Women's and Gender Studies
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Course Introduction
This course offers an interdisciplinary exploration of issues related to women, gender, and sexuality, examining their intersections with race, class, and other identities. Students will critically analyze historical and contemporary debates on gender roles, feminist theories, and social justice movements. Through readings, discussions, and research, the course fosters a deeper understanding of how gender influences personal experiences, societal structures, and cultural norms both locally and globally.
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Gender Ideas Interactions Institutions 2nd Edition by Lisa Wade
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Chapter 1: Ideas
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Q1) If the gender binary doesn't describe a large number of the people we know,where does the idea come from?
Answer: Answers should discuss how the gender binary is an ideology,a set of shared beliefs about society,and we are socialized into the binary.It's a social construction,and not a biological reality.
Q2) Research suggests that __________ are more likely to be remembered,and remembered correctly,than __________.
A)nonbinary experiences;gender binary experiences
B)gender fluid experiences;cisgender experiences
C)stereotype-consistent experiences;stereotype-inconsistent experiences
D)stereotype-inconsistent experiences;stereotype-consistent experiences
Answer: C
Q3) How do transgender people provide evidence that the gender binary fails to describe reality?
A)They have chromosomes that do not match either XX or XY.
B)Their gender identities don't match their perceived sex.
C)Their gender identities always match their perceived sex.
D)They have chromosomes that match either XX or XY.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Bodies
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Q1) Researchers have observed differences in the visual-spatial abilities of men and women,such as in performing the task of mental rotation.What is the most plausible cause of such differences?
A)Cognitive skills are best explained by hormone levels,and men have higher levels of testosterone than women.
B)Cognitive skills correspond with the right side of the brain,and men and women tend to use different sides of their brains.
C)Cognitive skills are shaped by evolution,and through gender-specific practices,men's brains have evolved differently than women's brains.
D)Cognitive skills are affected by instruction and practice,and men are more likely than women to engage in activities that develop the skill of mental rotation.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Performances
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Q1) How does one "do gender" in society?
A)Doing gender means that we actively obey,and do not break,gender rules.
B)Doing gender means that we passively obey,and also break,gender rules.
C)Doing gender means that we actively obey,and also break,gender rules.
D)Doing gender means that we actively break gender rules and do not obey any of them.
Answer: B
Q2) If men and women aren't naturally opposite,then why do they act so differently so much of the time?
Answer: Here students' answers should draw upon how doing gender can become habitual,how it can be pleasurable for some people,and/or that we act differently because of encouragement and punishment from others around us.
Q3) The __________ model of socialization suggests that socialization is a lifelong process of learning and relearning gendered expectations.
A)biological
B)injection
C)learning
D)nurturing
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Intersections
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Q1) What conditions make it more likely that Julia will adopt a Family Focused gender strategy?
A)if she faces limited job opportunities and is married to a man with a high-paying job
B)if she faces limited job prospects and is recently divorced
C)if she is promoted to partner at a law firm and her husband is promoted to CEO at a marketing firm
D)if she is promoted to partner at a law firm and her husband works irregularly as a plumber
Q2) Immigrant couples often abandon Breadwinner/Supportive Spouse strategies in favor of economic interdependence when they arrive in the United States.What is one reason why couples do so?
A)They experience racism from American society.
B)They feel pressured by compulsory heterosexuality.
C)They are adjusting to a new economic class.
D)They are practicing ableism.
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Chapter 5: Inequality: Men and Masculinities
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Q1) According to the hierarchy of masculinity,which man is at the top of the hierarchy?
A)a
well-educated,tall,affluent,white,heterosexual,able-bodied,fit,Christian,nonimmigrant man
B)a well-educated,tall,affluent,nonwhite,heterosexual,able-bodied,fit,Christian,nonimmigrant man
C)a blue-collar,tall,strong,white,heterosexual,able-bodied,fit,Christian,nonimmigrant man
D)a blue-collar,tall,strong,nonwhite,heterosexual,able-bodied,fit,Christian,nonimmigrant man
Q2) In the United States,the typical bathroom symbol indicating a men's room is the same as the generic symbol for person (in crosswalk lights,for instance).This is an example of
A)the symbolic marginalization of women.
B)the salience of men's,but not women's,gender.
C)the important role patriarchy plays in our daily lives.
D)the enactment of democratic brotherhood.
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Chapter 6: Inequality: Women and Femininities
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Q1) In what ways do women make patriarchal bargains in order to promote their well-being and autonomy? Compare and contrast three ways in which women can make a patriarchal bargain and assess which strategy you think would be more effective for a woman working as the only female chemical engineer at a chemical company.
Q2) Does conventional femininity help or hurt women in their fight against misogyny?
A)Conventional femininity hurts women because it only offers them the choice of being a victim,as women are socialized to be helpless and need protection from men.
B)Conventional femininity hurts women because it offers them the choice of being a helpless victim who needs male protection or a powerful and assertive pariah who is shunned by others.
C)Conventional femininity helps women because it encourages them to recognize how powerful they are.
D)Conventional femininity helps women because it encourages them to be strong,assertive,and masculine.
Q3) Both women and men are constrained by the binary gender system.How do the constraints they face differ systematically? Whose constraints do you find more unfair? Make sure to provide detailed reasoning to justify your conclusion.
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Chapter 7: Institutions
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Q1) What is common to elementary schools,bathrooms,and bodybuilding?
A)They are governed more by gender policies than gender norms.
B)They contribute toward diluting the matrix of domination.
C)They affirm gender difference.
D)They protect the idea that women are equal to men.
Q2) How do elementary schools demonstrate the important role gender salience plays in institutions?
A)All aspects of school are heavily gendered,from uniforms to classroom seating to play on the playground.
B)Gender is very important in the classroom,but much less so on the playground.
C)Boys' social interactions are not influenced by gender,but girls' social interactions are.
D)Gender is very important on the playground,but less so in the classroom.
Q3) Do you believe it's possible to just be an individual in today's society? Why or why not?
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 8: Change
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Q1) Which of the following best 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)About forty percent of all American children today are born to an unmarried parent.
D)About forty percent of all black children are born to an unmarried parent.
Q2) Which of the following definitions best describes a breadwinner/housewife marriage?
A)Women are legally subordinated to men.
B)Women offer men domestic services and men support them financially.
C)Women marry by choice and expect love in their relationship.
D)Women can only meet the expectations of their role by staying at home full-time nurturing children.
Q3) How has urbanization created incentives to have fewer children?
A)Moving to cities makes people less religious.
B)Raising children in cities is more expensive.
C)More men than women live in cities.
D)Cities are less safe for children.
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Chapter 9: Sexualities
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Q1) How can racial stereotypes about black and Latino men's sexuality be a double-edged sword?
A)Hypermasculinity is both sexually attractive and sexually frightening.
B)Hypermasculinity makes men more sexually skilled,but also less likely to be desired.
C)Hypermasculinity is sexually attractive to gay men,but not heterosexual women.
D)Hypermasculinity is sexually attractive to heterosexual women,but not gay men.
Q2) Describe two contemporary advertisements or programs you have encountered in the media that you believe contribute significantly to processes of sexual liberation and/or sexual objectification.Explain clearly how they do so.Use your examples also to consider whether these effects are similar or different for women and men of different racial groups and why this would be the case.
Q3) Is the orgasm gap an outcome of natural biological differences between men and women? Why or why not?
Q4) What is sexual objectification?
A)the process by which people,especially women,are reduced to their sex appeal
B)the process by which women internalize a heterosexual orientation
C)the process by which people find someone attractive and sexually desirable
D)the process by which men define a particular object as sexually desirable
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Chapter 10: Families
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Q1) Compare and contrast how a traditionalist,a neo-traditionalist,an egalitarian,and a dual-nurturer divides labor in the home.In the development of your answers,discuss factors that will influence the likelihood a couple will employ a particular strategy.
Q2) Explain the ideology of intensive motherhood.How does this ideology view the role of the mother? Do you believe that this ideology is sexist? Is it androcentric? Why or why not?
Q3) Lila is __________.She is looking for a relationship in which both she and her male partner will do their fair share of breadwinning,housekeeping,and child rearing.
A)a dual nurturer
B)an egalitarian
C)a neo-traditionalist
D)a traditionalist
Q4) In 2016,the birthrate was the lowest recorded in the last thirty years.Give at least three potential explanations for the rise in the decision to be childfree in the United States.What kind of societal changes might reverse or at least stop this downward trend in births?
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Chapter 11: Work
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Q1) The textbook authors write: "Gendered job segregation in itself . . . isn't sufficient to explain the pay gap.It's only the start." Explain this statement.How does gender segregation relate to the gender gap in pay? What other factors are important in explaining the pay gap?
Q2) The practice of filling occupations with mostly male or mostly female workers is A)illegal but rarely prosecuted.
B)rare since the Civil Rights Act was passed.
C)common because collectively we understand jobs as being either masculine or feminine.
D)impossible to prevent,since men and women naturally have different abilities and interests.
Q3) Andrea is complaining to a friend about being placed on the "mommy track." What in particular is Andrea upset about?
A)the extra housework that women have,in addition to paid work outside the house
B)a career path with fewer opportunities for raises,promotions,or even equal pay
C)an average decrease in women's salaries with every child they have
D)the interruptions that occur in women's work lives because men do not share childcare equally
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Chapter 12: Politics
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Q1) Explain the difference between the gender of governance and the governance of gender.Discuss two ways that the United States governs in gendered ways.Give one example of how the gender of governance is related to the symbolic and substantive representation of women in politics in the United States or some other country.
Q2) Many suffragists were also abolitionists,and vice versa.An abolitionist can be defined as
A)a person who works to secure the right to vote.
B)an activist in the fight against human slavery.
C)someone who tries to end sexism by reducing sex discrimination.
D)an activist in the fight against androcentrism.
Q3) Please describe the parental leave policy in the United States.In particular,address whether the policy offers paid leave,how long the leave lasts,and who is eligible.Then,evaluate if you think this policy is pro-natal.Make sure to explain why you think it is or is not.If you think it is not,make sure to address what changes you think could make it more pro-natal.
Q4) 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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