Exam 8: How Does Gender Impact the People We Live Our Lives With

Early marriages, which were often forged for political reasons, gave women access to power.

The example of the Mbuti African tribe in which men and women hunt and gather together demonstrates _______.

Demographers suggest that the lack of available, age-appropriate men to marry for baby boom women may have contributed to the women's movement.

Which theory argues that marriage evolved as a tool for the subordination of women?

Hochschild found that in dual-earner families, household tasks are evenly divided.

______ stepfamilies emphasized financial independence, labor-work participation, and sharing the provider role.

The US Supreme Court ruled in the 1972 Eisenstadt v. Baird case that contraception could be sold to single women.

According to Pfeffer and LaRossa's research, cisgender women who began their relationship with trans men before they transitioned reported regularly performing ________.

A family grouping that consists of a mother, a father, and their children is known as a ______.

Describe the separate spheres ideology. How has this ideology influenced (1) the world of work, (2) the institution of marriage, and (3) the household division of labor?

According to Marxist feminists, which of the following results in the devaluation of women as a gender?

Companionate marriage is the expectation that spouses do not experience romantic and sexual attraction for each other. Rather, they experience a caring friendship.

Before the nineteenth century, mothers were thought to have responsibility for children and thus were usually awarded custody in divorces.

From a sociological perspective, the fact that marriage is a ______ makes it difficult to change, such as legalizing same-sex partnerships.

The doctrine of separate spheres created a gender system in which women were considered _____ beings and men were _______beings.

The household division of labor such that a woman has to come home from her job and also take care of the household upkeep and childcare is known as the _______.

Discuss the relationship between the institutional approach to marriage and the "doing gender" perspective. Specifically, do these theories offer competing viewpoints, or are they complementary perspectives? Explain.

Explain the marriage gradient in relation to the marriage squeeze. How do these concepts intersect with race in the US?

The doctrine of separate spheres sees the ______ sphere as masculine and the ______ sphere as the place where women belong.

Which of the following theoretical perspectives asserts that institutions such as marriage and the family produce gender, and without these, gender as we know it does not exist?