Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Course Introduction
Gender and Sexuality Studies explores the social, cultural, political, and historical constructions of gender and sexuality across different contexts and time periods. Through interdisciplinary approaches, the course examines how gender identities and sexual orientations intersect with race, class, ethnicity, and other social categories to shape individual experiences and societal structures. Students engage with key theoretical frameworks, debates, and activism related to feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, and queer theory, gaining tools to critically analyze representations, institutions, and policies that impact gender and sexual diversity locally and globally.
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Sexuality Now 1st Canadian Edition by
Janell Carroll
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Chapter 1: Exploring Human Sexuality: Past and Present
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Q1) According to the Christian Bible,which statement best describes Jesus's view on sexuality?
A) He taught that men should be held to the same standards of adultery, divorce, and remarriage as women.
B) He advised that women who were caught in adultery should be stoned.
C) He generally condemned sexuality.
D) He promoted pederasty.
Answer: A
Q2) In early Puritan communities young couples were allowed to share a bed as long as they were clothed and wrapped in sheets.What was this practice called?
A) bundling
B) boarding
C) swaddling
D) courting
Answer: A
Q3) According to the nineteenth-century medical model,homosexuality is a sin.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Understanding Human Sexuality: Theory and Research
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Q1) Behavioural theorists commonly use aversion therapy to change unwanted sexuality related behaviours.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which type of theorist would most likely say "how one behaves as a man or a woman is controlled primarily by our genes"?
A) sociological
B) cognitive
C) biological
D) humanistic
Answer: C
Q3) Why are findings from the National College Health Assessment NOT generalizable?
A) The study was conducted during the 1970s.
B) Only schools from the Midwest are included.
C) Only students who use student health services are included.
D) Schools pay to participate in the study.
Answer: D
Q4) Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Freud's psychoanalytic theory.
Answer: Not provided.
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Chapter 3: Female Sexual Anatomy, Development, and Health
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Q1) Current recommendations suggest routine pap smears beginning at the age of 17.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Androgens are important for sexual development,specifically in males.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which statement best describes withdrawal bleeding,which occurs when a woman taking birth control pills stops taking them for a week?
A) It is usually greater in volume than menstrual flow for a woman who has not taken birth control for several months.
B) It does not occur if the woman takes placebo pills during that week.
C) It indicates that the woman is likely pregnant.
D) It is biologically very different from normal menstrual fluid.
Answer: D
Q4) Describe the process of sexual differentiation in a developing fetus.
Answer: Not provided.
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Chapter 4: Male Sexual Anatomy, Development, and Health
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Q1) Jay often wakes up with an erection and sometimes experiences erections throughout the night.What is the most likely reason for this?
A) Jay looks at porn before falling asleep which causes erotic dreams.
B) Jay's REM cycles occur throughout the night and right before he wakes up.
C) Jay drinks too much fluid before going to bed which causes the need to urinate and pressure in his penis.
D) Jay does not masturbate frequently enough to release built up amounts of semen.
Q2) Wayne is 50-years-old and has recently developed a painful curvature of his penis which makes penetration impossible.What would his diagnosis be?
A) priapism
B) testicular torsion
C) cryptorchidism
D) Peyronie's disease
Q3) What part of the penis is made up of the corona,frenulum,and urethral opening?
A) root
B) foreskin
C) glans penis
D) perineum
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Chapter 5: The Biology of Sex, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
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Q1) What is an explanation for cross-cultural food aversions that commonly develop during pregnancy?
A) They protect women from eating too much.
B) They protect the fetus from food-borne illness and harmful bacteria.
C) It happens more often in women who are carrying twins.
D) It happens when there is an imbalance of amniotic fluid.
Q2) The majority of births worldwide take place in hospitals.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What term refers to the idea that something is wrong with a woman if she doesn't give birth to and care for children?
A) feminine mystique
B) glass floor
C) female paradox
D) motherhood mandate
Q4) Which of the following women is most likely to breastfeed?
A) a 30-year-old married woman with a university degree
B) a 28-year-old married woman without a university degree
C) a 30-year-old single woman without a university degree
D) a 22-year-old single woman without a university degree
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Chapter 6: Contraception and Abortion
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Q1) Where would a couple be more likely to use oral contraception than condoms for birth control for religious reasons?
A) the United States
B) Israel
C) the Philippines
D) Indonesia
Q2) Which statement best describes the male sterilization procedure?
A) It is more common in the United States than female sterilization.
B) It costs about twice as much as female sterilization.
C) It involves lower rates of complications than female sterilization.
D) It is performed as an inpatient treatment whereas female sterilization is done as an outpatient procedure.
Q3) Describe three different characteristics that are at the foundation of natural family planning.
Q4) What age group has the most abortions in Canada?
A) women in their teens
B) women in their 20s
C) women in their 30s
D) women in their 40s
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Chapter 7: Sexually Transmitted Infections and Hivaids
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Q1) Which group is at higher risk of contracting hepatitis?
A) women who have sex with women
B) people with fair skin
C) housemates of someone with hepatitis
D) women taking oral contraceptives
Q2) Which statement best describes people who have a "punishment concept" of STIs?
A) They believe that STIs are the primary cause of sexual disorders.
B) They think those who develop STIs deserve them.
C) They believe it's okay to not tell ex-lovers when they find out they have an STI.
D) They feel that people who commit sex crimes should be infected with STIs as their consequence.
Q3) Which STI is also referred to as "the clap"?
A) herpes
B) gonorrhea
C) syphilis
D) chlamydia
Q4) What are common causes and long-term effect of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)?
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Chapter 8: Gender Development, Gender Roles, and
Gender Identity
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Q1) Which theory is Bem most closely associated with?
A) social learning
B) evolutionary
C) gender schema
D) feminist
Q2) Which term refers to a gender-specific behaviour that is largely determined by culture?
A) gender constant
B) gender role
C) gender stereotype
D) gender trait
Q3) Iran has one of the highest rates of sexual reassignment surgery in the world.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which statement exemplifies Margaret Mead's famous discussion about the Tchambuli tribe of New Guinea?
A) Human culture can transcend biology.
B) Some traits are innate among males and females and not likely to change.
C) Male traits are more likely to be biologically based.
D) Female traits are more likely to be biologically based.
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Chapter 9: Sexual Orientation
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Q1) People who experiment with same-sex sexual contact in the early teenage years are most likely to go on to identify as homosexual.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When people's behaviour and beliefs about their sexual orientation are in conflict,how do social scientists usually define them?
A) by their emotional attachments
B) by their sexual fantasies
C) by their sexual behaviours
D) by their sexual self-concept
Q3) Today's teens are coming out at earlier ages than during other times in history.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which Canadian Prime Minister said "There is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation"?
A) John Diefenbaker
B) Pierre Trudeau
C) Brian Mulroney
D) Stephen Harper
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Chapter 10: Childhood and Adolescent Sexuality
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Q1) What is NOT included in a typical sexuality education program for seven- and eight-year-olds in the Netherlands?
A) menstruation
B) intercourse
C) contraception
D) pornography
Q2) Experts encourage parents to be tolerant of their children's questions and behaviours related to sexuality (i.e.,genital touching).
A)True
B)False
Q3) What does research show about genital touching during infancy and early childhood (ages 2 to 5)? Be sure to include information about frequency,motivation,etc.
Q4) Comprehensive sexuality education programs typically begin in kindergarten and continue through Grade 12.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Summarize the four goals of comprehensive sexuality education programs.
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Chapter 11: Communication and Sexuality
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Q1) Discuss research concerning pickup lines and their effectiveness.
Q2) Students self-disclose on Facebook more than they would in other situations.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What do we know about the impact of gender on communication? Discuss and critique two major points brought up in the chapter.Give a real life example related to each of your points.
Q4) Who would likely be the best at decoding and translating nonverbal communication?
A) Jeremy, a 10-year-old boy
B) Morgan, a 25-year-old woman
C) Esther, a 75-year-old woman
D) Daniel, a 40-year-old man
Q5) What do critics question about Tannen's work regarding gender and communication?
A) her assumption that gender is biologically based
B) her assumption that gender is socially constructed
C) her assumption that there are no gender differences
D) her assumption that sexual orientation is biologically based
Q6) Identify and explain two obstacles to sexual communication.
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Chapter 12: Love and Intimacy
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Q1) According to recent research,what becomes stronger when people feel loved and can open up and talk with each other?
A) religious commitment
B) financial well-being
C) immune functioning
D) cultural identity
Q2) What term is used to describe love that will never be returned?
A) platonic
B) companionate
C) agape
D) unrequited
Q3) Erik says "Love is a shopping list.You go through life trying to find a partner who has all of the items on your list." According to Lee,what is Erik's love style?
A) storge
B) agape
C) pragma
D) ludic
Q4) Discuss three ways in which culture differences may impact patterns of intimacy.
Q5) Identify and describe each of John Alan Lee's colours of love.
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Chapter 13: Adult Sexual Relationships
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Q1) Sexual satisfaction in short-term intimate relationships is a strong predictor of how happy a couple is in the relationship but it is not a predictor of happiness in long-term relationships.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When choosing someone to date,a person's race has been found to be more important than his or her religion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What characterizes sex within a lesbian couple as compared to sex within a heterosexual couple?
A) Sex is more frequent and lasts longer.
B) Sex is more frequent but lasts for less time.
C) Sex is less frequent but lasts longer.
D) Sex is less frequent and lasts for less time.
Q4) Legal marriage offers the same rights same-sex couples as both domestic partnerships and civil unions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Variations of Sexual Expression
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Q1) What are two characteristics of Side B Christians?
A) They are gay and sexually active.
B) They are gay and celibate.
C) They are asexual and celibate.
D) They are asexual and sexually active.
Q2) What are teledildonics?
A) devices that link genitals to computers
B) devices that link genitals to Bluetooth connections
C) sexually explicit text conversations
D) sexual demons
Q3) Which of the following sexual fantasies is reportedly more common among men than women?
A) sex with a current partner
B) reliving a past sexual experience
C) having an aggressive partner
D) having sex on a carpeted floor
Q4) What is manual sex? Give two reasons why it is becoming more common.
Q5) A key feature of BDSM is that sexual acts occur without consent.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Challenges to Sexual Functioning
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Q1) Discuss the common attitudes that prevail related to sexuality and overall health.Explain why the commonly used Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)is often criticized for its approach to sexual disorders.
Q2) What is the name for a substance that increases,or is believed to increase,a person's sexual desire?
A) sex stimulant
B) aphrodisiac
C) vasodilator
D) enhancers
Q3) Identify two physical illnesses and explain how treatment for that illness can interfere with sexuality,both psychologically and physiologically.
Q4) Explain the difference between primary,secondary,generalizable,and situational sexual problems and give an example of each.
Q5) If a man is being treated for erectile disorder,a lack of night-time erections would be a good indicator that the underlying cause is physical.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Harmful and Antisocial Sexual Expression
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Q1) What types of treatments have been the most successful with paraphiliacs?
A) treatments that create behavioural change
B) therapy to resolve past sexuality issues
C) mentoring programs involving the paraphiliac having a "sponsor"
D) empathy training
Q2) What term refers to whipping a person as part of a sexual encounter?
A) flagellation
B) caning
C) infantilism
D) dominatrix
Q3) Define both voyeurism and exhibitionism.Describe what is meant by the following statements: "In some ways we are a voyeuristic society" and "Exhibitionism in women takes a different form."
Q4) A reverend who has been very vocal about his opposition to same-sex marriage is found to have had the same gay lover for 10 years.What type of sex scandal is this?
A) hypocrisy
B) breach-of-trust
C) illicit sex
D) harassment/coercion
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Chapter 17: Power and Sexual Coercion
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Q1) A man has been the victim of incest and,according to research,he will be more traumatized that other sexually abused men.Given this research conclusion,who was the perpetrator?
A) an uncle
B) a grandfather
C) his mother
D) his brother
Q2) What recognized psychological disorder is most often compared to sexual assault trauma syndrome?
A) anxiety disorder
B) agoraphobia disorder
C) dissociative personality disorder
D) posttraumatic stress disorder
Q3) Which two theories of sexual assault are the most similar?
A) victim precipitation and feminist
B) feminist and sociological
C) sociological and evolutionary
D) evolutionary and victim precipitation
Q4) Discuss factors that would impact the experiences of lesbian women who are sexually assaulted.
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Chapter 18: Sexual Imagery and Selling Sex
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Q1) The majority of prostitutes report that they enjoy their work.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Pornography is defined not by content but by whether it is intended to arouse.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What determines whether a piece of pornography involves "undue" exploitation of sex or sex combined with crime,horror,cruelty,or violence?
A) the law
B) community standards
C) the judge trying the case
D) the producer
Q4) What type of pornography was deemed acceptable following Regina v.Butler in 1992?
A) explicit sex with violence
B) explicit sex without violence but where subjects are dehumanized
C) explicit sex that is neither degrading or dehumanizing
D) explicit sex involving children
Q5) Discuss the link between sexual abuse and female sex work.
Q6) Identify the pros and cons of legalized sex work.
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