
A) She is married to a man with a high-paying job and loses her job.
B) She is the CEO of a tech company and her husband is a stay-at-home dad.
C) She is a single mother and works as a teacher at the local school.
D) She is an award-winning doctor and has a full-time nanny.
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Chapter 6: Inequality, Men and Masculinities
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Q1) 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
Q2) According to the authors of your textbook, why might men who rank low in the masculine hierarchy still defend hegemonic masculinity?
A) Because being a girl is bad, but being a girly man (or boy) is worse.
B) Because they value hypermasculinity.
C) Because it assures them that they're superior to women.
D) Because they want to exert power over others if they possibly can.
Q3) According to researcher Michael Kaufman, "Within each group, men usually have privileges and power relative to the women in that group, but in society as a whole, things are not always so straightforward." Explain this statement and provide examples to support your explanation. Show how the examples you choose illustrate the complex workings of privileges and power to which Kaufman refers.
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Chapter 7: Inequality: Women and Femininities
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Q1) Explain the phenomenon of double bind. Why do the authors highlight media treatment of Hillary Clinton (who ran for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination in the United States) as an example of double bind? Provide another example of a double bind placed on women in public life and discuss how it fits this concept.
Q2) What is the main purpose of gender policing?
A) to challenge a patriarchal society
B) to create a benevolently sexist society
C) to promote conformity to or support for gender rules among both women and men
D) to foster chivalric behavior among men
Q3) While documenting parents' nervousness about their son's performance of femininity, the sociologist Emily Kane found that
A) parents discouraged their boys from playing with girls for more than one hour a day.
B) parents encouraged their sons to embrace femininity by doing things like painting their fingernails.
C) as masculine activities are valued, parents endorsed their girl's interests in "icons of masculinity" like trucks.
D) parents were deeply troubled by their girls' gender-nonconforming behavior.
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Chapter 8: Institutions
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Which statement is false?
A) The social structure is a source of constraint and opportunity for individuals.
B) Every individual has equal access to institutional resources.
C) Sets of institutions provide a relatively stable framework to society.
D) The social structure is the entire set of institutions within which we spend our lives.
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) What did college students in the 1920s mean by 'smashing'?
A) breaking rules
B) having heterosexual contacts
C) finding someone very attractive
D) having a same-sex crush
Q2) What best describes the gender relations of 1950s?
A) They were unusually family focused.
B) Achieving the "American dream" put more financial strain on men than ever before.
C) It was a decade of increased interest in feminism and sexual liberation.
D) Men and women grew increasingly tolerant of homosexual behavior.
Q3) 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.
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) 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
Q2) How has the fertility rate in the United States changed throughout the twentieth century?
A) Between 1920 and 1940, it declined. Between 1940 and 1960, it rose substantially. By 1960, it started to decline again, but since the 1980s it has remained somewhat constant.
B) It has been rising since the 1920s.
C) Between 1920 and 1960, it rose substantially. By 1960, it declined sharply and in the mid-1970s, it remained at the same level.
D) Between 1920 and 1950, and 1960 and 1970, it declined sharply. Since the 1980s, it has remained at the same level.
Q3) Is the orgasm gap an outcome of natural biological differences between men and women? Why or why not?
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Chapter 11: Families
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Q1) Young men and young women can be called egalitarians because they prefer relationships in which
A) they equally value men's responsibility for earning income and women's for child and house care.
B) they both intend to work for pay and forgo having children.
C) they accept that women will only seek paid work when it doesn't interfere with their roles as mother and wife.
D) both partners do their fair share of breadwinning, housekeeping, and child rearing.
Q2) Which of the following is true about the care chain?
A) The chain is based only on a series of unpaid nurturing relationships.
B) The work of care brings more financial returns as you move down the chain.
C) The chain involves both men and women doing care work at the highest levels.
D) The work of care is feminized and devalued, whether it is paid or not.
Q3) In Gender, Wade and Ferree discuss various ways labor can be divided within families. Pick any three ways, name and define the three you pick, and then explain what factors outside the family make it more or less probable that particular families will choose these specific arrangements.
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Chapter 12: Work
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Q1) The glass cliff is defined as
A) the invisible barrier between women and the top positions in stereotypical male occupations.
B) the invisible ride to the top offered to women in male-dominated positions.
C) the tendency for women to be placed in jobs with a high risk of failure.
D) the higher barrier faced by women of color in the labor market compared to men and white women.
Q2) Which of the following best describes the fatherhood premium?
A) Married fathers who live with their children earn less than married men without children at all.
B) On average, employers offer married men with children higher salaries than single men.
C) Married fathers are more likely to keep their jobs than married men without children.
D) Men with children earn more than women with children.
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) Which country was the first to grant women the right to vote in 1910?
A) Finland
B) United States
C) South Africa
D) France
Q2) Women represent more than 40 percent of members in the legislature of which one of these countries?
A) Sierra Leone
B) United States
C) Saudi Arabia
D) Chile
Q3) In which region of the world has the number of female politicians decreased since 1985?
A) Western industrial countries
B) Latin America
C) Eastern Europe
D) Middle East and North Africa
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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