Human Rights and Gender Justice Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
This course explores the intersection of human rights and gender justice, examining how international and national legal frameworks address issues of gender-based discrimination, violence, and inequality. Students will analyze key human rights instruments, feminist legal theories, and case studies from diverse socio-cultural contexts to understand the challenges faced by women and gender minorities. The course emphasizes advocacy strategies, policy analysis, and the role of social movements in promoting gender justice, enabling students to critically assess contemporary human rights challenges and propose effective solutions for advancing equality and justice for all genders.
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Gender Ideas Interactions Institutions 2nd Edition by
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Lisa Wade
Chapter 1: Ideas
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Q1) According to the textbook,how do gender ideologies operate around the world?
A)All societies throughout history have viewed gender through a gender binary.
B)In the 1600s and 1700s,societies around the world acknowledged three,four,or five genders,but today all societies view gender through a gender binary.
C)Most societies throughout history have acknowledged three,four,or five genders.
D)Some societies view gender through a gender binary while others acknowledge three,four,or five genders.
Answer: D
Q2) Lillian does not have a fixed gender identity.What term best describes them?
A)cisgender
B)gender fluid
C)female-bodied
D)transgender
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Bodies
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Q1) Identical twins become genotypically different over time.How can this be explained?
A)Upbringing is more important than genes.
B)Their environment and experiences affect how their genes are expressed.
C)Identical twins are not actually 100 percent genetically identical.
D)It cannot be explained because the statement is false.
Answer: B
Q2) What is meant by the idea that many biological characteristics are mutable?
A)They are responsive to external efforts to shift or disrupt them.
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
Q3) 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) Provide an example of two strongly contrasting gender performances by women (or by men),both of which American culture defines as fully acceptable and following gender rules adequately,but which seem to be the reverse of each other.Explain how such divergent roles can exist if there are gender rules that people are following. Answer: Answers will vary about gender performance,but here students should draw upon the idea of cultural traveling.Depending on the context,or subculture,the rules and expectations will differ in terms of what is acceptable.The gender rules that apply to different contexts can be quite nuanced.
Q2) Compare and contrast an injection model of socialization and a learning model of socialization.Which model better explains gender socialization? Make sure to provide supporting details to explain your viewpoint.
Answer: Here students should discuss how an injection model of socialization suggests that we are only socialized about gender as children,that it does not allow for the possibility that we resist and change gender rules,and that it cannot explain cultural changes.A learning model of socialization,on the other hand,suggests that socialization is a lifelong process of learning about gender roles.This model does a better job of explaining gender socialization.
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Chapter 4: Intersections
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Q1) Andre and Anna are both plumbers.Which category do Andre and Anna belong to?
A)Andre belongs to the marked category while Anna belongs to the unmarked category because plumbers are assumed to be female.
B)Andre belongs to the unmarked category while Anna belongs to the marked category because plumbers are assumed to be female.
C)Andre belongs to the marked category while Anna belongs to the unmarked category because plumbers are assumed to be male.
D)Andre belongs to the unmarked category while Anna belongs to the marked category because plumbers are assumed to be male.
Q2) What conditions make it more likely that Roberto will adopt a Breadwinner gender strategy?
A)if he has children and realizes he loves parenting
B)if he is promoted to partner at a law firm and his wife loses her job
C)if he works at a dead-end job and is married to a Career Woman
D)if he loses his factory job and retrains to work at the local hospital as a nurse
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Chapter 5: Inequality: Men and Masculinities
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Q1) What is sexism?
A)the granting of higher status,respect,value,reward,and power to the masculine compared to the feminine
B)the placing of women into positions that make them subservient to or dependent on men
C)the legal control of female and younger male family members by select adult men
D)the favoring of male-bodied over female-bodied people,both ideologically and in practice
Q2) According to hegemonic masculinity,who would be considered the "real man" in our collective imagination?
A)a man who exudes strength,sensitivity,and power
B)a man who exudes intellect,sensitivity,and power
C)a man who exudes strength,charm,and power
D)a man who exudes intellect,sensitivity,and charm
Q3) First,define the term "hybrid masculinities." Then,evaluate whether you think hybrid masculinities can lead to a more gender-equal society.Make sure to explain your reasoning.
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Chapter 6: Inequality: Women and Femininities
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Q1) A woman holds the door open for a man who is hurrying into a building behind her,but he hesitates to go through it.The fact that men resist being on the receiving end of chivalry reveals that __________ is about power and inequality,not just being nice or gentlemanly.
A)emphasized femininity
B)hegemony
C)gender equivocation
D)benevolent sexism
Q2) Which of the following examples demonstrates how women can perform emphasized femininity?
A)combat positions in the U.S.military being opened to women
B)stay-at-home moms being committed to performing unpaid work at home
C)parents encouraging their daughters to aspire for traditionally male occupations
D)women teaching men to use makeup to appear more attractive
Q3) In what ways do women make patriarchal bargains in order to promote their well-being and autonomy? Compare and contrast three ways in which women can make a patriarchal bargain and assess which strategy you think would be more effective for a woman working as the only female chemical engineer at a chemical company.
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Chapter 7: Institutions
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Q1) What purpose do sex-segregated sports serve?
A)They challenge the hierarchical gender binary.
B)They protect women from the idea that they are inferior athletes.
C)They protect men from losing face.
D)They help justify equal pay for female athletes.
Q2) The definition of "norms" is
A)the sets of institutions within which we live our lives.
B)the social organization of gender relations in the society.
C)explicitly codified expectations,often written down with stated consequences for deviance.
D)beliefs and practices that are well known,widely followed,and culturally approved.
Q3) 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.
Q4) Do you believe it's possible to just be an individual in today's society? Why or why not?
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Chapter 8: Change
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Q1) How has industrial change created incentives to have fewer children?
A)People can't afford more children because each child requires expensive electronics.
B)People prefer to spend their time watching TV rather than having sex.
C)People get access to condoms,which are cheap and effective means of contraception.
D)People have to pay for more expensive technologies in hospitals to give birth.
Q2) Alex believes that women are naturally chaste and are motivated by love while men are naturally more vulgar and filled with sexual desire.Alex is demonstrating which term?
A)the cult of domesticity
B)a gendered love/sex binary
C)partnership marriage
D)separate spheres
Q3) Why did enslaved Africans during the colonial period engage in premarital sex?
A)They had more opportunities to socialize across gender lines than whites did.
B)They did not restrict their own sexuality as severely as did whites.
C)They had greater sexual desire than whites.
D)Most could not legally marry.
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Chapter 9: Sexualities
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Q1) Natalia is __________;she is desired by all the men she works with at a local bank.
A)sexual
B)sexy
C)sexually liberated
D)sexually subjectified
Q2) How do gender and age intersect in the erotic marketplace?
A)As women get older,they prefer younger men,just as older men prefer younger women.
B)The average man prefers to date a woman who is younger;the average woman prefers a man her age or slightly older.
C)The average man prefers to date women who are younger,but as they get older,the age gap that men prefer shrinks.
D)Age is conflated with ugliness;this is equally true for men and women,so as they age,their erotic value approaches zero.
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."
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Chapter 10: Families
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Q1) Lisa is a single parent who works full time as a firefighter.Today,when her shift at the fire station ends,Lisa will prepare dinner for her family,oversee her children's homework,give her youngest child a bath,clean the kitchen,and do a load of laundry.What term best describes the work that Lisa will be doing?
A)concerted cultivation
B)homemaking
C)intensive motherhood
D)second shift
Q2) Childcare in gay households
A)is masculinized,because gay fathers center childcare discussions around financially providing.
B)is feminized,because gay fathers use language indicating that parenting is a women's role.
C)is not viewed as a gendered activity.
D)is viewed as both masculine and feminine.
Q3) In 2016,the birthrate was the lowest recorded in the last thirty years.Give at least three potential explanations for the rise in the decision to be childfree in the United States.What kind of societal changes might reverse or at least stop this downward trend in births?
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Chapter 11: Work
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Q1) Celia just received her annual performance review from her male boss.She is interested in applying for a job in the pay grade above hers,so she needs to receive concrete feedback on the areas she needs to improve to strengthen her chances of being promoted.Her boss,however,doesn't want to hurt her feelings,so he provides vague feedback that is hard to interpret.Her boss is demonstrating how __________ can impede women's chances for advancement.
A)benevolent sexism
B)double binds
C)glass ceilings
D)hostile sexism
Q2) An androcentric pay scale implies which of the following?
A)The percentage of women in an occupation is a good predictor of it having lower wages.
B)Men and women get paid according to their skill levels,but men are more skilled on average.
C)The gender composition of the job has no effect on wages,but women are paid less for it.
D)The gender composition of a job is less important than workers' experience,and men have more experience.
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Chapter 12: Politics
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Q1) The Women's March that was held after Donald Trump's inauguration had a platform that emphasized
A)traditional feminist concerns like reproductive rights and violence against women.
B)gender inequality in the workforce,including both benevolent and hostile sexism.
C)equality for sexual and religious minorities,along with civil rights for all.
D)traditional feminist concerns as well as broader concerns about policing,equality,and rights for all groups.
Q2) Which of the following countries offers maternity leave to mothers at 100 percent of their income for the longest number of weeks?
A)Poland
B)Costa Rica
C)Netherlands
D)Spain
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.
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