Gender Studies
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Course Introduction
Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the social, cultural, historical, and political constructions of gender and sexuality. The course explores concepts such as identity, power, intersectionality, and representation, considering how gender influences and is influenced by factors including race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Students engage with key feminist and queer theories, analyze global and local gendered practices, and critically reflect on contemporary issues related to gender equality, activism, and policy. The course encourages the development of analytical skills and self-awareness, empowering students to recognize and challenge gender-based assumptions and inequalities in various contexts.
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Gendered Lives 10th Edition by Julia T. Wood
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Chapter 1: The Study of Communication, Gender, and Culture
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Q1) What does it mean to say,"meanings are constructed through human interaction with symbols"? Why is this significant for our understanding of gender?
Answer: This statement means that the meaning of ideas,concepts,and things are not inherent.They are built culturally through interactions that produce a shared understanding.For example,red roses are not inherently connected to love,but in the U.S.,we have decided that giving someone red roses is a gesture of romantic love.This idea is important for our understanding of gender because it points out that what we agree is masculine or male and feminine or female is socially agreed upon but not the inherent truth.It may change across cultures,over time,and in different contexts.
Q2) Historically and in all cultures,women have been the primary caretakers of young children.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Cisgendered
Answer: A person whose biological sex and gender identity are consistent.The term draws attention to the taken-for-granted assumption that all people experience consistency between sex,gender and social orientation.
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Chapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to Gender Development
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Q1) According to Standpoint theory
A) People with the most social privilege are most likely to develop an oppositional stance toward existing power structures.
B) People who are privileged in some ways but disadvantaged in others are most likely to develop an oppositional stance toward existing power structures.
C) People with the least social privilege are most likely to develop an oppositional stance toward existing power structures.
D) No group is more likely than another to develop an oppositional stance toward existing power structures.
Answer: C
Q2) 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 Genderwomens
Movements in America
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Q1) 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
Q2) Liberal feminist ideology claims that women and men are alike in all important respects and so should have equal rights.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q3) Womanists address issues that affect working and lower-class women.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Lesbian feminists believe that it is not possible to reform America's patriarchal culture.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gendermens
Movements in America
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Q1) Mentors in Violence Protection (MVP)believe that men are socialized to be violent in U.S.society.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Fathers 4 Justice is a male feminist organization.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Traitorous identity
Q4) Free Men believe that men are discriminated against,although not as much as women are.
A)True
B)False
Q5) This branch of the men's movement encourages men to develop the emotional capacities that society approves of in women but discourages in men.
A) Mythopoetic men
B) The White Ribbon Campaign
C) Free Men
D) Profeminist Men
E) Postfeminist Men
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Chapter 5: Gendered Verbal Communication
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Q1) Tag question
Q2) The extent to which we speak in a masculine or a feminine style varies depending on context and other factors.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Those who exhibit the feminine speech community tendency to speak in a tentative manner are displaying low self-confidence.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Compare and contrast the rules of communication that are promoted in games typically played by boys and games typically played by girls.Discuss the implications of these games for communication by adult women and men.
Q5) Minimal response cues
Q6) Gender-linked language effect
Q7) Wood argues that language defines men and women differently.Explain the different ways men and women are defined and provide examples to support your claims.
Q8) Speech community
Q9) Polarized thinking
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Chapter 6: Gendered Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) People from which demographic group are most likely to strive to achieve unrealistic body ideals?
A) African American women
B) Caucasian women
C) African American men
D) Caucasian men
E) A and B
Q2) Verbal communication conveys the majority of the total meaning during an interaction.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Territoriality
Q4) 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.
Q5) Paralanguage
Q6) Proxemics
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Chapter 7: Becoming Gendered: The Early Years
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Q1) Derek is frustrated because his girlfriend wants him to speak openly about his feelings,but his male friends make fun of him for showing.Which of the following elements of masculine socialization in the U.S.best describes both of these pressures Derek feels?
A) don't be female
B) be aggressive
C) follow the boy code
D) embody and transcend traditional views of masculinity
E) be successful
Q2) Ego boundaries
Q3) Identification
Q4) Sons perceive their fathers as more affectionate than fathers perceive themselves. A)True
B)False
Q5) According to some counselors,pressure to live up to ideals of masculinity has led to an epidemic of hidden male depression.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Social Aggression
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Chapter 8: Gendered Education Communication in Schools
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Q1) College men often face pressure from their peers to:
A) Drink alcohol to excess.
B) Participate in intermural sports.
C) Earn top grades.
D) Work a wage-paying job in addition to attending classes.
E) Cut classes.
Q2) The more prestigious the institution,the more likely it is that the faculty will be diverse,including many women and racial minorities.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Peer pressure enacted by college women emphasizes being attractive to men over class work and career preparation.In addition,some female college students discover that their career goals are not taken seriously.These factors comprise ____,which researchers believe help explain these young women's lower ambitions after college.
A) effortless perfection
B) the culture of romance
C) the hidden curriculum
D) both A & B
E) none of the above
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Chapter 9: Gendered Close Relationships
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Q1) In cross-sex friendships,women generally talk less than men.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Typically,men do not value friendships as much as women.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What explains the fact that in heterosexual co-habitating couples,women continue to do the bulk of the domestic labor?
A) gender ideologies
B) women's alternatives to relationships
C) equity
D) the ideology of "choice"
E) all of the above
Q4) Socialization into gendered speech communities can make it challenging for men and women to be friends.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Mommy Myth
Q6) Co-rumination
Q7) Covert intimacy
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Chapter 10: Gendered Organizational Communication
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Q1) Affirmative action laws ____.
A) attempt to redress past discrimination for members of historically marginalized groups
B) apply only to individuals, not groups that have experienced discrimination
C) judge organizations by the intent of their hiring, admission, and promotion practices rather than end results
D) sometimes result in unqualified candidates being hired, admitted, or promoted
E) mandate a number of people that must be hired, admitted, or promoted at an organization
Q2) Glass walls is a metaphor to describe ____.
A) invisible barrier to women's advancement in the workplace
B) a new technology that lets supervisors monitor employees
C) the difference in pay that women and men receive for the same job
D) sex segregation of jobs based on stereotypes of women
E) leave policies that discourage men from taking family leave
Q3) How might gendered stereotypes contribute to more subtle forms of discrimination practiced in organizations today? Explain two stereotypes each for women and for men.Provide an example of how they might be enacted in organizational life.How does each of these limit opportunities?
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Chapter 11: Gendered Media
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Q1) Which of the following is true about American's use of media?
A) Most American homes have at least one television.
B) In the majority of American homes, a television is on more than eight hours each day.
C) Most American teenagers use the Internet daily.
D) Video games often generate more money than top grossing films.
E) All of the above.
Q2) Which of the following is true about media portrayals of men and women?
A) Black men are just as likely as white men to be cast in leading roles now.
B) In advertising, men are portrayed as authorities on homemaking tasks.
C) News coverage of women who have been targets of violence tends to focus on their strength and courage.
D) Television shows today focus equally on men's and women's careers.
E) All of the above
Q3) Men and women tend to use media differently.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Immersive advertising
Q5) Mommy track
Q6) Agenda-setting
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Chapter 12: Gendered Power and Violence
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Q1) Which of the following statements is/are true about intimate partner violence?
A) Victims of battering would be safer if they left abusive relationships.
B) Intimate partner violence is associated with traditional masculinity.
C) Intimate partner abuse occurs primarily in working and poverty economic classes.
D) Intimate partner violence often stops without intervention.
E) Intimate partner violence is often an isolated incident.
Q2) Sexual assault
Q3) "Corrective" rape
Q4) Cycle of abuse
Q5) Rape culture
Q6) Victims of battering would be safer if they left abusive relationships.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Sexual slavery is a thing of the past.
A)True
B)False
Q8) What is the definition of rape in our state? What assumptions does this definition make?
Q9) Pornography
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Chapter 13: Epilogue-looking Backward, Looking Forward
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Q1) Queer performative theory argues that gender is performed; at the same time,gender performances are enacted within a context that defines the possibilities that exist and what gender means.Reflect on an instance of gender performance that you think may broaden gender norms and discuss how this performance works with cultural norms to push gender boundaries.This gender performance may be real (Lady Gaga comes to mind)or hypothetical.
Q2) The textbook and the class have discussed ways gender norms have changed as a result of feminist and men's movements.Name what you believe to be the three most significant changes that have resulted from these movements and explain why you believe they are significant.
Q3) Most people agree that women and men are essentially the same and therefore should be treated the same.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Voice
Q5) Gatekeepers
Q6) Identify three forms of power discussed in the Epilogue of your Gendered Lives textbook.Provide examples of each form of power.
Q7) "Salad bowl" metaphor
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Chapter 14: Introduction: Opening the Conversation
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Q1) Being feminist is in conflict with being feminine.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Socially constructed
Q3) Inclusive language
Q4) What reasons does the author of your textbook provide for preferring the term "partner" to terms such as "spouse," "husband," or "wife?"
Q5) If everyone could become aware of gender inequality,it would no longer exist.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The Industrial Revolution transformed social views of the essence of masculinity from ____ to ____.
A) courage to strength
B) physical strength to ability to earn an income
C) intelligence to physical strength
D) ambition to attractiveness
E) none of the above
Q7) Explain what the author of Gendered Lives means when she writes that privilege and disadvantage are unearned.
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