Exam 8: Sexuality and Gender

Describe the history of feminism in Canada. Identify feminist achievements in bringing Canada closer to having gender equality and provide examples.

Survey the toys that are currently available in stores. Create a set of characteristics that would identify a toy as feminine, masculine, or gender-neutral. Apply these criteria to catalogue the toys in your survey. Use your results to explain what gender socialization is current, and identify any evidence of the promotion of feminist ideals.

Explain Talcott Parsons' functionalist claim that masculinity is a series of instrumental traits and that femininity is a series of expressive traits.

Rob and his teenage son Doug have been arguing a great deal in the last few months. Doug doesn't like the activities that Rob liked when he was a youth: sports, like football, and hobbies, like fixing cars. Doug is much more interested in literature and fashion. Rob tells Doug that he is worried that if he persists in pursuing these activities girls will think he's not manly, and will not want to be his girlfriend. According to the textbook, which of the following perspectives is Rob adopting with regard to Doug's behaviour?

Steve was asked to be a member of the hiring committee of his sociology department. The committee screened over 100 resumes, and interviewed the 4 best candidates. Two were women and two were men. One of his colleagues on the committee felt strongly that, even though both women were fully qualified for the position, with excellent research credentials and recommendations from their previous employers, since they were likely to want to have babies as soon as they found full-time employment, the committee really could only consider the male candidates. This is an example of which of the following?

Define the social constructionist's explanation of gender.

According to the textbook, lack of child care in Canada means which of the following for many Canadian women with small children?

Megan believes that the subordination of women developed alongside industrial capitalism: when people began to acquire surplus wealth and property, they required a system of inheritance. Since men can never be sure of the parentage of their children in the same way women can, men needed to develop a way to control women. Which theory is Megan's belief consistent with?

If Timothy acts the way that boys are expected to act, what is he following?

Third-wave feminism championed which of the following causes?

Shulamith vehemently believes that women's inequality stems from the actions of men, through violence and control over politics and the economy. She believes that the only way that women can get out from under patriarchy is to stop reproducing or having relationships with men, as even the best-intentioned men reproduce the harmful dynamics of patriarchy. Which theory is Shulamith's position consistent with?

Research the career aspirations of young adolescents, aged 13 or 14 years, paying attention to how gender ideologies have an influence on the decisions that they make.

Outline the role of advertising and the abundance of consumer products in the production of body image ideals.

A person has no real gender identity until the age of five or six years.

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

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

Talcott Parsons characterized the essence of femininity as nurturance and sensitivity to others. What term did he use to describe these traits?

What term is used for people who believe that they were born into a body of the wrong sex?

Lisa has always been romantically attracted to girls and women, and she entered into her first relationship with another woman while in college. What is Lisa's sexual orientation?

The most important achievements of first-wave feminism were getting the right to vote for women and the right to be considered persons under the law.