Women's and Gender Studies Study Guide Questions
Course Introduction
Women's and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary course that explores the roles, experiences, and contributions of women and gender minorities throughout history and across cultures. The course examines key concepts such as gender, sexuality, race, class, and power, and analyzes how these intersect to shape social identities and inequalities. Through readings, discussion, and critical analysis, students engage with feminist theories and movements, highlight issues of social justice, and consider the impact of societal structures on individuals and communities. The course also encourages self-reflection and activism, empowering students to challenge stereotypes and advocate for equity and inclusion.
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Gender Ideas Interactions Institutions 2nd Edition by Lisa Wade
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Chapter 1: Ideas
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Q1) What does it mean to say that gender is a social construct? What biological evidence led scholars to conclude that gender is a social construct? How about cultural or historical evidence? Is there anything in your own life that could be used as evidence that gender is a social construct? Why or why not?
Answer: Gender as a social construct means that society has created shared meanings and understandings of the term "gender." For biological evidence,answers can discuss how intersex and/or transgender individuals do not fit our gender binary.For cultural or historical evidence,answers can draw upon the various examples that demonstrate how not all societies view gender through a binary.They can also discuss how not all men and women fit stereotypes.For their own life,they should provide an example that demonstrates how they defy our proscribed rules and norms about gender.
Q2) Someone who reads the words "wrestling," "pickup truck," and "steak" and then automatically thinks "man" is experiencing the effect of
A)gender binary glasses.
B)the gender similarities hypothesis.
C)associative memory.
D)the difference between sex and gender.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Bodies
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Q1) First,describe an animal species that has a high level of sexual dimorphism and an animal species that has a low level of sexual dimorphism.Then,evaluate where you think humans fit on the sexual dimorphism scale.Are they more similar to the species that has a high level of sexual dimorphism or the species that has a low level of sexual dimorphism? Make sure to explain your reasoning.
Answer: Examples of high sexual dimorphism include anglerfish,green spoonworms,peacocks,and elephant seals.Examples of low sexual dimorphism include Fischer's lovebird.Humans will most likely be placed in between these two,and probably closer to the low end.
Q2) Ellen believes that all gender differences are the product of our environments;we learn and are socialized into gender differences.Ellen believes in a __________ explanation of gender differences.
A)bioculturalist
B)culturalist
C)interactionist
D)naturalist
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Performances
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Q1) Nathan and Olivia have both joined an online dating site.Nathan posts photos of himself playing soccer,while Olivia posts photos of herself wearing dresses,high heels,and makeup.Nathan and Olivia have both demonstrated the importance of __________ in society.
A)cultural traveling
B)gender accounts
C)gender policing
D)gender rules
Answer: D
Q2) The way that children do gender is
A)increasingly inflexible as they learn increasing numbers of rules about doing gender correctly.
B)more flexible and less binary than their parents typically expect.
C)a reflection of greater biological predispositions toward fashion and nurturance among girls and for guns and trucks among boys,which most parents have to acknowledge.
D)more rigid and binary than the way adults do gender because they are still learning the rules in all their complexity.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Intersections
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Q1) What is one strategy that some gay men,lesbians,and bisexuals adopt to resist homophobia?
A)practicing gender conformity
B)approving gender deviance
C)accepting compulsory heterosexuality
D)accepting compulsory homosexuality
Q2) Which of the following is an example of a Gentle Black Man strategy?
A)watching movies with friends and earning average grades
B)whistling classical music while walking down the street at night
C)excelling in sports and earning high grades
D)playing World of Warcraft and wearing black clothes
Q3) First,explain the kinds of challenges that women and men with physical disabilities face in designing strategies with which to do gender.Make sure to address whether there are strategies that are differently available to women and men,especially women and men of different class statuses.Then,pick one intersectional situation to put in the center and compare the strategies of disabled people with at least four different life situations (e.g. ,class status,urban or rural location,family structures,and race)to this "reference person."
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Chapter 5: Inequality: Men and Masculinities
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Q1) Studies on language processes in our brain have demonstrated that the words "human," "individual," and "person" tend to conjure up cognitive images of men,not men and women.This finding reflects the cultural idea that A)men's gender is more salient than women's gender.Women's gender is invisible. B)men are "marked" as individuals,while women are seen as having a neutral personality.
C)women are thought of as kids rather than adults.
D)most people see men as people and women as distinct and modified.
Q2) Sociologist Michael Messner described how in his youth he bullied a nonathletic boy while participating in sports himself.This is an example of A)emasculation.
B)patriarchal bargains.
C)precarious masculinity.
D)subordination.
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) Street harassment is an example of the relationship between hostile sexism and benevolent sexism because
A)friendly inquiries are sometimes followed up with angry or threatening ones if the woman doesn't properly respond.
B)it is harmless unless a woman decides she doesn't like it.
C)it dilutes hegemonic masculinity.
D)it happens to both women (hostile)and men (benevolent).
Q2) Which of the following statements best describes the strategy of emphatic sameness?
A)Some women try to downplay the fact that they are female by making their femininity as invisible as possible.
B)Men's negative stereotypes of women are strategically used to ensure women's subjugation to men.
C)Some women perform exaggerated masculinity to demonstrate how similar men and women are.
D)Women use both masculinity and femininity strategically when either is useful and culturally expected.
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Chapter 7: Institutions
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Q1) Victorian gender ideology held that women were
A)in need of medical attention rather than restrooms to cure feminine maladies.
B)more fragile than men and less suited to working for pay.
C)in a position to withstand more physical strain than men so long as they were in the home.
D)more loyal to their work than men in a factory.
Q2) The failure of efforts to install gender-neutral bathrooms in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University illustrates
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.
D)the impact of discriminatory behavior by the building commissioner.
Q3) What is gender salience? Give some examples of how the salience of gender in bathroom facilities varies.In light of these observations,what conclusions can we draw about what purpose sex-segregated bathrooms serve?
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) Which of the following best describes the changes in the U.S.population?
A)Marriage rates have been dropping consistently since the end of World War II.
B)Almost every American alive today has had a cohabiting relation with someone without being married to them.
C)About forty percent of all American children today are born to an unmarried parent.
D)About forty percent of all black children are born to an unmarried parent.
Q2) What does the concept of commodification convey?
A)exchanges between productive labor in factories and reproductive labor at home
B)the advertising that is used to sell things
C)the making of things that can be bought and sold
D)making useful things at home
Q3) Desmond and Monique have a __________ marriage.Their marriage is based on love and understanding.They have negotiated a division of labor such that Desmond is in charge of the cooking,yardwork,and laundry,while Monique is in charge of cleaning,household maintenance,and bill paying.
A)breadwinner/housewife marriage
B)domestic
C)patriarch/property
D)partnership
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Chapter 9: Sexualities
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Q1) Self-objectification is
A)accepting a heterosexual orientation simply by virtue of heteronormativity.
B)the internalization of the idea that others can be more attractive than we ourselves.
C)a rejection of sexual subjectification and learning to love one's own body.
D)internalizing the idea that physical attractiveness determines your self-worth.
Q2) What is sexual objectification?
A)the process by which people,especially women,are reduced to their sex appeal
B)the process by which women internalize a heterosexual orientation
C)the process by which people find someone attractive and sexually desirable
D)the process by which men define a particular object as sexually desirable
Q3) 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)In penile-vaginal intercourse,women have more orgasms than men do.
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Chapter 10: Families
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Q1) The working poor are people who
A)are paid wages below minimum wage.
B)work at paid jobs but still live in poverty.
C)are hired for domestic outsourcing by upper-class families.
D)are working toward economic stability.
Q2) In low-income households,mothers will often stay at home because
A)they wish to help nonfamily members in their neighborhood.
B)they wish to please their in-laws by doing more intensive mothering.
C)day care costs more money than they are able to earn by working.
D)building egalitarian relationships requires mutual sacrifice.
Q3) Elena and Luis both prioritize the second shift.After the birth of their first child,each scaled back on their career ambitions and moved to working part-time.They still make enough money to pay the bills,and they are able to take turns being home with their child.Elena and Luis are a good example of __________ couple.
A)a dual-nurturer
B)an egalitarian
C)a neo-traditional
D)a traditional
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Chapter 11: Work
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Q1) The idea that an employee should focus exclusively on the job without interference from family responsibilities is called
A)the ideal worker norm.
B)the glass ceiling.
C)illegal sex discrimination.
D)the mommy track.
Q2) 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)a loss in wages per hour on the job associated with becoming a mother
Q3) The university is hiring a new instructor,and the department head is interviewing three candidates for the job: (a)an unmarried woman without children(b)a married father of two,and (c)a mother with a newborn baby.Which of these candidates would you predict would likely be offered more money to start? Which of these candidates would likely be offered more training and promotion opportunities? Use the terms and data offered in the chapter to explain who you think has a better chance of being hired as well as having more promotion opportunities,and offer an explanation for your prediction.
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Chapter 12: Politics
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Q1) Why are some women's movements also autonomous movements?
A)They function independently of men's participation and approval.
B)They are collective nongovernmental efforts to change societies.
C)They try to do feminist work in spaces that are not explicitly feminist.
D)They involve efforts by feminists to change gender relations outside their own countries.
Q2) A state policy that encourages high-income women to choose stay-at-home motherhood,but discourages low-income mothers from doing so is an example of A)the gender of governance.
B)the governance of gender.
C)gender-aware policymaking.
D)symbolic representation.
Q3) Which model of gender equality is MOST appealing to feminists who believe that we should be working to establish societies in which gender disappears as a meaningful category?
A)equal opportunity
B)equal access
C)equal value
D)equal sharing
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