gender final

The narrative of Western sexual exceptionalism creates which of the following ideas?

"The West" has progressive, free attitudes and policies towards sex and sexuality, while the rest of the world is backward and barbaric

According to Joan Jacobs Brumberg in her article "Breast Buds and the 'Training' Bra," "age homogeneity" in terms of fashion means which of the following

-Girls are sexualized at an early age -girls 'dress up' in the clothes of adult women -adult women 'dress down' in th e clothes of children -ALL OF THE ABOVE

According to Nicole Danille Schott, dieting is a strategy that women use to obtain which of the following ("Race, Online Space, and the Feminine")?

-acceptance -attention of men -power -credibility is the workforce -ALL of THE ABOVE

post modern feminism

-pays attention to how language constructs reality -Emphasizes identity is multifaceted -emphasize truth is a relative concept

The Black Lives Matter movement is committed to the inclusion of

-trans women -girls -and queer people

EC or the "morning-after pill" was approved by the FDA in the late 1990s.

1998

Latinas earn approximately what percentage of white men's median salaries?

53%

Chapter One makes the case that "women" is still a necessary aspect of "women's and gender studies"? Why is it necessary?

Because we live in a androcentric society

According to Gina Crosley-Corcoran ("Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person"), recognizing our own privilege means

Being aware of the opportunities we have that we didnt earn

What disease discussed in Chapter 7 on women and health is discussed in the context of corporate responsibility and environmental issues?

Breast cancer

Who among the following has been considered an antifeminist writer?

Camille Paglia

Drag is a cultural practice that does not

Cater to brides and bachelorette parties as the intended audience

The "psy sciences" are a form of institutional power because they

Classify individuals are "normal or devient"

According to Gina Crosley-Corcoran ("Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person"), intersectionality can help us

Complicate our understanding of white privilege

CEDAW is a global treaty or convention on women's status. It stands for Convention on the

Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women

Which of these women did J. Edgar Hoover describe as one of the most dangerous women in America during the early 20th century?

Emma Goldman

Which of the following is not a disadvantage of the "wave" approach to describe feminist activity?

Encourages resistance by traditional religious organizations

Nicole Danielle Schott argues in "Race, Online Space, and the Feminine" that dieting becomes a trap for women because

Extreme thinness is equated with mental illness

The United States ratified CEDAW in 2008 at the start of President Obama's first presidential term.

FALSE

Audre Lorde, author of "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression," emphasizes that our children need to resemble or learn to be like each other in order to work together for a future they will share.

False

In "The Cult of Virginity," Jessica Valenti explains that she was lucky because no one in her high school knew about her first sexual experience and were therefore unable to criticize her actions.

False

Robert Bird and Frank Newport ("What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class?") note that a person's gender affects the way they describe their social class.

False

The introduction of the term Latinx resulted in its immediate, widespread use.

False

The woman in the poem "Don't Laugh, It's Serious She Says" is 70 years old.

False

The women in the poem "Don't Laugh, It's Serious She Says" is on the lookout to attract young men in their 20s.

False

Third wave feminism has its origins in the lives of the baby boomer generation of the 1960s and 1970s.

False

Which of the following is not one of the myths associated with feminism as discussed in Chapter One?

Feminists are greedy and want to make money

Which of the following examples was used by Patricia Hill Collins as a way to explain systems of privilege and inequality and issues of entitlement?

Helping another student pick out a sweater

In "Toward a New Vision," Patricia Hill Collins writes about the symbolic dimension of systems of oppression. This is the same as the

Ideological realm

Postmodernism is a perspective that

Investigates the relationship between knowledge and power

The late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century women's organization NWSA continues today as

League of Women Voters

Patriarchy can be defined as

Male domination

Vivian M. May ("Intersectionality") critiques which author known for her classic article "Oppression"?

Marilyn Frye

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was written by

Mary Wollstonecraft

The term for the hatred of women is

Misogyny

When people don't fit neatly into society's "gender continuum model" (the clearly defined binaries that dictate gender and sexual expression) which of the following is usually not the response?

Reverence

What Supreme Court ruling removed the states' ban on abortion?

Roe v. Wade

The cultural acceptance of men being able to date much younger women is an example of privilege associated with which two systems of inequality and privilege?

Sexism and Ageism

The feminist theoretical perspective that combines radical feminism and the insights of a class analysis is:

Socialist feminism

Legal changes brought about in part as a result of the women's movement include

The Equal pay act (1963)

A strategy of liberal feminism is working within the system for change.

True

Evin Taylor ("Cisgender Privilege") uses the "invisible knapsack" model of Peggy McIntosh in this reading.

True

Teodor Mladenov's article "Disability and Social Justice" is a response to the Leap Manifesto.

True

The hormone "patch" such as OrthoEvra must be changed

Weekly

In "If Men Could Menstruate," Gloria Steinem argues that male menstruation would be

a positive event

Ellen Bass's poem "Gate C22" challenges which "regime of truth" relating to sex and intimacy?

ageism

According Sarah Combellick-Bidney, author of "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights," telling stories of individuals in the Global South can help bolster the connection between human rights and reproductive rights because stories help

all of the above

In "On Being Transnational and Transgender," Don Operario and Tooru Nemoto argue that transgender rights must be acknowledged within a larger human rights framework in order to

all of the above

In "The Cult of Virginity," Jessica Valenti argues that valuing female virginity is analogous to valuing female passivity because

all of the above

Young women receive cultural messages that they are supposed to be

all of the above

Audre Lorde's essay "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression" illustrates which of the following?

all of the above -problems associeted with hetrosexism -problems associated with horizontal hostility -Problems associated with rasism

Examples of internal colonialism include:

all of the above -removal of native people from indigenous lands -classification of migrants frmo Mexico as illegal -Importation of black slaves

Biological determinism implies

biology determines culture

Institutions pattern systems of inequality and privilege in which of the following ways

both a and b

The terms postfeminism implies

both a and b

When Audre Lorde writes, "when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you," in "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression," she attempts to

both a and b

The bootstrap myth is a discourse of U.S. institutional power that

both b and d

The bootstrap myth is a discourse of U.S. institutional power that

both c and d

Regimes of truth are also known as

categories of meaning

What laws regulated contraception in the U.S.?

comstock laws

The contraceptive practice that protects against HIV infection is:

condom

The Hyde Amendment and accompanying Supreme Court ruling (Beal v. Doe, 1977) gave the states the right to

decide whether medicaid funds would be spent on abortion

The poem, "Don't Laugh, It's Serious She Says," by Ellie Mamber illustrates which of the following concepts?

double standard of aging

In "Lesbian Landscape," Janice M. Gould notes that she first had romantic feelings for a woman she met

during a girl scout trip

Jallicia Jolly ("On Forbidden Wombs and Transnational Reproductive Justice") argues that a transnational approach to reproductive justice will allow scholars and activists to

envision strategies to support multiply marginalized women of color across the world

A poll about feminist attitudes found that somewhat less than half of women polled agreed that feminism had made their lives better.

false

Aisha Wagner ("Doctors Need to Talk Openly about Race") celebrates the intensive education she received in medical school that explained and validated the Black community's distrust of the medical practitioners.

false

Although top U.S. CEOs make a lot of money, their compensation tends to be slightly lower than comparable European CEOs.

false

An economically privileged, heterosexual white man can be classified as a target member in groups where difference is stratified

false

Androcentrism in health care implies the ways the health care system in the U.S. is set up to maintain the privileges of white people and provide differential access for people of color.

false

Anna Swartz ("This Is the Hidden Financial Cost of Being an LGBTQ American Today") reports that LQBTQ workers have the same rate of unemployment as the overall population.

false

Approximately 2,000 women become pregnant every year because of rape.

false

As a result of environmental toxins, the average man has 20% more testosterone than his father did 20 years ago.

false

Cross-national comparisons about the gender division of household labor show Russian men doing the most hours of housework per week.

false

Evin Taylor ("Cisgender Privilege") focuses on the intersections of gender and race.

false

Feminists are overwhelmingly supportive of international efforts to modernize societies and improve women's liberation.

false

Feminists have set up Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) to support women's choices for abortion.

false

Gina Crosley-Corcoran ("Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person") self-identifies as a middle-class woman explaining white privilege to a broke white person.

false

Imperialism is defined as the confluence of ethnocentrism and misogyny.

false

In "Claiming an Education," Adrienne Rich emphasizes that there are three parts to her contract that include: costs of student education, appropriate housing, and safety on campus.

false

In "Forty Years Since Fat Is a Feminist Issue," Susie Orbach scoffs at the idea that there is a correlation between a woman's body hatred and her vulnerability to sexual assault.

false

In "Race, Online Space, and the Feminine," author Nicole Danielle Schott argues that black women who participate in "thinspiration" are rejecting whiteness as the norm for status and privilege.

false

In "The Cult of Virginity," Jessica Valenti explains that she was lucky because no one in her high school knew about her first sexual experience and were therefore unable to criticize her actions.

false

In her article "Queering Black Female Heterosexuality," Kimberly Springer applauds artists like Queen Latifah who present positive role models for black women.

false

In her article "Queering Black Female Heterosexuality," Kimberly Springer focuses on the need for women to resist compulsory heterosexuality and come out as "queer."

false

In her article on women and education Adrienne Rich emphasizes that students have the right to receive an education.

false

In his article "Disability and Social Justice," Teodor Mladenov argues that disability is not a category of oppression on the same level of gender, race, and class.

false

Institutions can be defined as messages that shape our understandings of social life.

false

International laws offer strict protections for the reproductive rights of people affected with HIV/AIDS (Sarah Combellick-Bidney/"Reproductive Rights as Human Rights").

false

Jamie Lindemann Nelson argues that she adheres to the fundamental truth that there are only two genders and that everyone must have one or the other ("Understanding Transgender and Medically Assisted Gender Transition").

false

Men and women interrupt each other at about the same rate in mixed-sex conversations.

false

Misogyny is defined as the social organization of gender in society.

false

Muscle dysmorphia is the term for women's fear of being overly muscled.

false

Occupational segregation by gender implies the same concept as vertical segregation.

false

One of the two central components of feminism is a reallocation of power to women over men.

false

Queer women's activist leadership is a new phenomenon

false

RU-486 (mifeprex TM) is a type of emergency contraception or "morning-after pill."

false

Robert Bird and Frank Newport ("What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class?") argue that U.S. social classes are made up of well-defined, well-understood categories.

false

Sarah Combellick-Bidney's article "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights" provides a comprehensive description of reproductive rights in the Global South.

false

Scholars call jobs performed by gays and lesbians "pink collar" jobs.

false

Sexual terrorism is the threat of rape and sexual assault that controls primarily lesbians' lives.

false

Studies find that female steroid use is not more likely to be related to appearance management than male steroid use.

false

Susie Orbach ("Forty Years Since Fat Is a Feminist Issue") celebrates the tremendous progress that women have made over the past forty years with regard to fat shaming and beauty standards.

false

The "bootstrap myth" implies that everyone deserves to have an equal piece of the pie within a democracy.

false

The Age Discrimination Act is specifically set up to in order to protect individuals who are 65 years of age and older.

false

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) passed in 1965.

false

The Black Lives Matter movement has three main leaders.

false

The concept of the politics of sexuality is used primarily to explain power in lesbian and gay male relationships.

false

The double standard of beauty means that the bodies of white women are valued twice as much as women of color.

false

The increase in women workers as a result of World War I produced important lasting changes for women's labor force participation.

false

The integration of Women's and Gender Studies knowledge has occurred mostly in the biological and physical sciences.

false

The kind of sexual harassment where sexual favors are required for employment or promotion is an example of hostile work environment.

false

The medical community has historically treated transgender as an illness ("Understanding Transgender and Medically Assisted Gender Transition").

false

The social codes of early America excluded women from much paid labor.

false

The strategy of "add women and stir" associated with the development of women's studies knowledge is the most serious challenge to traditional knowledge and its truth claims.

false

The text reports that only 10% of the female population in our society weighs in at the average fashion model's weight given her height.

false

The women in the poem "Don't Laugh, It's Serious She Says" is on the lookout to attract young men in their 20s.

false

Transnational feminist perspectives support the notion of "universal sisterhood."

false

Vermont is the only state that allows gay marriage.

false

Women received the vote with the Sixteenth Amendment in 1920.

false

When males in the family perform masculine tasks and women perform feminine tasks, this is an example of

gendered division labor

When did the Supreme Court remove the ban on contraceptives for married persons?

mid 1960s

As explained in Chapter 2, hate groups in the U.S. include all but which of the following?

none, all of the above are U.S. hate groups

Aisha Wagner ("Doctors Need to Talk Openly about Race") discusses the ways that people of color have been discriminated against in the healthcare system. Which of the following is not related to a discriminatory practice?

none, they all related to discriminatory practices

The Latin prefix "cis" (Evin Taylor/"Cisgender Privilege") means literally

on this side

Eugenics is the practice and belief that:

only certain groups should reproduce

A primary focus of a "third wave" feminist agenda is on

sexuality and identity

Gina Crosley-Corcoran ("Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person") argues that white privilege

should not be confused with class privilege

Sexuality is

socially constructed

In her article "'I Click and Post and Breathe,'" Minh-Ha T. Pham argues that selfies such as those that are featured on #feministselfie are

transformative

"Micro" means focusing on the level of individuals and "macro" means focusing on the large-scale, societal levels.

true

A focus on "junior figure control" included a girl's breasts, waist, hips, and buttocks (Joan Jacobs Brumberg/"Breast Buds and the 'Training' Bra").

true

A strategy of liberal feminism is working within the system for change.

true

According to Jessica Valenti in "The Cult of Virginity," establishing paternity is a key factor in understanding societal attitudes about virginity.

true

According to the authors of "The Complexities of Sexual Consent among College Students," college students are most vulnerable to sexual assault during their first year of college.

true

According to the authors of "The Complexities of Sexual Consent among College Students," there are no universally accepted definitions for the terms sexual assault, rape, or sexual battery.

true

Activists on the right have claimed the term "patriarchy" to argue that gender ranking is ordained by God or biology.

true

Affirmative action policies are initiated to increase the numbers of people in certain occupations from a similarly qualified pool.

true

Aisha Wagner ("Doctors Need to Talk Openly about Race") notes that Black women are three times more likely to die because of pregnancy-related causes than White women.

true

Androcentrism implies putting men on center and confusing maleness with humanity.

true

Anti-miscegenation laws in the U.S. have maintained racism and racist practices.

true

As a result of lawsuits associated with unanticipated side effects, the maker of Norplant no longer markets this device in the United States.

true

Audre Lorde, author of "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression," is a black, lesbian mother and poet.

true

Being a member of a target group implies being in a position of subordination vis-à-vis the mythical norm.

true

Black women's studies grew out of the critique of lack of inclusivity on the part of traditional women's studies programs.

true

By 1900 about 1 in 5 females aged 10 years and over was a paid employee.

true

Categories such as gender, race, and sexual orientation are socially constructed.

true

College students often expect a level of emotional support from female professors that they do not expect from male professors (Rose Hackman/"'Women Are Just Better at This Stuff': Is Emotional Labor Feminism's New Frontier?").

true

False Conversion disorder is a modern-day diagnosis for hysteria (Kate Horowitz/"Performance of a Lifetime").

true

Female attorneys tend to be in different specialties from male colleagues, which is an example of vertical segregation.

true

Francis Ray White ("The Future of Fat Sex") notes that the medical establishment uses penile-vaginal intercourse as the standard for sexual function or dysfunction.

true

Francis Ray White ("The Future of Fat Sex") reports that most medical studies on the relationship between obesity and sexual function use heterosexual couples as the norm.

true

Gina Crosley-Corcoran's essay "Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person" responds to Peggy McIntosh's famous article on white privilege.

true

Imperialism can be defined as the economic, military, political and/or cultural domination over nations.

true

In "I Click and Post and Breathe," Minh-Ha T. Pham argues that participatory media changes the power relationship between the viewer and the person being viewed.

true

In "Queer Muslim Women Are Making Salaam with Who They Are," Carl Collison discusses religious-sanctioned queerphobia in Muslim communities.

true

In "Race, Online Space, and the Feminine," author Nicole Danielle Schott questions the assumption that black women are less like to suffer from eating disorders than white women.

true

In "Toward a New Vision," Patricia Hill Collins describes the institutional, symbolic, and individual dimensions of oppression.

true

In "Toward a New Vision," Patricia Hill Collins quotes a Black woman who said that while "the white woman is the black man's mule, the black woman is his dog."

true

In 2009 over two-thirds of uninsured women lived in families where they or a partner worked full time.

true

In her article "Forty Years Since Fat Is a Feminist Issue," Susie Orbach argues that contemporary women are taught that food is something dangerous

true

In many states pharmacists can use "refusal clauses" to prevent providing medication to women like the "morning-after pill."

true

It is estimated that approximately 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer in their lifetimes.

true

Jamie Lindemann Nelson argues that transgender has both challenged and reinforced gender norms and practices ("Understanding Transgender and Medically Assisted Gender Transition").

true

Latinx is a term that acknowledges intersectional identities.

true

Many feminists embrace traditional notions of beauty and spend money on beauty products.

true

Medicalization is the process whereby normal functions of the body come to be seen as indicative of disease.

true

Metrosexuals are men who are meticulous about grooming and have disposable income to spend on products and clothes.

true

Native American women are among the largest group of women in U.S. society who have been sterilized against their will.

true

New York has a Domestic Bill of Rights that gives nannies, housekeepers, and household cooks the same protections as other workers.

true

Queer people often face similar religious-sanctioned queerphobia in Christian communities (Collison/"Queer Muslim Women Are Making Salaam with Who They Are").

true

Some anti-trafficking activists argue that some people who are trafficked are deserving of help while others are not (Corinne Schwartz, Emily J. Kennedy, and Hannah Britton/"Aligned Across Differences: Structural Injustices, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking").

true

Steinem's argument relies on a male/female gender binary.

true

The Affordable Care Act is President Barack Obama's signature policy.

true

The Family and Medical Leave Act protects workers by making provisions for protection of employment and paid leave as a result of caring for a sick family member, and/or the birth or adoption of a child.

true

The United Nations recognizes crimes against women as hate crimes.

true

The authors conclude that racism and sexism do not affect Asian American women's body dissatisfaction ("Asian American Women's Body Image Experiences").

true

The authors note that Asian American Women are generally underrepresented in studies about body image ("Asian American Women's Body Image Experiences").

true

The concept of intersectionality demonstrates the important relationship between scholarship and activism.

true

The couple in Ellen Bass's poem "Gate C22" were at the Portland airport.

true

The now banned chemicals DDT and PCB are examples of xenoestrogens.

true

The physical and biological sciences have been more resistant than the humanities and the social sciences to embracing women's studies knowledge.

true

The social norms, practices, and workings of power that provide frameworks and guidelines for sexual feelings and behaviors are called sexual scripts.

true

The term "gender studies" reflects a movement away from a fixed idea of "woman."

true

The term for the process whereby individuals direct the resentment and anger they have about their situation onto those who are of equal or lesser status is horizontal hostility.

true

The term marriage equality is about equality for LGBQ marriages.

true

The term misogynoir was coined by Moya Bailey to describe the intersection of racism, misogyny, and anti-Blackness (Jallicia Jolly/"On Forbidden Wombs and Transnational Reproductive Justice").

true

The woman in the poem "Don't Laugh, It's Serious She Says" hopes to attract men so that she can reject them.

true

U.S. women can use federal funds for sterilization procedures but not for abortions (Aisha Wagner/"Doctors Need to Talk Openly about Race").

true

Up to 20% of people with serious eating disorders die from the disorder or complications associated with it.

true

Vivian M. May ("Intersectionality") makes the case for the confluence of multiple forms of oppression.

true

Women are the victims of police brutality.

true

Women are traditionally associated with nature and the earth. Men are associated with air and spirit.

true

Women do 2/3 of the world's work but receive only 5% of the world's income.

true

In "If Men Could Menstruate," Gloria Steinem concludes, "if men could menstruate, the power justifications would go on forever. If we let them." Which of the following arguments is she making?

women should refuse to accept men's illogical arguments that men are 'naturally' superior