Exam 14: Gender

Intersex, a group of conditions involving discrepancy between external genitals and internal genitals, can have a variety of chromosomal causes that create a sex-gender difference. Which of the following chromosomal anomalies identifies a person with the chromosomes of a woman and female internal anatomy, but with male external genitals?

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Question 21

Ethnographic evidence has revealed that traditionally, Pawnee women worked wood, and among the Hidatsa, women made boats. Cases such as these suggest that

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Question 22

Women in matrilineal societies tend to occupy elevated status positions.

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Question 23

Regarding sexual orientation, all of the following are true EXCEPT that

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Question 24

Across differing societies, women generally dominate the practice of subsistence labor.

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Question 25

Of the following factors, which is historically correlated with the shrinking of the female factory workforce in the United States?

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Question 26

Transgender and XX intersex are interchangeable terms referring to individuals with external genitals that are incompletely formed, ambiguous, or female.

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Question 27

In the United States today, more than 40 percent of mothers are the primary or sole source of income in their homes.

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Question 28

This chapter's discussion on recurrent gender patterns stresses that

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Question 29

Gender roles are the instinctual behaviors that are the exclusive domain of each sex.

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Question 30

In foraging societies, gender stratification was most marked when men contributed much more to the diet than women did.

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Question 31

With the term sex, anthropologists are referring to biological differences. In contrast, they define gender as

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Question 32

According to studies in the 1960s, why did young Etoro men and boys engage in homosexual relationships?

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Question 33

Flexibility in sexual expression seems to be an aspect of our primate heritage.

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Question 34

Which of the following statements about the label "transgender" is accurate?

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Question 35

The anthropological record confirms that gender diversity has existed in many societies and taken many forms, including eunuchs in Byzantium, the Zuni Two-Spirit, and virginal transvestites of North Albania.

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Question 36

Adding together men's and women's subsistence activities and their domestic work, men tend to work more hours than women do.

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Question 37

The feminization of poverty refers to the increasing representation of women (and their children) among America's poorest people.

(True/False)

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Question 38

The domestic-public dichotomy refers to the separation of

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Question 39

Among American working parents, which of the following is FALSE?

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Ethnographic evidence has revealed that traditionally, Pawnee women worked wood, and among the Hidatsa, women made boats. Cases such as these suggest that

Women in matrilineal societies tend to occupy elevated status positions.

Regarding sexual orientation, all of the following are true EXCEPT that

Across differing societies, women generally dominate the practice of subsistence labor.

Of the following factors, which is historically correlated with the shrinking of the female factory workforce in the United States?

Transgender and XX intersex are interchangeable terms referring to individuals with external genitals that are incompletely formed, ambiguous, or female.

In the United States today, more than 40 percent of mothers are the primary or sole source of income in their homes.

This chapter's discussion on recurrent gender patterns stresses that

Gender roles are the instinctual behaviors that are the exclusive domain of each sex.

In foraging societies, gender stratification was most marked when men contributed much more to the diet than women did.

With the term sex, anthropologists are referring to biological differences. In contrast, they define gender as

According to studies in the 1960s, why did young Etoro men and boys engage in homosexual relationships?

Flexibility in sexual expression seems to be an aspect of our primate heritage.

Which of the following statements about the label "transgender" is accurate?

The anthropological record confirms that gender diversity has existed in many societies and taken many forms, including eunuchs in Byzantium, the Zuni Two-Spirit, and virginal transvestites of North Albania.

Adding together men's and women's subsistence activities and their domestic work, men tend to work more hours than women do.

The feminization of poverty refers to the increasing representation of women (and their children) among America's poorest people.

The domestic-public dichotomy refers to the separation of

Among American working parents, which of the following is FALSE?

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