Exam 11: Sexualities and Gender Stratification

Heteronormativity includes suppression of both homosexuality and lesbianism.

What was the relative gender equality found in foraging societies based on?

Define heteronormativity. Illustrate your answer with examples.

Which of the following best illustrates pornification of culture?

Which of the following refers to the alignment of sex, sexuality, gender, and gender roles in relations based on the binary categories of male and female?

Define heteronormativity and the main variations in sexuality that challenge it. Illustrate your answer with examples.

Which of the following is used to calculate the Global Gender Gap Index?

Hanne lives in one of the world's most gender-equal nations. In which of the following countries does she most likely live?

Shelley is a senior manager in government. Her team of employees appreciates her as a boss because, even when she does a great deal of the work, she shares the credit with her team. She and her team are therefore shocked when Shelley is bypassed for a promotion and the much-less-competent male manager gets it. According to Deborah Tannen's research, the fault lies with Shelley saying "we did it" instead of "I did it." What effect does Shelley's behaviour usually have?

According to the textbook, which of the following is likely to describe a female lead character in a film or a TV show?

How does the textbook explain cultural acceptance of an unrealistically thin body image?

Every time Monica eats, she worries that she will gain weight. However, she loves food, so her solution is to eat everything and then make herself vomit afterwards. What condition does have?

According to Foucault, it was impossible for men involved in same-sex relationships in Ancient Greece to "come out of the closet."

Based on research discussed in the textbook, in which of the following situations are boys and girls most likely to play together without regard to gender?

Cara and her husband Mark believe strongly that women should stay at home and care for children, cooking, cleaning, and laundry, while men should go out and earn the household money, fix the car, and represent the family in public. Which of the following do these beliefs reflect?

Which of the following is a school of thought that views gender differences as a reflection of biological differences between women and men?

Define essentialism and give examples of it.

Danielle has a three-year-old daughter and refuses to buy her a Barbie doll. She has also forbidden any of her friends and relatives from doing this. Danielle's childrearing practices can likely be attributed to a belief in which of the following theories?

Dr. Bains discovers that when the male embryos she has been researching in the lab failed to receive a significant dose of testosterone at about six weeks of gestation, the genitalia fail to fuse to form a penis. If this embryo were carried to full term, what would the resulting infant be called today?

Women get passed over for promotion to upper management because, according to Deborah Tannen, they appear too accommodating and indecisive at work.