Exam Questions Gender And Sexuality Ritzer Chapter 9 - Political Science Today 1st Edition with Answers by George Ritzer. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 9: Gender and Sexuality
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Sex is based on ______ distinctions, whereas gender is based on ______ distinctions.
A. social; physical
B. cultural; biological
C. biological; social
D. social; cultural
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Gender and Sex
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. One of the first questions asked when someone is having or adopting a baby is “Is it a boy or girl?” This is because we consider sex and gender to be which of these?
A. a master status
B. hegemonic masculinity
C. socially constructed
D. insignificant
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Gender and Sex
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. People who are born with ambiguous genitalia are usually referred to as which of these?
A. transgender
B. heterosexual
C. intersex
D. gay
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gender and Sex
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Emily likes to wear dresses, play with dolls, and paint her nails. These are examples of ways that Emily expresses which of these?
A. sex
B. gender
C. sexuality
D. intersexuality
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Gender and Sex
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Which of these is an idealized vision of manhood linked to patriarchy?
A. hegemonic masculinity
B. masculinized society
C. proletarianism
D. oligarchy
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Femininities and Masculinities
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. During the 1950s, women were expected to stay at home and take care of their husband and children's needs. What is the term for this type of socially constructed femininity?
A. hegemonic femininity
B. social femininity
C. cultural femininity
D. emphasized femininity
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Femininities and Masculinities
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Levandus’s gender identity and gender presentation differs from the gender Levandus was assigned at birth. Levandus would most likely identify as which of these?
A. intersexual
B. heterosexual
C. gay
D. transgender
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Transgender and Nonbinary Genders
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Zana does not identify with a gender. Which of these terms most accurately describes Zana?
A. gender fluid
B. agender
C. transgender
D. gender conforming
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Transgender and Nonbinary Genders
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. A gender binary involves how many genders?
A. one
B. two
C. three
D. more than three
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Transgender and Nonbinary Genders
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Lan picks out clothing that will emphasize her femininity and feels that she should speak in a feminine tone of voice, allowing men to dominate the conversation. Lan has adopted a set of which of these?
A. traditional gender roles
B. genderqueer identities
C. hegemonic masculinity behaviors
D. intersexual roles
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Transgender and Nonbinary Genders
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. In 2017, what percentage of adults personally knew someone who is transgender?
A. 7%
B. 37%
C. 57%
D. 77%
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Transgender and Nonbinary Genders
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Randy is an avid multiplayer online role-playing gamer. He often creates a female avatar and represents himself as female online. This is an example of which of the following?
A. being transgender
B. traditional gender roles
C. gender swapping
D. gender socialization
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Transgender and Nonbinary Genders
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. In First Nations, two-spirit individuals are considered neither male nor female. In Afghanistan, sons are required to gain social prestige, so some girls are treated as boys until the age of puberty. Which of the following terms is applicable to these situations?
A. gender swapping
B. nonbinary genders
C. hidden curriculum
D. gender hegemony
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Gender Diversity
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Recently, Target decided to stop labeling toys by gender. This is like actions in what other area of the world according to the text?
A. Ireland and the United Kingdom
B. Australia
C. China
D. Brazil
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gendered Inequalities
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. According to the World Economic Forum, which country is the most gender equal in the world?
A. Iceland
B. Ireland
C. United States
D. Yemen
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gendered Inequalities
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. Which of these is a school’s unofficial practices and structures that dominant traditional messages about gender?
A. hidden curriculum
B. no child left behind curriculum
C. occupational segregation curriculum
D. gender fluid curriculum
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gender and Education
Difficulty Level: Easy
17. Which of these is one reason that girls often outperform boys in primary and secondary school on most academic indicators?
A. Girls are smarter than boys.
B. Girls have faster cognitive development than boys.
C. Girls have been socialized to be better than boys at noncognitive skills such as following rules and doing homework.
D. Girls generally work harder than boys.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Gender and Education
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. Women have made big gains in higher education. How has this effected the pay gap between men and women?
A. Women have surpassed men in pay.
B. The pay gap between men and women remains significant.
C. The pay gap has disappeared for all women.
D. The pay gap has disappeared for White women only.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender and Education
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. When compared to men, women are ______.
A. less likely to graduate from high school
B. more likely to receive a bachelor's degree
C. less likely to receive a bachelor's degree
D. less competent in reading and writing assessments
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender and Education
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. How did industrialization affect gender roles?
A. It led men and women to occupy both the public and the private spheres.
B. It led to the gendered separation of the public and the private spheres.
C. It led to a blending of the public and private spheres.
D. It led to gender equity in the workplace.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Separate Spheres
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. How much do women earn on average for every dollar earned by a White man based on 2017 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics?
A. 65 cents
B. 75 cents
C. 82 cents
D. 93 cents
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Gender Inequality at Work
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. Since the Industrial Revolution, which of these were assigned the primary role of consumption?
A. men
B. women
C. teenagers
D. infants
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender and Consumer Culture
Difficulty Level: Easy
23. How have women’s consumption patterns changed as they have entered paid work?
A. They consume less.
B. They consume more.
C. They consume different types of services.
D. Their consumption patterns have remained the same.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Consumption, Work, and Family
Difficulty Level: Medium
24. Women are thought of as a multiple market. What does this mean?
A. Women have more diversity when purchasing items for themselves.
B. Women purchase much of the food, but also many types of clothing.
C. Women buy not only for themselves but make purchases for other people.
D. Women tend to buy things in multiples.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Consumption, Work, and Family
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. Which of these has become a global concern related to consumption and marketing for girls in the Internet age?
A. truthful advertising
B. hypersexualization
C. self-esteem
D. ambiguous gender messaging
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Women and Girls as Consumers
Difficulty Level: Medium
26. The way that people think about and behave toward themselves and others as sexual beings is called which of these?
A. gender Identity
B. sexuality
C. sexual orientation
D. gender binary
Learning Objective: 9.2: Describe how social forces constrain sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Sociology of Sexuality
Difficulty Level: Medium
27. Jay was brutally beaten by some of the boys in his class because they thought he was gay. This is an example of which of these?
A. homophobia
B. heterosexuality
C. sexism
D. hazing
Learning Objective: 9.2: Describe how social forces constrain sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Sexual Identities and Orientations
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. Which of these is the belief in the superiority of heterosexuality?
A. homophobia
B. heterosexism
C. sexism
D. sexual scripting
Learning Objective: 9.2: Describe how social forces constrain sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Sexual Identities and Orientations
Difficulty Level: Easy
29. Which of these is true of the heterosexual double standard?
A. Men are supposed to want sex only within committed relationships while women can have sex outside of them.
B. Men are supposed to be sexual and women are not.
C. Women having sex with other women is seen as erotic while men having sex with other men is seen as deviant.
D. Men are expected to desire and seek sex from whomever while women are expected to be sexual only within committed, romantic relationships.
Learning Objective: 9.2: Describe how social forces constrain sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Spotlight on “Hooking Up”
Difficulty Level: Medium
30. According to the chapter text, which of these previously unacceptable behaviors do the 69 percent of people in the United States now report as “morally acceptable” based on a 2017 report?
A. sex between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman
B. married men or women having an affair
C. polygamy
D. dual income marriages with no kids
Learning Objective: 9.2: Describe how social forces constrain sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Constraints on Sexuality
Difficulty Level: Medium
31. Which of these American attitudes of disapproval has remained surprisingly stable over decades according to your text?
A. disapproval of sex between unmarried men and women
B. disapproval of sex between married men and women having an affair
C. disapproval of LGBTQ people
D. disapproval of sex on television
Learning Objective: 9.2: Describe how social forces constrain sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Constraints on Sexuality
Difficulty Level: Medium
32. Which of these is a characteristic of informed sexual consent?
A. Once consent is given it is ongoing.
B. Silence can be consent if both people agree.
C. Pressure is okay, but coercion is not.
D. Both parties demonstrate a clear and mutual understanding of what they are consenting to.
Learning Objective: 9.2: Describe how social forces constrain sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture and Consent
Difficulty Level: Medium
33. Which of these statements is true of sexual assault and rape?
A. Most sexual assault victims are 16 and younger.
B. Women and men of color are disproportionately likely to be victims of sexual assault.
C. Sexual assault and rape are likely to have only short-term impact on victims.
D. sexual assault survivors are less likely to use illicit drugs than the general public.
Learning Objective: 9.2: Describe how social forces constrain sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture and Consent
Difficulty Level: Medium
34. Which social change is linked to the globalization of sexuality?
A. localized technologies
B. increasing urbanization
C. globalized religion
D. decreased mobility
Learning Objective: 9.3: Explain the effects of globalization on gender and sexualities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Change and the Globalization of Sexuality
Difficulty Level: Medium
35. Which term was exported globally in the global diffusion of sex and sexuality?
A. rape
B. pornography
C. gay
D. sexuality
Learning Objective: 9.3: Explain the effects of globalization on gender and sexualities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Global Flows Related to Sex and Sexuality
Difficulty Level: Easy
36. Which statement is true of globalization and sexual minorities?
A. Globalization has primarily functioned to spread homophobia.
B. Globalization has primarily functioned to pull LGBTQ people to urban communities.
C. Globalization has functioned to both push and pull LGBTQ people from Global North and Global South.
D. Globalization has been overwhelmingly positive for LGBTQ people.
Learning Objective: 9.3: Explain the effects of globalization on gender and sexualities.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Sexualities in a Global Context
Difficulty Level: Medium
37. A commercial sex act that includes force, fraud or coercion, and transporting or obtaining another person for a sex act is called which of these?
A. sex tourism
B. sex trafficking
C. sex slavery
D. sex consumption
Learning Objective: 9.3: Explain the effects of globalization on gender and sexualities.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Global Sex Industry
Difficulty Level: Easy
38. Which of the following is true of sex tourism?
A. It is declining worldwide due to new norms and values around sex trafficking.
B. Most of it involves people traveling from the Global South to the Global North.
C. The Internet and low-cost travel are credited with increasing its scope.
D. It is very costly for many countries because it decreases other types of tourism.
Learning Objective: 9.3: Explain the effects of globalization on gender and sexualities.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Global Sex Industry
Difficulty Level: Medium
39. Which of the following is considered the largest labor market for women worldwide?
- business
- professional work
- sex work
- domestic work
Learning Objective: 9.3: Explain the effects of globalization on gender and sexualities.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Feminization of Migration
Difficulty Level: Medium
40. What term describes the increasing participation of women in the labor force?
A. the contingent work increase
B. the feminization of labor
C. the glass escalator
D. industrialized feminism
Learning Objective: 9.4: Examine global flows related to gender and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Feminization of Labor
Difficulty Level: Easy
41. In the United States in 2016, what percentage of women were employed compared to men?
A. 57% of women to 69% of men
B. 69% of women to 57% of men
C. 50% of women and 50% of men
D. 70% of men and 30% of women
Learning Objective: 9.4: Examine global flows related to gender and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Feminization of Labor
Difficulty Level: Medium
42. The increasing number of women who are being channeled into low-status, poorly paid manual work is referred to as which of these?
A. the feminization of labor
B. female proletarianization
C. the globalization of femininity
D. the export processing zone
Learning Objective: 9.4: Examine global flows related to gender and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Feminization of Poverty and Female Proletarianization
Difficulty Level: Easy
43. Which of the following is most closely related to female proletarianization?
A. sexual fluidity
B. the feminization of poverty
C. the glass elevator
D. sex trafficking
Learning Objective: 9.4: Examine global flows related to gender and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Feminization of Poverty and Female Proletarianization
Difficulty Level: Medium
44. Which of these is true of the gendered nature of international violence?
A. Women are more likely than men to be injured in warfare.
B. Women are more likely than men to be killed in warfare.
C. Men are more likely than women to be involved in violent terrorist organizations.
D. Men are more likely than women to be displaced from their homes during times of violence.
Learning Objective: 9.4: Examine global flows related to gender and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Gender, War, and Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
45. Which of these is true of the larger global women's movement?
A. Its focus has been global, not local or regional.
B. It has decreased dramatically since the 2016 election of Donald Trump and the rise of antifeminist movements.
C. It has a strong but short history, arising in the 1960s out of worldwide civil rights movements.
D. It has focused on a variety of issues, including but not limited to human rights, violence against women, and the environment
Learning Objective: 9.4: Examine global flows related to gender and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Global Women’s Movement
Difficulty Level: Medium
True/False
1. Both sex and gender can be a master status.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender and Sex
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. People who are born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t fit the typical definitions of female or male are usually referred to as transgender.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gender and Sex
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Most biological aspects of maleness and femaleness exist on a continuum.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gender and Sex
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. One effect of hegemonic masculinity is that men do not have to think about what it means to be a man.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Femininities and Masculinities
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Emphasized femininity is focused on projecting positive images of women in society.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Femininities and Masculinities
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Gender roles is an umbrella term that encompasses a range of gendered identities, feelings, and self-determined labels.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Transgender and Nonbinary Genders
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. All trans individuals seek surgery at some point.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Transgender and Nonbinary Genders
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. The terms gender swapping and intersex can be used interchangeably.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Transgender and Nonbinary Genders
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. The hidden curriculum is a term that refers to a school's unofficial rules by which students learn various behaviors, attitudes, and values.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gender and Education
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Even though women have made gains in higher education, women still earn far fewer degrees in the STEM disciplines.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gender and Education
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Unmarried men have the lowest household income.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender, Family, and Work
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Worldwide, the second shift has decreased dramatically, and men and women are now putting in close to equal time on those tasks.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Dual-Earner Households and the Stalled Revolution
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. One factor in the stalled revolution in gender equality is the rise of video games that men tend to play instead of cleaning up after themselves.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Dual-Earner Households and the Stalled Revolution
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. The wage gap is both structural/institutional and personal/family based.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender Inequality at Work
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. One of the most stereotyped consumption patterns for men today is the “man cave.”
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Men and Boys as Consumers
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. One reason that sociologists are interested in the topic of sexuality is because of social changes in attitudes and behaviors around sex.
Learning Objective: 9.2: Describe how social forces constrain sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Sociology of Sexuality
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. Shawna believes that gay people are inferior to heterosexuals. Shawna’s belief is called homosexism.
Learning Objective: 9.2: Describe how social forces constrain sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexual Identities and Orientations
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. While prejudice and discrimination still exist, a 2017 nationally representative survey of LGBTQ respondents found that over 90% agreed that compared to 10 years ago, the United States is now more accepting of LGBTQ people.
Learning Objective: 9.2: Describe how social forces constrain sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexual Identities and Orientations
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. Hooking up is an example of a way in which people have been able to subvert the heterosexual double standard.
Learning Objective: 9.2: Describe how social forces constrain sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Spotlight on “Hooking Up”
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. Consenting to a person or sexual act on one occasion implies continual consent.
Learning Objective: 9.2: Describe how social forces constrain sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture and Consent
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. In consumer society, sex is used to encourage consumption of all sorts of things that are not inherently sexual.
Learning Objective: 9.2: Describe how social forces constrain sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sex and Consumption
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. Globalization has had a very limited impact on flows related to sex and sexuality.
Learning Objective: 9.3: Explain the effects of globalization on gender and sexualities.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Global Flows Related to Sex and Sexuality
Difficulty Level: Easy
23. Tram has been transported from Malaysia to the United States against her will and forced to serve as an escort to wealthy men. Tram is experiencing sex tourism.
Learning Objective: 9.3: Explain the effects of globalization on gender and sexualities.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Global Sex Industry
Difficulty Level: Medium
24. Over the last few decades, most of the countries of the Global South and Eastern Europe have experienced a slow decline in sex work.
Learning Objective: 9.3: Explain the effects of globalization on gender and sexualities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Global Sex Industry
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. The feminization of labor has occurred only in developing countries.
Learning Objective: 9.3: Explain the effects of globalization on gender and sexualities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Feminization of Labor
Difficulty Level: Easy
26. There has been a notable decrease in women’s labor force participation rates worldwide, particularly in the Americas and Western Europe.
Learning Objective: 9.4: Examine global flows related to gender and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Feminization of Labor
Difficulty Level: Easy
27. Globally, women are often channeled into low-status, poorly paid jobs, a phenomenon referred to as female proletarianization.
Learning Objective: 9.4: Examine global flows related to gender and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Feminization of Poverty and Female Proletarianization
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. A change in warfare in recent years has decreased the number of casualties globally that women suffer in war.
Learning Objective: 9.4: Examine global flows related to gender and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender, War, and Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
29. One unintended consequence of war is that women can gain greater economic independence.
Learning Objective: 9.4: Examine global flows related to gender and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender, War, and Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
30. The focus of the global women’s rights movement has been on heterosexism.
Learning Objective: 9.4: Examine global flows related to gender and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Global Women’s Movement
Difficulty Level: Medium
Essay
1. Explain the terms hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity. What social consequences are related to these two gender forms?
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Femininities and Masculinities
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Transgender is an umbrella term related to several gender identities. What gender identities are grouped under the term transgender? Name one risk factor for people who identify as transgender.
Learning Objective: 9.1: Identify the cultural influences on gender and discuss gendered inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Transgender and Nonbinary Genders
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. What is the definition of informed, or “effective,” sexual consent? Why have discussions about informed consent been in the news lately?
Learning Objective: 9.2: Describe how social forces constrain sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture and Consent
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Discuss the social changes that are significant to the globalization of sexuality. Name and explain three reasons for these changes.
Learning Objective: 9.3: Explain the effects of globalization on gender and sexualities.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Social Change and the Globalization of Sexuality
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Discuss the concept of “feminization” as it relates to global flows. Select and explain two forms of feminization discussed by the text. Explain how each affects women.
Learning Objective: 9.4: Examine global flows related to gender and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Global Flows Related to Gender
Difficulty Level: Medium