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Chapter 11: How Does Gender Help Determine Who Has Power and Who Doesn’t?
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Multiple Choice
1.According to the text, ______ is the ability of some actors to influence the behavior or others.
A. Power
B. Authority
C. Persuasion
A.Coercion
Answer Location: Power: Good and Bad
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. The ability to impose one’s will by force, threats, or deceit is known as:
A. Authority
B. Institutionalized power
C. Coercive power
D. Emasculation
Answer Location: Power: Good and Bad
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. _______ is the power that comes from a position in an organization or institution and is widely regarded as legitimate.
A. Individual power
B. Authority
C. Coercive power
D. Emasculation
Answer Location: Power: Good and Bad
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Across human societies, women have had ______ opportunities to make laws, start wars, interpret religious texts, and otherwise shape basic aspects of human life and opportunity than men.
A. fewer
B. more
C. equal
D. fair
Answer Location: Masculinity and Power
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Even though men commonly enjoy gender-specific privileges in society, they often report feeling _______.
A. Angry
B. Compulsive
C. Powerless
D. Weak
Answer Location: Masculinity and Power
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Taking away or reducing masculinity, whether by women or other men, is known as:
A. Acculturation
B. Deculturation
C. Patriarchal deprivation
D. Emasculation
Answer Location: Who Really Has the Power? Hegemonic Masculinity
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Many feminists have pointed to marital rape as an example of _______ power.
A. insidious
B. institutionalized
C. coercive
D. judicious
Answer Location: Coercive Power
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Women are often placed in the position of assessing their vulnerability in certain spaces due to the threat of potential violence, assault, or harassment. This process is known as ______.
A. the mace conundrum
B. the geography of fear
C. the culture of violence
D. the feminine mystique
Answer Location: The Geography of Fear
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. The case of women and their use of South Mountain Park highlights the ways in which the problem of coercive power used against women is perceived as primarily a ______ problem.
A. man’s
B. woman’s
C. lesbian’s
D. community’s
Answer Location: The Geography of Fear
Cognitive Domain: Application
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. In 2007, the Department of Justice found that ____women would experience attempted or completed sexual assault during their time in college.
A. 1 in 20
B. 1 in 10
C. 1 in 5
D. 1 in 3
Answer Location: Sexual Assault on Campus
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. ________, passed in 1972, banned discrimination on the basis of sex from all education programs and institutions receiving Federal financial assistance.
A. The 19th Amendement
B. Title VI
C. The Roe v. Wade ruling
D. Title IX
Answer Location: Sexual Assault on Campus
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. On college campuses, many women report ______, which has the power to diminish (or negate) their capability to consent to sexual activity.
A. being pressured to drink alcohol
B. the desire to enter a longterm relationship
C. competition with other women
D. being asked to dance by men
Answer Location: Sexual Assault on Campus
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. ______ refers to patterns of speech or action that are regularly followed to accomplish some task in an interaction.
A. Interaction socialization
B. Interaction routines
C. Interaction deference
D. Interaction power
Answer Location: Sexual Assault on Campus
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. As suggested by research by Elizabeth Armstrong and colleagues, which of the following organizations facilitate rape culture at universities?
A. Academic departments
B. Athletic teams
C. Fraternities
D. Sororities
Answer Location: Sexual Assault on Campus
Cognitive Domain: Application
Difficulty Level: Hard
15. When women at university fraternity parties do not call attention to inappropriate behaviors on the part of men because they do not want to make a scene, they are displaying:
A. Emasculation
B. Coercive power
C. Denial
D. Deference
Answer Location: Sexual Assault on Campus
Cognitive Domain: Application
Difficulty Level: Hard
16. ______ refers to the vulnerability faced by women who inreasingly bear the burden of economic inequality.
A. The globalization of the South
B. Feminization of poverty
C. Gendering of the economy
D. State feminism
Answer Location: Violent Intersections: The Gender of Human Trafficking
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. The phenomenon of human trafficking, the author argues, is another way that ______ is used against women.
A. authority
B. institutionalized power
C. coercive power
D. emasculation
Answer Location: Violent Intersections: The Gender of Human Trafficking
Cognitive Domain: Application
Difficulty Level: Hard
18. Many women who practice Islam feel that the hijab _______.
A. is a tool of oppression
B. shields them from harassment
C. allows them to work outside the home
D. is rewarded by their society
Answer Location: Hijab and Ethnocentrism
Cognitive Domain: Application
Difficulty Level: Hard
19. _______is the perspective that encourages us to view other cultures through their own lens rather than through our own.
A. Ethnocentrism
B. Social inclusivity
C. Cultural relativism
D. Normative tolerance
Answer Location: Hijab and Ethnocentrism
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
20. What we usually think of as government, the set of institutions that set laws and govern life within a set of geographical boundaries, is also known as the ______.
A. nation-state
B. state
C. nation
D. institution
Answer Location: Institutional Power: Defining Gender
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. As a result of various political actions of erasure and exclusion, the Trump administration has been said to attempt legislating _______ out of existence.
A. women
B. mothers
C. gay men
D. transgender people
Answer Location: Institutional Power: Defining Gender
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. Karen is unable to determine the gender of a sales clerk at her local department store. When she asks, the associate responds that they are non-binary. Karen then posts a picture of them on Twitter, without their permission, reiterating her thoughts about the naturalness of the male-female binary and heterosexuality. Karen’s reaction is an example of a(n) _______.
A. identity-based ideology
B. gender panic
C. gender breakdown
D. homoeroticism
Answer Location: Institutional Power: Defining Gender
Cognitive Domain: Application
Difficulty Level: Hard
23. For most of the history of the United States, the political elite has been composed of ______.
A. men
B. women
C. people of color
D. immigrants
Answer Location: Men and Women in Office
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. The only two countries in which the percentage of women in parliament exceeds fifty percent are ______ and ______.
A. The United States, England
B. Sweden, Australia
C. The United States, France
D. Rwanda, Bolivia
Answer Location: Men and Women in Office
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
25. The extent to which the members of a particular group represent the interests of that group when they are elected is known as_______.
A. Numerical representation
B. Descriptive representation
C. Gendered representation
D. Substantive representation
Answer Location: Men and Women in Office
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
26. According to survey research, citizens of Peru see women mayors as ________.
A. corrupt and authoritarian
B. more efficient than men
C. dangerous and unreliable
D. loyal and sensitive to human issues
Answer Location: The Smoke-Filled Room: Descriptive Representation
Cognitive Domain: Comprehehsion
Difficulty Level: Medium
26. Exposure to European gender ideology through colonization ______ the levels of gender inequality in many colonies.
A. increased
B. decreased
c. did not affect
d. eradicated
Answer Location: The Smoke-Filled Room: Descriptive Representation
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Difficulty Level: Medium
27. The process by which people learn what is expected of them in their particular political system is known as:
A. Political efficacy
B. Political power
C. Political socialization
D. Politicization
Answer Location: The Smoke-Filled Room: Descriptive Representation
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
28. No women were included in the five-person panel at a 2012 hearing by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on birth control access. This demonstrates that even when women have descriptive representation, they lack ______ representation.
A. feminine
B. health care
C. gender
D. substantive
Answer Location: Strangers in the Halls of Power: Substantive Representation
Cognitive Domain: Application
Difficulty Level: Hard
29. The “ethic of ______” is used to describe women’s greater likelihood of expressing concerns about not helping others.
A. care
B. justice
C. anxiety
D. empathy
Answer Location: Gendered Leadership Styles
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
30. _______ refers to government activities specifically meant to advance women’s status and rights.
A. Equal Rights Act
B. State feminism
C. Gender equity
D. Women’s liberation
Answer Location: Gendered Leadership Styles
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
True/False
31. Parents and teachers have coercive power over children and students.
Answer Location: Power: Good and Bad
Cognitive Domain: Application
Difficulty Level: Hard
32. Kimmel argues that most men feel powerless because of the way masculinity is constructed as an identity.
Answer Location: Who Really Has the Power? Hegemonic Masculinity
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Difficulty Level: Medium
33. Head and master laws dictated that wives had final say regarding household decisions.
Answer Location: Coercive Power
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
34. Wesely and Gaarder’s interviews of women who used a public park found that often their fear of certain trails was grounded in specific experiences.
Answer Location: The Geography of Fear
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Difficulty Level: Medium
35. The Trump administration’s attempts to impose a biological definition of gender are good examples of gender neutralization.
Answer Location: Institional Power: Defining Gender
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
36. In rape-prone cultures, sexual aggression receives social disapproval and is severely punished.
Answer Location: Institional Power: Defining Gender
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
37. Identity-based ideologies assume a natural, male-female binary that can be objectibely measured by chromosomes, genitalia, or hormones.
Answer Location: Institutional Power: Defining Gender
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Difficulty Level: Medium
38. Often in rape cases, there is a tendency to blame the victim.
Answer Location: Sexual Assault on Campus
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
39. The economic disadvantage of female-headed households relative to male-headed or couple-headed households is known as “single-mother deprivation.”
Answer Location: Violent Intersections: The Gender of Human Trafficking
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
40. Seeing the hijab or burka as a form of oppression against women can be an ethnocentric way that non-Muslims view the women who wear them.
Answer Location: Hijab and Ethnocentrism
Cognitive Domain: Application
Difficulty Level: Hard
41. Descriptive representation refers to the number of members of a particular group.
Answer Location: Men and Women in Office
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
42. Women have historically been more active in social movements and civic organizations than as elected officials.
Answer Location: Men and Women in Office
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
43. Where there is democracy, there are more women in politics.
Answer Location: The Smoke-Filled Room: Descriptive Representation
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Difficulty Level: Medium
44. Even in governments with relatively numerous women elected officials, women are often excluded from political conversations.
Answer Location: Strangers in the Halls of Power: Substantive Representation
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
45. Men tend to be more concerned about people interfering with each other’s rights in moral dilemmas. This tendency is referred to as an ‘ethic of care’.
Answer Location: Strangers in the Halls of Power: Substantive Representation
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
Essay
46. Discuss the history of sexual assault and gender discrimination on college campuses. Explore the efficacy of coercive power through the lens of social learning theory.
Answer Location: Sexual Assault on Campus
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
47. Explain the differences between descriptive and substantive representation. Make sure to describe what each is and how they are both related to gender.
Answer Location: Men and Women in Office
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
48. Define human trafficking, coercive power, and the feminization of poverty. What do these factors suggest about the state of gender today?
Answer Location: Violent Intersections: The Gender of Human Trafficking
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
49. Explain Kimmel’s argument that men might not actually feel very powerful. Explain hegemonic masculinity and emasculation in addressing which men might not feel powerful. What is the relationship between violence and emasculation?
Answer Location: Who Really Has the Power? Hegemonic Masculinity
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
50. Explain the geography of fear. How does it enforce the gendered nature of the private-public split?
Answer Location: The Geography of Fear
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
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