Intersectionality Studies Final
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Course Introduction
Intersectionality Studies explores the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and more, as they apply to individuals or groups. This course examines how these overlapping identities can create unique modes of discrimination and privilege, shaping experiences within systems of power and inequality. Through theoretical frameworks, case studies, and contemporary issues, students will develop critical tools to analyze the complexity of identity and to understand how intersectionality informs social justice movements, policy-making, and institutional practices.
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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 concepts describes the capacity to assume that we are unique by reconciling our own complex identity with what is known about men and women?
A) gender binary
B) gender ideology
C) the personal exception theory of gender
D) gender identity
Answer: C
Q2) What does the Implicit Association Test (IAT) demonstrate?
A) That men and women have different brains.
B) That we unconsciously associate feminine things with one another and masculine things with one another .
C) That our gender binary glasses help us to remember things better.
D) That our brain is not well-suited to register the gender binary.
Answer: B
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) Imagine you are conducting a test in which you wish to increase the empathy scores of male participants. Which of the following interventions would you choose?
A) tell participants that the test is one in which men typically perform poorly, so try harder
B) have participants first write a fictional story
C) present statistics showing that women are attracted to empathic men
D) do the experiment in the morning
Answer: C
Q2) Men typically have stronger and denser bones than women. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A) Women are more vulnerable than men to osteoporosis.
B) Bone strength is a good example of an immutable sex difference.
C) Hormonal and genetic factors contribute to men's and women's bone health.
D) Bone health is shaped by exercise and diet.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Performance
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Q1) If men and women aren't naturally opposite, then why do they act so differently so much of the time?
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Q2) Which of the following is an example of gender policing?
A) not being hired for a job you are qualified for because you are a woman
B) a woman being told that she looks attractive in an evening gown
C) calling a guy cute rather than handsome
D) asking a guy why he shaves his legs
Answer: D
Q3) 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
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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) Why are there a lot more Supermoms than Superdads and fewer female Breadwinners than male Breadwinners?
A) Men who take care of children and do housework are praised.
B) Men who like cooking, cleaning, and raising children do this less well than women.
C) Men graduate from college in considerably higher numbers, thus setting them up to be higher wage earners.
D) Women are still held disproportionately responsible for housework and childcare.
Q3) Compare and contrast the gender stereotypes for any three of the following six U.S. groups: black women, black men, Asian women, Asian men, white women, and white men. Explain how these stereotypes shape the range of choices of gender strategies for members of each of these groups.
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Chapter 6: Inequality, Men and Masculinities
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Q1) According to researcher Michael Kaufman, "Within each group, men usually have privileges and power relative to the women in that group, but in society as a whole, things are not always so straightforward." Explain this statement and provide examples to support your explanation. Show how the examples you choose illustrate the complex workings of privileges and power to which Kaufman refers.
Q2) Which of the following groups are considered to be members of subordinated masculinities in the United States?
A) nerds, dorks, and geeks
B) older men, disabled men, and gays
C) poor men and nonwhite men
D) all of the above
Q3) One group of gay men in college formed a fraternity that allowed heterosexual men to be members, but excluded gay women from its activities. The chapter recalls this incident in order to demonstrate that
A) men usually see benefits from membership in the category 'men.'
B) men's gender is more salient than women's.
C) men who are gay really are not different from other men.
D) all of the above.
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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) The feminine apologetic is
A) sitting folded up on oneself with the legs crossed at the knee.
B) the habit of saying "I'm sorry" before stating an opinion.
C) a requirement that women balance their appropriation of masculinity with femininity.
D) a common portrayal of women in the media where they cover their mouths or indicate staying silent.
Q3) In what ways do women make patriarchal bargains in order to promote their well being and autonomy? When and how do men also engage in such bargains? Compare and contrast a pair of patriarchal bargains with one for women and one for men in their purposes and usefulness for people of each gender.
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Chapter 8: Institutions
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Q1) The phrase gender salience refers to
A) the fact that gender consistently infiltrates each part of an institution.
B) the process of neutralizing gender in institutions.
C) the process of scientifically mapping gender in the social structure.
D) the relevance of gender across activities and spaces within an institution.
Q2) 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.
Q3) Education is a gendered institution because
A) it involves organizations and social norms that persist over time.
B) it guides boys and girls into different social spaces.
C) it helps in maintaining a healthy sex ratio in society.
D) it is vital in nurturing men and women as responsible citizens.
Q4) Institutional inertia makes social change difficult and yet we see a lot of social change in gender relations in many different social institutions. How do you explain this apparent contradiction? Discuss a few of the causal forces impelling change in a social institution of your own choosing.
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Chapter 9: Change
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Q1) What best describes the gender relations of 1950s?
A) They were unusually family focused.
B) Achieving the "American dream" put more financial strain on men than ever before.
C) It was a decade of increased interest in feminism and sexual liberation.
D) Men and women grew increasingly tolerant of homosexual behavior.
Q2) Which of the following 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) Almost half of all American children today are born to an unmarried mother.
D) Almost half of all black children are born to an unmarried mother.
Q3) Why has technological change created incentives to have fewer children?
A) People can't afford more children because each child requires expensive electronics.
B) People preferred to spend their time watching TV, rather than having sex.
C) People got access to cheap and effective means of contraception.
D) People had to pay for more expensive technologies in hospitals to give birth.
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Chapter 10: Sexualities
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Q1) What is extended adolescence?
A) the period of time after high school during which young people prepare for a future in which they'll be "real" adults
B) the period of time after college during which young women think about whether they should have a career or not
C) the period of time during college during which young men want sex but don't feel mature enough actually to initiate sexual relationships
D) a midlife crisis in which men and women return to an adolescent frame of mind
Q2) 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.
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.
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Chapter 11: Families
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Q1) Why could outsourcing be called a patriarchal bargain?
A) It helps migrant communities earn a living doing domestic chores.
B) It has to be negotiated to resist the matrix of domination.
C) It does not liberate women as a group.
D) It helps build transnational care chains that reproduce patriarchy.
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) Which of the following is true about the care chain?
A) The chain is based only on a series of unpaid nurturing relationships.
B) The work of care brings more financial returns as you move down the chain.
C) The chain involves both men and women doing care work at the highest levels.
D) The work of care is feminized and devalued, whether it is paid or not.
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Chapter 12: Work
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the fatherhood premium?
A) Married fathers who live with their children earn less than married men without children at all.
B) On average, employers offer married men with children higher salaries than single men.
C) Married fathers are more likely to keep their jobs than married men without children.
D) Men with children earn more than women with children.
Q2) The gender pay gap
A) is similar in every U.S. state.
B) differs only by race and ethnicity.
C) shrinks as women get more education.
D) tends to grow larger over the course of a career.
Q3) If women now have equal protection in the workplace, why aren't they as successful as men at work?
Q4) Are discrimination against women and discrimination against mothers in the job market two separate, important phenomena or just two names for the same thing? Make a case for the similarities and differences that you think matter most and why. Use concepts and empirical evidence from the chapter to shape your answer.
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Chapter 13: Politics
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Q1) In what ways has women's symbolic representation translated into substantive representation?
A) Female legislators introduce fewer but better bills than men.
B) Women now hold more than 40 percent of seats in most international legislative bodies.
C) Women are more likely than men to introduce bills that address women's needs.
D) In most countries, women legislators have formed a unified voting bloc.
Q2) What kind of difference, if any, would the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment make in the governance of gender in the United States?
A) None; the United States already has strong antidiscrimination laws.
B) It would undermine the strength and reason for women's movements to exist.
C) It would constitutionally guarantee gender equality and increase the burden of proof on employers and others to show they are not discriminating.
D) It would eradicate anti-feminist countermovements because it would make clear that their claims violate the Constitution.
Q3) Give concrete examples of three of the obstacles that contemporary feminists face. Discuss what it might take to overcome these obstacles and create more opportunities for feminist activism.
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