Deck 1: Perspectives on Sex, Gender, and Difference

Question 1

In "The Five Sexes, Revisited," Anne Fausto-Sterling defines ________________ as "people who have an emotional gender at odds with their physical sex."

A) intersexuals
B) homosexuals
C) transsexuals
D) None of the above

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Based on "The New Science of Sex Difference" by Lisa Wade, which of the following statements is true?

A) All human hormones, including androgen and estrogen, circulate in both men's and women's bodies.
B) Androgen only circulates in men's bodies, while estrogen only circulates in women's bodies.
C) Androgen only circulates in women's bodies, while estrogen only circulates in men's bodies.
D) None of the above

Answer 2

A

Question 3

According to Lisa Wade in "The New Science of Sex Difference," which of the following statements is true?

A) Men's brains and women's brains are generally the same size, despite their overall size differences.
B) Men generally have smaller brains than women, explained by their overall smaller size.
C) Women generally have smaller brains than men, explained by their overall smaller size.
D) None of the above

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following, according to Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill in "Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism," is a distinguishing feature of multiracial feminism?

A) The emphasis on the intersectional nature of hierarchies at all levels of social life.
B) An understanding of the relational nature of dominance and subordination, especially that power is the cornerstone of women's differences.
C) The idea that gender is constructed by a range of interlocking inequalities based on race, class, gender, and sexuality, among others.
D) All of the above

Question 5

In "Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism," Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill claim, "In the social sciences, multiracial feminism grew out of ________________ feminist thinking."

A) Marxist
B) Socialist
C) Postmodernist
D) All of the above

Question 6

In "Masculinities and Globalization," Raewyn W. Connell claims that ________________ masculinity may not be common, but that it is "the most honored or desired in a particular context."

A) hegemonic
B) global
C) transnational
D) None of the above

Question 7

According to Raewyn W. Connell in "Masculinities and Globalization," masculinities are not ________________ but rather illustrate "contradictory desires and conduct."

A) hegemonic
B) homogenous
C) patriarchal
D) All of the above

Question 8

"The Western culture of ________________ ," according to Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild in "Global Woman," "contributes to the invisibility of migrant women and their work," because it prevents the acknowledgement of help and human interdependency.

A) homogeneity
B) individualism
C) patriarchy
D) None of the above

Question 9

In "Global Woman," which noneconomic factors do Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild identify as contributing to a woman's decision to emigrate?

A) Escaping the expectation that she care for elderly family members.
B) Avoiding the requirement that she relinquish her salary to a husband or father.
C) Being required to defer to an abusive husband.
D) All of the above

Question 10

Which of the following models, defined by Chandra Talpade Mohanty in "Antiglobalization Pedagogies and Feminism," results in the United States or Western European nation-states providing "a normative context" for students and teachers, leaving "power relations and hierarchies untouched since ideas about center and margin are reproduced along Eurocentric lines."

A) Feminist Solidarity Model
B) Feminist-as-Tourist Model
C) Feminist-as-Explorer Model
D) All of the above

Question 11

Drawing on two to three texts from Part I, explain why studying "patterns of international migration," as Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild describe it in "Global Woman," are important to the study of gender.

Question 12

Given what you read in "The New Science of Sex Difference" by Lisa Wade, problematize the nature/nurture dichotomy in relation to gender and sexuality.

Question 13

Based on what you read in "Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism," explain why Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill claim that "race and class differences are crucial" to the study of gender.