Exam 3: Sociopolitical Issues in Womens, Gender and Sexuality Studies

"Now is the time to recognize that no project of gender and sexual self-determination will be meaningful if it fails to engage resistance to an inherently violent and hierarchical _______ economic system that grounds its control over workers and the poor in oppressive understandings of race, sex, gender, ability, and nationality."

The successes of women such as Slaughter and Sandberg come with unacknowledged aid and at the expense of those who are:

From what group does the author argue policymakers should learn from?

"Moving forward, the American left must refrain from using Puerto Ricans as a _______ in their battles against the Trump administration and afford them a substantive role in these efforts."

What shift in attitude is the author seeking?

Richie observes that many presentations about violence against women begin with what problematic declaration?

What is homophily?

Jacobsen plans to remarry. Fill in the blanks of their argument about marriage: "I do believe in things where it must be dismantled in order to change but also believe that some things have to be changed by _______ them. I don't think that I am anyone that does uphold a lot of like, I don't uphold patriarchy."

Nair pushes against marriage. Fill in the blank in her argument: "So that's my fundamental critique of gay marriage. It's not so much that it represents a cultural or social assimilation but that it is a movement that has helped become a vital cog for _______ and the privatization of resources."

"In essence, black and Latina violence is positioned in ways that invite a contrast to the assumed "_______" of white girls."

While Dean Spade says that there has been much discussion of the psychological harm caused by a binary understanding of gender, what aspect has been neglected?

Simply put, FFF's narratives of good fathering are not just a strategic choice to cast these men as respectable, domesticated, and deserving of public sympathy. They confront us with the ways in which deportation becomes an instrument through which the state continues to define "the _______."

"More specifically, Lean In reveals the ways in which the husk of liberalism is being mobilized to spawn a neoliberal feminism, as well as a new feminist (and not simply a female) subject. Individuated in the extreme, this subject is feminist in the sense that she is distinctly aware of current inequalities between men and women. This same subject is, however, simultaneously neoliberal, not only because she disavows the social, cultural and economic forces producing this inequality, but also because she accepts full responsibility for her own well-being and self-care, which is increasingly predicated on crafting a felicitous work-family balance based on a cost-benefit calculus. The neoliberal feminist subject is thus mobilized to convert continued gender inequality from a _______ problem into an _______ affair."

What specifically does Prince say is not really about individuals but is instead about "unravelling the fabric of a community" during times of war?

What work should labels within the queer community do?

What term does Jessica Birch use to describe when a woman internalizes oppression so thoroughly that she forgets who she is?

"Maybe it's time to stress women's _______-and access to affordable and high quality healthcare would surely be an aspect of that freedom-rather than women's _______ as our primary goal."

What are things shaping contemporary friendships?

How was the torture at Abu-Ghraib first exposed?

What does the author suggest be done to ensure more diversity on TV programs?