Womens and Gender Studies Exam Review
Course Introduction
Womens and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the roles, experiences, and contributions of women and people of diverse genders across historical, cultural, social, and political contexts. This course explores how gender intersects with race, class, sexuality, ability, and other identities to shape individual lives and societal structures. Students will analyze feminist theories, social movements, and critical perspectives on power, inequality, and resistance, with the aim to foster critical thinking, social awareness, and advocacy for equity and justice.
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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) Which of the following groups is evidence that the gender binary fails to describe reality?
A) People with intersexed bodies
B) Transsexuals
C) We feel compelled to work hard to make our body appear feminine or masculine.
D) All of the above
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following descriptions best conveys the meaning of the term gender binary?
A) a system with two and only two separate and distinct parts
B) the idea that there are only two types of people-male-bodied people and female-bodied people
C) the idea that there are two types of people-male-bodied people who are masculine and female-bodied people who are feminine
D) a system with masculine and feminine persons
Answer: C
Q3) If bodies are functional, but don't fit into the gender binary, is that a problem? For who, and why?
Answer: Answers will vary.
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Chapter 3: Bodies
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Q1) Testosterone is often believed to be linked to sex differences. Which of the following statements about testosterone is NOT true?
A) Testosterone is linked to visual-spatial ability.
B) Men experience fluctuations in the production of testosterone in their bodies.
C) Women respond to testosterone at lower levels than men do.
D) Testosterone affects sex drive only in men.
Answer: D
Q2) Identical twins become genetically 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 aren't actually 100 percent genetically identical.
D) It can't, because the statement is false.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Performance
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Q1) Which of the following best conveys the meaning of the phrase gender rules?
A) that we all have been socialized to fit into masculine and feminine roles
B) culturally specific instructions for how a man or a woman of a certain social status should appear and behave
C) conformity-promoting responses to the violation of the gender binary in particular situations
D) the process by which something becomes coded as masculine or feminine
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following descriptions best convey the meaning of the phrase doing gender?
A) That we all have been socialized to fit gender binary roles.
B) Culturally specific rules for how a man or a woman should appear and behave.
C) The ways in which we actively obey and break the gender rules of our society.
D) Conformity-promoting responses to violation of the gender binary in particular situations.
Answer: C
Q3) If men and women aren't naturally opposite, then why do they act so differently so much of the time?
Answer: Answers will vary.
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Chapter 5: Intersections
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Q1) According to the authors of your textbook, what does a "gaydar" really detect?
A) presence or absence of sexual desire for another person
B) fear and hatred of sexual minorities
C) people who break gender rules
D) heterosexual people
Q2) Which of the following is an example of a Gentle Black Man strategy?
A) playing video games with friends and earning average grades
B) wearing khakis and button-down shirts to the grocery store
C) excelling in sports and earning high grades
D) playing World of Warcraft and wearing black clothes
Q3) Immigrant couples often abandon Breadwinner/Wonderful Wife and Mother strategies in favor of economic interdependence when they arrive in the United States. This is partially due to their experience of
A) racism.
B) compulsory heterosexuality.
C) downward mobility.
D) gender deviance.
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Chapter 6: Inequality, Men and Masculinities
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Q1) According to the authors of your textbook, why might men who rank low in the masculine hierarchy still defend hegemonic masculinity?
A) Because being a girl is bad, but being a girly man (or boy) is worse.
B) Because they value hypermasculinity.
C) Because it assures them that they're superior to women.
D) Because they want to exert power over others if they possibly can.
Q2) 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. 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 a special kind of female person.
Q3) Sociologist Gwen Sharp suggests that "masculinity is [constructed as] so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the feminine destroys it." Explain this statement.
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Chapter 7: Inequality: Women and Femininities
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Q1) Street hassling 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) According to Wade and Ferree, the main types of patriarchal bargains available to women are
A) gender equivocation, feminine apologetic, emphasized femininity.
B) benevolent and hostile sexism.
C) feminism, hegemonic masculinity, and emphatic sameness.
D) emphasized femininity, emphatic sameness, and gender equivocation.
Q3) What is the nature of the relationship between hostile sexism and benevolent sexism?
A) Positive correlation: If one type is present in a society, so is the other.
B) Inverse correlation: If one type is present in a society, the other is not.
C) Direct causal relationship #1: Hostile sexism leads to benevolent sexism.
D) Direct causal relationship #2: Benevolent sexism leads to hostile sexism.
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Chapter 8: Institutions
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of an institution?
A) the Cleveland Browns
B) Wal-Mart
C) health care
D) the Academy Awards
Q2) Wade and Ferree discuss the history of basketball in the United States, showing that it was dominated by Jewish men in the first half of the 1900s. How does the concept of institution help explain why African Americans eventually came to dominate professional basketball? Likewise, how does the concept explain why men's basketball continues to outshine women's basketball?
Q3) What would happen if sports were not organized by gender, but by ability instead?
A) We would see that women and men have equal ability and women would win as often as men.
B) We would see that women and men have such unequal abilities that they would still never compete against each other.
C) Beliefs in gender difference and inequality would not be routinely and ritualistically rehearsed through sport.
D) Competitions would no longer be fair.
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Chapter 9: Change
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Q1) What is sex for? Over the course of American history, people have had different ideas about what sex was for. Using American Indians, the Puritans and Victorians, young people of the 1920s and the 1950s, and Americans today, trace the shifting ideas about the purpose of sex and the cultural and institutional changes that led to those shifts.
Q2) The breadwinner/housewife model did not offer women economic equality because A) the money women earned at home was less than what men earned at work.
B) working-class women and women of color could not legally work in factories, unlike men of these groups who held these industrial jobs.
C) access to a living wage came through men, and the work women did in maintaining a household was no longer recognized as work.
D) men did not really depend on women's cooking, cleaning, shopping, and childcare.
Q3) Which of the following characterized the 1950s?
A) Divorce rates increased.
B) The age for marriage and motherhood rose.
C) Fertility rates remained steady.
D) The education gap between women and men increased sharply.
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Chapter 10: Sexualities
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Q1) What are the main characteristics of "Hookup Culture"? (a) How does it differ from previous forms of romantic and sexual interaction? (b) How does it reflect gender inequality? (c) How do class, sexual orientation, and race intersect to shape who participates?
Q2) What is the sexual script?
A) specific rules that guide homosexual sexual performances
B) images designed to appeal to a hypothetical heterosexual man
C) rules that objectify others as sexually attractive
D) institutionalized rules for sexual interactions
Q3) Which of the following expressions best represents today's new sexual imperatives?
A) Being a virgin, after a certain age, is embarrassing.
B) Saying "yes" to sex has been replaced by a pressure to say "no."
C) Virginity loss has been equated to masturbation and anal sex.
D) The majority of 15- to 24-year-olds prefer to avoid sexual intercourse.
Q4) 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.
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Chapter 11: Families
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Q1) The lifetime effects of lost wages, benefits, and social security contributions that come with taking time out of the workforce to raise children is called
A) wage discrimination.
B) the mommy tax.
C) gender salience of housework.
D) outsourcing care.
Q2) Some couples choose the breadwinner/housewife arrangement even when they have egalitarian beliefs, often because
A) the alternative of being Super Mom is not practical for women of their social class or race
B) the women have been socialized to accept a move full-time to the second shift and men were socialized to be breadwinners.
C) there is a relatively large difference between what the average husband and wife earns.
D) they know that maintaining care chains helps lower income families.
Q3) How does the continued feminization of housework and childcare impact gender equality? Explain this phenomenon in your own words.
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Chapter 12: Work
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Q1) If women now have equal protection in the workplace, why aren't they as successful as men at work?
Q2) What does the concept Androcentric Pay Scale refer to?
A) the idea that business women need to act more like men in order earn equal pay
B) the correlation between average wages and the average gender composition of a job
C) the unwillingness of employers to pay women to do the most demanding jobs
D) the gender wage gap between men and women within the same occupation (different pay for equal work)
Q3) Which of the following occupations has maintained the same gendered profile since the 1970s?
A) computer programmer
B) pharmacist
C) engineer
D) medical doctor
Q4) Use the history of the flight attendant to discuss the social construction of skill.
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Chapter 13: Politics
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of how states govern gender?
A) holding elections for governors every four years
B) electing an historic number of women to legislative positions in 2013
C) collecting taxes in April of every year
D) instituting tax laws allowing married couples to keep more money than cohabitating couples
Q2) Women represent more than 40 percent of members in the legislature of which one of these countries?
A) Sierra Leone
B) United States
C) Saudi Arabia
D) Chile
Q3) CoverGirl promises girls they can do whatever they want using the hashtag #GirlsCan and the slogan "make the world a little more easy, breezy, and beautiful." This ad campaign is an example of
A) corporate co-optation of feminism.
B) active anti-feminist countermovements organized to oppose feminist social change.
C) embedded feminism
D) feminist marketing
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