Women's and Gender Studies
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Course Introduction
Women's and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores the social, cultural, political, and historical constructions of gender and sexuality. The course examines the roles, experiences, and contributions of women and LGBTQ+ individuals, interrogating power structures, systems of privilege, and social inequalities. Drawing from literature, history, sociology, and feminist theory, students analyze topics such as intersectionality, identity, gender norms, and global perspectives, fostering critical thinking and an awareness of advocacy for equity and social justice.
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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) Inclusive language
Answer: Inclusive language is more than simply "adding" women.Inclusive language is used to recognize individuals and groups marginalized in current society.For example,the word "partner" is more inclusive than "spouse" because the latter term excludes gays and lesbians and fails to acknowledge the intimate connection between people who cohabit without marriage.
Q2) The thinness valued as desirable and beautiful in American culture has always been the standard for attractiveness in that culture.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The term patriarchy literally means
A) oppression of females.
B) from male standpoint.
C) rule by the fathers.
D) government by men.
E) all of the above
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to Gender Development
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Q1) Cognitive development theory
Answer: Children select models to teach themselves how to be competent at masculine or feminine behaviors.Children are viewed as active learners.Children develop gender constancy,usually by age three,when they understand they are male or female and that this will not change.
Q2) The best way to explain sex and gender is through interpersonal and cultural theories.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Psychodynamic theory
Answer: Infants develop a sense of self and gender identity by internalizing the views of those they interact with early in life.The relationship with the primary caretaker, typically the mother,is a particularly important relationship.Researcher Nancy Chodorow states that mothers tend to form different relationships with boys and girls. Girls tend to define their identities within a relationship since they identify with their mothers and boys tend to define themselves by differentiating themselves from their mothers.
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Chapter 3: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Competing Images of Women
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Q1) What was/were the goal/s of the first wave of the women's rights movement?
A) woman suffrage-the right to vote
B) women's right to higher education
C) women's right to work in the professions
D) women's right to own property
E) all of the above
Answer: E
Q2) Which feminist group emphasizes that all oppressions-including those to nonhuman living things-are linked and that to eliminate oppression of women we must also eliminate oppression of animals and the environment?
A) revalorists
B) ecofeminists
C) lesbian feminists
D) womanists
E) separatists
Answer: B
Q3) Radical feminists were the first to declare that "the personal is political."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Competing Images of Men
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Q1) The Promise Keepers developed in response to a horrific act of violence against women that took place in Montreal (sometimes referred to as the Montreal Massacre).
A)True
B)False
Q2) Football coach Joe Ehrmann,who stresses to his team the value of building relationships,loving one another,and accepting love,is enacting a traitorous identity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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.
Q4) Masculinist movements assert that men suffer from discrimination and that men need to reclaim their rightful status as men.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Gendered Verbal Communication
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Q1) 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
Q2) There are several common communication problems that may occur when people from different gendered speech communities interact.List and describe 3 of them.
Q3) Polarized thinking
Q4) Male generic language
Q5) Women tend to interrupt others more than men.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Gendered Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) Stace frowns at another boy and turns his back in disgust.Stace's nonverbal communication is demonstrating the liking dimension of relationship level meaning.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The CEO at the company you work for has a spacious corner office all to herself while the rest of the employees share offices or work in cubicles.What form of nonverbal communication is indicating a power differential here?
A) kinesics
B) haptics
C) proxemics
D) territoriality
E) environmental factors
Q3) Body image disorders only affect women.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Verbal communication conveys the majority of the total meaning during an interaction.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Becoming Gendered: The Early Years
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Q1) Daniel works as a barista at a small coffee house in New York City.He loves his job and his customers love him.He has a very small apartment that he shares with a roommate. His salary allows him to eat at restaurants a few times a month and to visit his sister in another state a couple of times a year.Daniel is mostly satisfied with his life.However, he feels a lot of pressure from his parents,especially his father,to go out and find a job in his college major of economics.Daniel's father frequently derides the coffee house job and the size of Daniel's apartment.What theme of masculinity is described here?
A) Don't be female.
B) Be successful.
C) Be aggressive.
D) Be sexual.
E) Be self-reliant.
Q2) Social aggression:
Q3) Define ego boundaries and explain how they typically develop in masculine and feminine people,noting both similarities and differences in development.
Q4) Parental modeling
Q5) According to psychoanalytical theory,how do most boys develop their gender identity?
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Chapter 8: Gendered Education: Communication in Schools
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Q1) In a course on mass media history,the professor shows the film "Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio," which ascribes the entire development of radio to three men: David Sarnoff,Lee DeForest,and Edwin Armstrong,ignoring the contributions of women and minorities to the development of the medium.This is an example of what?
A) gender stereotyped curriculum
B) invisible hand discrimination
C) gender stereotyped discrimination
D) hidden discrimination
E) none of the above
Q2) Socioeconomic status,more than sex,is a factor in a student's success in higher education.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Male and female Chinese students outscore U.S.students of both sexes on math tests.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Title IX
Q5) Invisible hand discrimination
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Chapter 9: Gendered Close Relationships
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Q1) 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
Q2) Kaitlin and her partner Adam have spent a lot of time fighting and avoiding each other recently.Kaitlin is upset about the situation and wants to fix the problem.Adam doesn't seem to have noticed that anything is wrong.Kaitlin takes it upon herself to start a conversation with Adam about their issues.This reflects Kaitlin and Adam's
A) tension between autonomy and connection.
B) differing ways of showing affection.
C) gendered responsibility for relational health.
D) gendered power dynamics.
E) none of the above.
Q3) In heterosexual couples in which the woman earns substantially more than the man,the man performs the majority of household labor.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Gendered Organizational Communication
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Q1) Glass escalator
Q2) Glass ceilings
Q3) Affirmative action is a quota system that states a number of minorities that must be hired,admitted,or promoted,regardless of qualifications.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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
Q5) Glass walls
Q6) Mentoring relationships
Q7) Affirmative action policies
Q8) Maternal wall
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Chapter 11: Gendered Media
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Q1) Cyberbullying has real,sometimes fatal consequences for its victims.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Your book discusses the ways in which unrealistic standards are normalized in media.Choose two of the unrealistic standards,give specific examples of them,and describe the implications of them for media consumers.
Q3) Discuss three ways in which news media,including cable and network television news,magazines,and newspapers,promote stereotypical views of women and femininity and provide concrete examples to support your points.
Q4) Discuss messages rap and/or gangsta rap music contains about men and women.Do the media influence consumers? Finally,do you agree with Al Sharpton's request to the FCC to ban rappers who disrespect women? Why or why not?
Q5) Advertisements ______ than other media.
A) contain less gendered messages
B) are less pervasive
C) are less effective
D) contain more gendered messages
E) are often more powerful
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Chapter 12: Gendered Power and Violence
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Q1) Informed consent
Q2) The "reasonable person" standard is used to determine if sexual harassment has occurred.
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) Define sexual harassment.Then,identify and evaluate the two different legal forms of sexual harassment and standards for determining whether it occurred.Your response should explain which standard,if any,you favor and why.
Q5) Gender intimidation
Q6) Define informed consent.Do you think this is an appropriate definition of informed consent? Why or why not?
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Which of the following are metaphors that seek to recognize diversity in the United States without obscuring difference?
A) a melting pot
B) a cake mix
C) a Venn diagram
D) a quilt
E) all of the above
Q3) Direct power
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