Men and Masculinities
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Course Introduction
This course critically examines the social construction of masculinity and the diverse ways in which men experience and perform gender across cultures and historical periods. It explores how masculinities intersect with race, class, sexuality, and other identities, analyzing both dominant and marginalized expressions of manhood. The course also investigates the impact of societal expectations on men's lives, the challenges of redefining masculinity in contemporary contexts, and ongoing debates surrounding gender equality and men's roles in social change. Through readings, discussions, and case studies, students develop a nuanced understanding of masculinity as a complex and evolving aspect of human identity.
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Gendered Lives 11th Edition by Julia T. Wood
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Chapter 1: The Study of Communication Gender and Culture
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Q1) The term "feminism" was coined in France in the early 1800s.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) 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.
Q3) Sex
Answer: Sex is an individual quality determined by biology (chromosomes and hormones).Sex is biological; gender is socially constructed.Sex is innate; gender is learned.Sex is unchanging,or stable (possible exception--sex change surgery.)
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Chapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to Gender Development
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Q1) Children learn who they are and what that means in their culture through interaction with parents,teachers,and friends.Through this,they learn gender roles for men and women and may internalize them.Which theory does this definition best describe?
A) cognitive development
B) social learning
C) psychodynamic (or psychoanalytic)
D) biological
E) symbolic interactionism
Answer: E
Q2) 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.
Q3) Performative theory says that gender is not a thing we have,but is instead a thing we do.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Competing Images of Women
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Q1) Women won the right to vote in 1920 in part because of the efforts of the members of the ______________ movement,a group that asserted women's moral superiority.
A) Seneca Falls Convention
B) Revalorists
C) Cult of Domesticity
D) Women's Suffrage Coalition
E) National Organization for Women
Answer: C
Q2) Young feminists used social media like Twitter and Facebook to force the SusanG.Komen foundation to reverse its decision to defund Planned Parenthood in 2012.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Revalorists choose to leave mainstream society and form separate communities that value women and are in harmony with nature.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Competing Images of Men
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Q1) The Men's Rights Movement argues that a number of contemporary policies and practices are discriminatory towards men; moreover,some men's rights groups argue that feminism is at least partially responsible for the implementation of these practices and policies.Identify one contemporary policy or practice that men's movements have identified as discriminatory and explain whether or not you agree with that classification.
Q2) Men's rights activist
Q3) Free Men believe that men are discriminated against,although not as much as women are.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Mythopoetic men argue that modern men experience emotional emptiness related to yearning to be close to their fathers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) NOMAS,MVP,and mythopoetics all agree that the current construction of masculinity can be harmful.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Gendered Verbal Communication
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Q1) Polarized thinking
Q2) Masculine speech community members are less likely than feminine speech community members to want to talk about the "state of the relationship."
A)True
B)False
Q3) Misinterpretations between people who are socialized into masculine speech communities and people who are socialized into feminine speech communities occur around the issue of showing support 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
Q4) Minimal response cues
Q5) The Point of the Story
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Chapter 6: Gendered Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) Explain which nonverbal behaviors may be employed to exert power and control and examine the link to gender.
Q2) Haptics
Q3) The author of your Gendered Lives textbook states,"members of both sexes often feel pressured to meet current cultural ideals of physical appearance." Discuss what this means.As part of your answer,be sure to identify and explain the form of nonverbal communication directly relevant to the statement.Be able to discuss gender and race-ethnic variations (if any)in relationship to physical appearance.
Q4) Verbal communication conveys the majority of the total meaning during an interaction.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Territoriality
Q6) Responsiveness
Q7) Kinesics
Q8) Paralanguage includes spoken words.
A)True
B)False
Q9) Paralanguage
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Chapter 7: Becoming Gendered: The Early Years
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Q1) The point at which an individual stops and the rest of the world begins is called a(n)
A) gender identity.
B) gender constancy.
C) ego boundary.
D) masculine speech community.
E) none of the above.
Q2) Which of the following is generally true of mothers' communication with their children?
A) Mothers tend to communicate with children more than fathers.
B) Mothers typically focus on providing comfort, security, and emotional development.
C) Mothers tend to talk about numbers with their sons more often than their daughters.
D) Mothers engage in more eye contact and face-to-face interaction with children than do fathers.
E) All of the above.
Q3) "Anatomy is destiny"
Q4) Ego boundaries
Q5) Gender identity
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Chapter 8: Gendered Education: Communication in Schools
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Q1) Culture of romance
Q2) Describe how gender contributes to how women faculty members are expected to serve the universities for which they work.
Q3) Boys are more likely than girls to complete high school.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is a challenge gender-nonconforming students often face?
A) The binary norm that force students into male or female categories.
B) Pressure to be self-reliant and not ask questions.
C) Pressure to always look good and appear put-together without seeming to put any effort into doing so.
D) Be attractive to men.
E) All of the above.
Q5) People practicing invisible hand discrimination truly believe they are acting in an unbiased manner.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Invisible hand discrimination
Q7) Effortless perfection
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Chapter 9: Gendered Close Relationships
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Q1) Feminine ruler:
Q2) Alternative paths model
Q3) Second shift
Q4) How do masculine people,often men,who are friends tend to build closeness?
A) share activities
B) talk about their friendship
C) engage in personal disclosure
D) engage in small talk
E) masculine people who are friends do not build closeness
Q5) Gender differences are apparent in the ways people manage conflict.Feminine people, in general,tend to respond to conflict by
A) defering or compromising to reduce tension.
B) issuing ultimatums.
C) refusing to listen or discuss an issue.
D) asserting that the partner is blowing things out of proportion.
E) all of the above.
Q6) Describe the division of labor in a typical heterosexual household.Why does the division exist in this form? Do you think it is possible for the division of labor in the home to be exactly equal? Why or why not?
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Chapter 10: Gendered Organizational Communication
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Q1) At work,Nick feels pressure to be a pillar of strength among his colleagues.When he runs into trouble with a project,he feels like he cannot ask for help because others expect him to be independent and doing so may suggest he is not competent.What stereotype of men in the workplace does this kind of pressure reflect?
A) sturdy oak
B) breadwinner
C) iron man
D) fighter
E) glass wall
Q2) Lilly Ledbetter:
Q3) Women's careers can be hampered by which of the following informal practices?
A) male mentors who attempt to impose male values and styles on women
B)workplace environments that focus on families and relationships
C) informal networks that require women to join men in games of golf and other sports, activities most women do not enjoy
D) segregation into jobs that offer little or no opportunity for advancement
E) all of the above
Q4) Affirmative action policies
Q5) Glass escalator
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Chapter 11: Gendered Media
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Q1) The author of your textbook argues that television programs and movies such as The Good Wife,Law and Order,The Closer,Hunger Games,and Brave may appear to challenge conventional norms of femininity when in fact they reinforce those norms.Review the author's arguments and indicate whether you agree or disagree.You may reference specific examples from the programs/movies in support of your answer.
Q2) How do media motivate us to consume,and why is this significant in terms of gender? Use examples to make your point.
Q3) Advertising in the United States tends to present women as authority figures by using them for voice-overs in commercials.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Product placement
Q5) 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
Q6) Third person effect
Q7) Gatekeeper
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Chapter 12: Gendered Power and Violence
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Q1) Define gendered violence,and discuss the ways in which society normalizes gendered violence.Your essay should identify 3 specific social foundations or institutions that allow or encourage both women and men to regard certain kinds of gendered violence as normal or acceptable.Include concrete examples.
Q2) State-funded programs to limit women's rights to reproductive choice never existed in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In this form of genital surgery,a female's entire clitoris and parts of the labia minora are removed:
A) femilectomy
B) sunna
C) infibulation
D) clitoridectomy (excision)
E) revaganilization
Q4) Lewd remarks made in public spaces,while annoying,are not considered gendered violence.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 13: Epilogue: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
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Q1) Voice
Q2) Which of the following is true about taking voice and enacting change?
A) Change comes primarily through the use of direct power - making people do what they would not do on their own.
B) The only people with the ability to engage in agenda setting have formal power, such as newspaper editors and television producers.
C) Taking voice and enacting change are processes.
D) The responsibility for taking voice and enacting change around gender norms rests primarily with men.
E) The responsibility for taking voice and enacting change around gender norms rests primarily with women.
Q3) Agenda-setting
Q4) Differences are valuable and desirable. A)True
B)False
Q5) "Salad bowl" metaphor
Q6) Agenda-setting is an important way to influence cultural views of gender.
A)True
B)False
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