Sexuality and Gender Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
This course examines the complex interplay between sexuality and gender in personal, cultural, and societal contexts. Students will explore key theories and concepts related to gender identity, sexual orientation, and the ways in which power, privilege, and social norms shape understandings of sexuality and gender roles. The course covers a range of perspectives, including historical developments, intersectionality, media representations, and the impact of activism and policy. Through readings, discussions, and critical analysis, students will develop a comprehensive understanding of how sexuality and gender influence individual experiences and broader social structures.
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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) On which of the following traits do men and women exhibit the strongest sexual dimorphism?
A) vertical jumping ability
B) sexual identity and sexual object choice
C) throwing ability
D) visual-spatial abilities
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is a culturalist explanation of gender differences?
A) Culture just exaggerates the real biological differences between men and women.
B) Gender differences are consistent across cultures.
C) Culture interacts with biological processes to produce gender differences.
D) Gender differences are purely the product of learning and socialization.
Answer: D
Q3) What is gene-environment interaction?
A) the differences between men's and women's genotype
B) the influence of environmental factors on our gene expression
C) the relationship between genotype and phenotype
D) the effect of the human genome on the environment
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) 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
Q3) What is one gender strategy that is available to many attractive middle-class white women that is not as easily available to black and Asian women, based largely on how they look?
A) Wonderful Wife and Mother
B) All-American Girl
C) Supermom
D) Jock
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Chapter 6: Inequality, Men and Masculinities
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Q1) Choose the correct statement.
A) Men follow gender rules in order to police women, as part of their male privilege.
B) Men at the top of the hierarchy of men can police the gender of all the other men without fear of being censured themselves.
C) Men follow gender rules only to avoid being policed by other men.
D) Men follow gender rules as part of a patriarchal bargain in which they accept certain costs in exchange for valuable benefits.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT true of patriarchal bargains?
A) Patriarchal bargains are strategies that allow men to benefit from how they do masculinity.
B) Patriarchal bargains protect men from the fear of emasculation.
C) Patriarchal bargains still subject men to the subordination by other men.
D) Patriarchal bargains allow some men to claim a higher status than women and some other men.
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) Both women and men are constrained by the binary gender system. How do the constraints they face differ systematically? Why are women more likely to experience their constraints as unfair?
Q2) Feminists argue that we are in the middle of a stalled gender revolution in which A) about half of women embrace feminism and the opportunities it has brought them, but the other half are resisting these changes.
B) women have increasingly embraced opportunities that masculinity and masculine arenas provide, but few men have moved toward feminine options.
C) women have gotten halfway toward equality with men because they've become successful in service professions like medicine and the law, but have yet to match men's success in science and technology fields like physics and computer programming.
D) all of the above.
Q3) Explain the phenomenon of double bind. Why do the authors highlight media treatment of Hillary Clinton (who ran for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination in the United States) as an example of double bind? Provide another example of a double bind placed on women in public life and discuss how it fits this concept.
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Chapter 8: Institutions
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Q1) Sanitation-the provision of toilets and the elimination of personal waste-is an institution because
A) it involves a hierarchy of employees who are promoted according to a bureaucratic scaffolding.
B) the details of how we manage sanitation are dictated by the federal government.
C) it is found, in one form or another, throughout the world.
D) it solves a social problem that cannot easily be fixed by individuals working alone.
Q2) Which of the following is an example of an institution?
A) the Cleveland Browns
B) Wal-Mart
C) health care
D) the Academy Awards
Q3) According to sociologist Abigail Feder, women figure skaters who wear glittery leotards with short skirts perform
A) gender salience.
B) androcentrism.
C) emphatic sameness.
D) the feminine apologetic.
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Chapter 9: Change
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Q1) What impact did the publication of the Feminist Mystique have on U.S. gender relations?
A) It revealed how many American teenagers were breaking gender-specific sexual rules and thus challenged the double standard.
B) It showed that Americans of all ages were breaking the sexual rules and began to normalize same-sex relations.
C) It showed that middle-class women were frustrated and unhappy with breadwinner/housewife marriage.
D) It revealed how unhappy both women and men were with the division of labor in the breadwinner/housewife marriage.
Q2) The "cult of domesticity" refers to which of these ideas?
A) People should value domesticity over other forms of labor.
B) Women as devoted mothers and wives should make home a "heaven on Earth."
C) Women and men should have leisure at home rather than work extensive hours.
D) People should marry for love rather than for passing on property.
Q3) Marriage has been socially organized under three models. Explain each model, the reasons they emerged, and why they fell apart.
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Chapter 10: Sexualities
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Q1) Why has the erotic marketplace placed a ceiling on women's level of success?
A) Women escalate more slowly than men in a wide range of valued accomplishments.
B) Women escalate faster than men in a wide range of valued accomplishments.
C) Gendered matching rules suggest that men should be more attractive than women.
D) Gendered matching rules suggest that men should be more accomplished than women.
Q2) Why are accomplishments a disadvantage for women, but not for men?
A) New gendered imperatives suggest that women should be equal to men.
B) Relative to men, a small proportion of women have accomplishments.
C) For the average man, a woman's accomplishments make him anxious, not excited.
D) Accomplishments are more sexy in women than in men.
Q3) 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?
Q4) Is the orgasm gap an outcome of natural biological differences between men and women? Why or why not?
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Chapter 11: Families
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Q1) Which of the following statements, regarding people who specialize in unpaid household labor, is false?
A) They often feel their partners do not value their contribution toward the household.
B) They experience a loss of bargaining power and status in their relationship.
C) They overwhelmingly had planned to be a housewife or househusband.
D) They experience economic vulnerability.
Q2) 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.
Q3) In Gender, Wade and Ferree label work and family as "greedy institutions" because A) both are expensive.
B) both are designed in ways that enhance national GDP for the good of the country.
C) both make gendered demands for a great deal of an individual's time and energy.
D) both preserve the androcentric organization of economy.
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Chapter 12: Work
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Q1) The university is hiring a new employee. The department head is interviewing three candidates for the job: (a) an unmarried woman without children, (b) a married father of two, (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 and offer an explanation for your prediction.
Q2) 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.
Q3) Use the history of the flight attendant to discuss the social construction of skill.
Q4) If women now have equal protection in the workplace, why aren't they as successful as men at work?
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Chapter 13: Politics
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Q1) Which model of gender equality would be most attractive to women and men who embrace femininity?
A) equal access
B) equal value
C) equal sharing
D) equal opportunity
Q2) 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
Q3) Why is raising the minimum wage both a class issue and a feminist issue?
A) Nearly two-thirds of minimum-wage workers are women.
B) Leaving the minimum wage low contributes to the feminization of poverty.
C) Raising the minimum wage would reduce economic inequality between women and men.
D) All of the above.
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