Chapter 5: How Does Gender Matter for Whom We Want and Desire? The Gender of Sexuality

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following terms defines how individuals place themselves in our current system of sexuality?

A. sex

B. sexual identity

C. gender

D. sexual category

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Let’s Talk About Sex

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Which of the following characteristics is true of sexual desire?

A. Sexual desire is physical and institutional.

B. Sexual desire is strictly internal.

C. Sexual desire is physical, internal, and cultural.

D. Sexual desire is objective.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Let’s Talk About Sex

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. How many sex categories exist in John Stoltenberg’s imagined world?

A. zero (none)

B. one

C. two

D. five

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Does Sexuality Have a Gender?

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Which theoretical perspective argues that sex is a way in which we “accomplish” feeling like a man or a woman?

A. doing gender theory

B. queer theory

C. evolutionary sociobiology

D. status characteristics theory

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Does Sexuality Have a Gender?

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Until recently, marriage between two people of the same sex was illegal in the majority of the United States. This demonstrates which of the following concepts?

A. doing gender

B. hegemonic masculinity

C. compulsive heterosexuality

D. androgenization

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Heteronormativity and Compulsive Heterosexuality

Difficulty Level: Hard

6. The term that defines the ways in which power is associated with a gender binary system while presuming heterosexuality as a social norm is ______.

A. doing gender

B. hegemonic masculinity

C. compulsive heterosexuality

D. heteropatriarchy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Heteronormativity and Compulsive Heterosexuality

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. ______ is the way in which heterosexuality is viewed as the normal, natural way of being.

A. Heteronormativity

B. Hegemonic masculinity

C. Compulsive heterosexuality

D. Heteropatriarchy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Heteronormativity and Compulsive Heterosexuality

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Early studies in sexology focused on demonstrating that ______.

A. nonheterosexuality is deviant

B. heterosexuality is socially constructed

C. compulsive heterosexuality impacts gender identity

D. heteropatriarchy impacts sexuality

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: A Brief History of Heterosexuality

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. The ancient Greek understanding of sex is an example of how ______ can be important in sexuality.

A. gender

B. social status

C. activity

D. sexuality

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: One Sex or Two?

Difficulty Level: Hard

10. In much of Anglo-European history, the division between ______ sex and ______ sex was one of the most important distinctions in sexuality.

A. bisexual; homosexual

B. consensual; forced

C. procreative; nonprocreative

D. premarital; extramarital

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: A Brief History of Heterosexuality

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. In some Native North American cultures, it is acceptable for a boy or a girl to express an interest in learning the traditional activities of the other gender. This is called a ______.

A. one-sex model

B. two-spirit role

C. two-sex model

D. hermaphrodite

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Seeing one’s own culture as superior to another culture is known as ______.

A. ethnocentrism

B. hegemony

C. cultural relativism

D. anglocentrism

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Mixing It Up: Sex Category, Gender, and Sexuality

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Kinsey’s theory of sexuality proposed that sexuality is best characterized by______.

A. discreet categories

B. a continuum

C. a one-sex model

D. five sexes

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Measuring Sexuality: What Is Sexual Identity?

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. The practice of providing sex for soldiers to motivate men to fight demonstrates which of the following?

A. Men are seen as sexual subjects.

B. Men are exempt from hegemonic masculinity.

C. Men are seen as sexual objects.

D. Men’s sexuality is rooted in ethnocentrism.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Men as Sexual Subjects

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Research shows that often, young girls give into sex with their boyfriends for their initial sexual experiences due to their ______.

A. need for masculine protection

B. search for recognition from an idealized other

C. desire to procreate

D. tendency to be more emotional

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Women as Sexual Objects

Difficulty Level: Hard

16. Which of the following terms refers to a sexual interest in the exotic racialized Other?

A. sex tourism

B. ethnocentrism

C. racism

D. sexism

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women as Sexual Objects

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. The ways in which many women as sex tourists are “looking more to be swept away by men than to assert their strong control over their paid male counterparts” is known as:

A. sex tourism

B. romance tourism

C. sex racism

D. romance fetishism

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women as Sexual Objects

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. Learned guidelines for sexual expression that provide individuals with a sense of culturally appropriate sexual behaviors and sexual desires are known as ______.

A. sexuality

B. gender

C. heteronormativity

D. sexual scripts

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Playing the Part? Sexual Scripts

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. Ronen’s 2010 study on “grinding” at college dance parties found that ______.

A. men danced together in groups to attract women

B. women danced together in groups to attract men

C. grinding was between both same-sex and opposite-sex dance partners

D. women assertively approached men to grind

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Grinding and Sexual Scripts on the College Dance Floor

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Mernissi argues that in Islamic thought, women’s sexual desire ______ men’s.

A. is less than

B. is equal to

C. greatly exceeds

D. is not as important as that of

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Sexuality in Islamic Perspectives

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. ______ is a Zulu vernacular word used to describe intersex individuals.

A. Berdache

B. Stabane

C. Mahu

D. Hijras

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Stabane and Sexuality in South Africa

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. The perspective in sociology that examines changes in human lives over a long stretch of lifetime is known as ______.

A. life-course perspective

B. socialization

C. micro-level perspective

D. symbolic interactionism

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Men and Abstinence

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. Young Christian men in Diefendorf’s study who abstained from sexual intercourse until marriage displayed which type of masculinity?

A. marginalized

B. hegemonic

C. hybrid

D. compromised

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Men and Abstinence

Difficulty Level: Hard

24. Wosick-Correa and Joseph’s research on women consumers of strip clubs found that strippers tailored their performances in a more playful way with women customers. This demonstrates the enactment of______.

A. homosexuality

B. bisexuality

C. sexual scripts

D. sexual subjectivity

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Women at Female Strip Clubs

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. Bisexuals may refer to heterosexuals and homosexuals as ______.

A. gendered

B. monosexuals

C. fence riders

D. sexually repressed

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Bisexuality and the Bisexual Umbrella

Difficulty Level: Easy

26. Some people do not experience sexual attraction. They are said to be______.

A. monosexual

B. asexual

C. AVEN

D. nonsexual

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Asexuality

Difficulty Level: Easy

27. ______ is/are the set of unearned rights that are given to heterosexuals in many societies.

A. Double standards

B. Androcentrism

C. Sexual dimorphism

D. Hetero-privilege

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sexuality and Power: Hetero-privilege in Schools

Difficulty Level: Easy

28. The practices in schools that both legitimize the dominant culture and marginalize or reject other cultures or forms of knowledge are known as the ______ curriculum.

A. hegemonic

B. hidden

C. privileged

D. androcentric

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sexuality and Power: Hetero-privilege in Schools

Difficulty Level: Easy

29. Women’s role in nationalism is largely ______ and ______.

A. symbolic; defensive

B. reproductive; defensive

C. symbolic; reproductive

D. nurturing; productive

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Nationalism and Heteronormativity

Difficulty Level: Medium

30. Kate Bornstein, a trans woman, suggested that we wear ______ in order to show our sexual preference.

A. nametags with categories

B. various colored bracelets

C. culturally dictated clothes

D. certain colored clothes

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Red = Top; Black = Bottom

Difficulty Level: Hard

True/False

1. Emotional intimacy is a necessary component of sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Let’s Talk About Sex

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Stoltenberg imagined a world with a broad array of highly unique people with no sex category.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Does Sexuality Have a Gender?

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Heteropatriarchy alludes to how dominance in our gender system is associated with presumed heterosexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Heteronormativity and Compulsive Heterosexuality

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. In Anglo-European settings, women are often seen as sexual subjects.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women as Sexual Objects

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Heteronormativity is the way in which heterosexual is viewed as “the norm.”

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Heteronormativity and Compulsive Heterosexuality

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Sexuality refers to the global category into which people place themselves based on Anglo-European conceptions of heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Many girls in Karin Martin’s research saw sex as something they do, rather than something that happens to them.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Women as Sexual Objects

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Many Islamic sources define sex as serving God’s purpose.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Sexuality in Islamic Perspectives

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. A person who is aromantic has no romantic drive, or no desire to find a romantic partner.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Asexuality

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. The labels “heterosexuality” and “homosexuality” did not exist in common language until the 19th century.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Invention of Heterosexuality

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Martin’s 1996 study demonstrated that adolescent girls’ romanticization of ideal love helped them wait to have sex with their boyfriends until they were ready.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Women as Sexual Objects

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Whereas women are more likely to engage in sex tourism, men are more likely to engage in romance tourism.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women as Sexual Objects

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Men who practice abstinence before marriage are adhering to the expected sexual scripts based on hegemonic masculinity.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Men and Abstinence

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Wosick-Correa and Joseph’s research on strip clubs showed that when strippers engaged in sidestaging with women customers, they were more likely to reveal their “true” thoughts and identities.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Women at Female Strip Clubs

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. The assumption that bisexual women are promiscuous and disloyal is a neutralization technique referred to as marginalization.

And: F

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Bisexuality and the Bisexual Umbrella

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. Explain the historical process by which the terms “heterosexual” and “homosexual” came to be used in popular language. What does this fact tell us about the nature of sexuality and sexual identity?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: A Brief History of Heterosexuality

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. How does the construction of feminine sexuality as passive and masculine sexuality as active reinforce gender inequality? Cite evidence from research that challenges cultural understandings of passive feminine sexuality and active masculine sexuality.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Men as Sexual Subjects

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Define ethnocentrism. How do ethnocentric views shape our understandings of sexuality? Provide one example of ethnocentric sexual views from the chapter and then discuss one example from your own observations.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Mixing it Up: Sex Category, Gender, and Sexuality

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Explain sexual scripts in terms of the nature/nurture debate. Describe gendered variation in sexual scripts, and provide one example.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Playing the Part? Sexual Scripts

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Discuss the queer theory approach to sexuality, and explain how it relates to sex categories and gender. How does Bornstein’s research suggest we practice sexual activity while adhering to the tenets of queer theory?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Red = Top; Black = Bottom

Difficulty Level: Medium