Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Test Bank
Course Introduction
This course offers an interdisciplinary exploration of gender and sexuality, examining how these concepts are constructed, understood, and experienced across diverse cultures and historical contexts. Students will engage with key theories in gender and sexuality studies, address intersections with race, class, and identity, and analyze the ways in which power, media, and institutions influence social norms. Through readings, discussions, and case studies, the course encourages critical thinking about the dynamics of gender and sexuality in everyday life and contemporary society.
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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) What does it mean to say that we use gender ideologies to organize our worlds?
Answer: When we say that we use gender ideologies to organize our worlds, we are referring to the ways in which societal beliefs and expectations about gender influence and shape our daily lives. Gender ideologies encompass the cultural, social, and political beliefs about what it means to be male or female, and how individuals should behave based on their gender.
These ideologies dictate everything from the division of labor within households, to the types of jobs and careers that are considered appropriate for men and women. They also influence our perceptions of masculinity and femininity, and the ways in which we interact with others in various social settings.
In essence, gender ideologies serve as a framework through which we understand and navigate the world around us. They inform our attitudes, behaviors, and interactions, and play a significant role in shaping our identities and experiences. By recognizing the impact of gender ideologies on our lives, we can work towards challenging and dismantling harmful stereotypes and expectations, and strive towards creating a more equitable and inclusive society for all individuals, regardless of their gender.
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Chapter 3: Bodies
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Q1) Researchers have observed differences in the visual-spatial abilities of men and women, such as in performing the task of mental rotation. What is the most plausible cause of such differences?
A) Cognitive skills are best explained by hormone levels. Men have higher levels of testosterone than women.
B) Cognitive skills correspond with the right side of the brain. Men and women tend to use different sides of their brains.
C) Cognitive skills are shaped by evolution. Through gender-specific practices, men's brains have evolved differently than women's.
D) Cognitive skills are affected by instruction and practice. Men are more likely than women to engage in activities that develop the skill of mental rotation.
Answer: D
Q2) What are hormonal feedback loops?
A) ways to shift hormone levels with medicine
B) the occurrence of both androgens and estrogens in men and women
C) the body's hormonal response to stimuli
D) the different parenting abilities of men and women
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Performance
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Q1) Which of the following is a conclusion offered in this chapter?
A) Higher social status is a result of avoiding gender policing.
B) Breaking gender rules is typically painful and comes with significant social costs.
C) Gender rules are easily broken since most of them are unconscious and not policed.
D) Accounts we give for breaking gender rules make it seem like everyone agrees with them, even when they don't conform.
Answer: D
Q2) 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 temporary.
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) No gender rules apply on Halloween.
Answer: B
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Chapter 5: Intersections
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Q1) What conditions make it more likely that a man will adopt a Breadwinner gender strategy?
A) He has children and realizes he loves parenting.
B) He is promoted to partner at a law firm and his wife loses her job.
C) He works at a dead-end job and is married to a Career Woman.
D) He loses his factory job and retrains to work at the local hospital as a nurse.
Q2) In the United States, Asian American men became stereotyped as less masculine than white men as a result of what historical fact?
A) In the 1800s, Chinese men lived together without wives and performed domestic tasks for themselves.
B) In the 1870s and 1880s, Chinese and Japanese men were brought to the United States to work as sex slaves.
C) Even in the 1900s,Asian American men were academic overachievers, and school is a feminized activity.
D) From the 1880s to 1900s, Asian men were denied the right to vote, making them dependents like women.
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Chapter 6: Inequality, Men and Masculinities
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Q1) What is patriarchy?
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) legal as well as normative 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) Which of the following is NOT true of an androcentric society?
A) Things associated with masculinity are granted higher status, respect, value, reward, and power compared with things associated with femininity.
B) The rewards of the gender hierarchy go only to people with male bodies.
C) Women tend to embrace masculine traits and activities.
D) Men tend to avoid feminine traits and activities.
Q3) Which of the following statements best describes the meaning of hegemony?
A) Persistent patterns of social interaction that stand out as very unequal.
B) Widely shared beliefs that make inequality seem inevitable or natural.
C) Widely endorsed behavioral rules that people would be afraid to violate.
D) Rule by force.
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Chapter 7: Inequality: Women and Femininities
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Q1) All of the following statements are true EXCEPT
A) the strategy of emphatic sameness has limited advantages.
B) most women alternate between different gender strategies to gain empowerment.
C) a double bind is a situation in which cultural expectations are noncontradictory.
D) benevolent sexism isn't about kindness but a trap to keep women in debt to men.
Q2) A woman holds the door open for a man who is hurrying into a building behind her, 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
Q3) In what ways do women make patriarchal bargains in order to promote their well being and autonomy? When and how do men also engage in such bargains? Compare and contrast a pair of patriarchal bargains with one for women and one for men in their purposes and usefulness for people of each gender.
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Chapter 8: Institutions
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Institutional inertia makes social change difficult and yet we see a lot of social change in gender relations in many different social institutions. How do you explain this apparent contradiction? Discuss a few of the causal forces impelling change in a social institution of your own choosing.
Q3) While doing research on playgrounds in elementary schools, sociologist Barrie Thorne noticed that
A) teachers encouraged girls to play indoors and boys to play on playgrounds.
B) children were seated by gender in classrooms.
C) boys' social interactions were not influenced by gender, but girls' were.
D) gender was less salient in the classroom than on the playground.
Q4) When it comes down to it, regardless of social construction and social pressure, don't we live in a society in which it's possible to just be an individual?
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Chapter 9: Change
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Q1) Which of the following statements best defines a partnership marriage?
A) Women and men have equal legal rights and obligations and base their relationship on companionship.
B) A marriage that is based on civil union laws instead of marriage laws.
C) It requires one man and one woman to commit to each other as partners for life.
D) Women and men commit to dividing their paid and unpaid labor exactly equally.
Q2) What has been the statistical trend for age at first marriage for women?
A) Between 1920 and 1940, it rose. By 1950, it dropped substantially. From the 1960s, it began rising again and hasn't stopped since.
B) It has been rising since the 1900s along with women's education.
C) Between 1900 and 1950, it rose. By 1950, it dropped substantially, and it has been dropping ever since.
D) Between 1920 and 1940, it rose. Between 1950 and 1970, it dropped substantially. After women's liberation in the mid-1970s, it began to rise again.
Q3) The 1920s were a watershed period in young people's sexuality. What new opportunities did women and men encounter? What were the costs and benefits for each gender?
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Chapter 10: Sexualities
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Q1) The lead-in question to your textbook's chapter on sexuality was: "Gendered ideas, interactions, and institutions may affect almost every part of my life, but some things are personal and my sexuality is mine and mine alone, isn't it?" Why do the authors argue that the answer is no.
Q2) Which of the following statistics related to rates of orgasm is true?
A) Women have about three times as many orgasms as men but are reluctant to admit it.
B) Women in same-sex relationships have two to three times as many orgasms as women in heterosexual ones.
C) Compared to men, when women masturbate they reach orgasm much more slowly.
D) Women have more orgasms than men do in penile-vaginal intercourse.
Q3) What is sexual objectification?
A) It is the process by which people, especially women, are presented as objects of desire for others.
B) It is the process by which women internalize a heterosexual orientation.
C) It is the process by which people find someone attractive and sexually desirable.
D) It is the process by which men define a particular object as sexually desirable.
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Chapter 11: Families
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Q1) Domestic outsourcing refers to
A) paying non-family members to do family-related jobs.
B) men being responsible for the second shift in a relationship.
C) grandparents being primary caregivers for grandchildren.
D) upholding the ideology of intensive motherhood.
Q2) Examining the division of labor in gay and lesbian households reveals which general pattern?
A) the uniquely family-focused approach to parenting in same-sex households where it can be difficult to become parents
B) the gendering of tasks and roles regardless of the sex of the person doing them
C) the declining significance of intensive mothering for younger people
D) the opportunities that all families have to disregard gender entirely if they wish
Q3) Couples with class privilege can build and maintain an equal division of labor by A) remaining childless.
B) outsourcing more household labor.
C) sharing the same traditionalist orientation.
D) specializing in either household or market labor.
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Chapter 12: Work
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Q1) What is the motherhood penalty?
A) the extra housework that women have, in addition to paid work outside the house
B) the highest cost of health care for women who choose to have children
C) a career path with fewer opportunities for raises, promotions, or even equal pay
D) the decrease in women's average salaries with every child they have
Q2) The gender pay gap is
A) the difference between the average incomes of men and women who work full-time for pay.
B) the actual salary gap between women and men regardless of the hours they work for pay.
C) irrelevant, because today women and men make the same amount for the same jobs, but just have different jobs.
D) the difference between women's and men's incomes in exactly the same job for the same employer.
Q3) If women now have equal protection in the workplace, why aren't they as successful as men at work?
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Chapter 13: Politics
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Ideas that do not (yet) resonate with most members of a population are A) androcentric.
B) hegemonic.
C) individualistic.
D) radical.
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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