Exam 5: How Does Gender Matter for Whom We Want and Desire the Gender of Sexuality

Wosick-Correa and Joseph's research on women consumers of strip clubs found that strippers tailored their performances in a more playful way with women customers. This demonstrates the enactment of______.

Which of the following terms defines how individuals place themselves in our current system of sexuality?

Emotional intimacy is a necessary component of sexuality.

The perspective in sociology that examines changes in human lives over a long stretch of lifetime is known as ______.

The practices in schools that both legitimize the dominant culture and marginalize or reject other cultures or forms of knowledge are known as the ______ curriculum.

______ is/are the set of unearned rights that are given to heterosexuals in many societies.

Martin's 1996 study demonstrated that adolescent girls' romanticization of ideal love helped them wait to have sex with their boyfriends until they were ready.

Research shows that often, young girls give into sex with their boyfriends for their initial sexual experiences due to their ______.

Until recently, marriage between two people of the same sex was illegal in the majority of the United States. This demonstrates which of the following concepts?

Stoltenberg imagined a world with a broad array of highly unique people with no sex category.

Kate Bornstein, a trans woman, suggested that we wear ______ in order to show our sexual preference.

Define ethnocentrism. How do ethnocentric views shape our understandings of sexuality? Provide one example of ethnocentric sexual views from the chapter and then discuss one example from your own observations.

Mernissi argues that in Islamic thought, women's sexual desire ______ men's.

Kinsey's theory of sexuality proposed that sexuality is best characterized by______.

Wosick-Correa and Joseph's research on strip clubs showed that when strippers engaged in sidestaging with women customers, they were more likely to reveal their "true" thoughts and identities.

Explain sexual scripts in terms of the nature/nurture debate. Describe gendered variation in sexual scripts, and provide one example.

______ is a Zulu vernacular word used to describe intersex individuals.

Explain the historical process by which the terms "heterosexual" and "homosexual" came to be used in popular language. What does this fact tell us about the nature of sexuality and sexual identity?

How many sex categories exist in John Stoltenberg's imagined world?

Discuss the queer theory approach to sexuality, and explain how it relates to sex categories and gender. How does Bornstein's research suggest we practice sexual activity while adhering to the tenets of queer theory?