Exam 7: Inequality: Women and Femininities

A woman holds the door open for a man who is hurrying into a building behind her, he hesitates to go through it. The fact that men resist being on the receiving end of chivalry reveals that is about power and inequality, not just being nice or gentlemanly.

Which of the following is evidence of women performing emphasized femininity?

In contemporary American society, men are encouraged to avoid femininity and women are strongly encouraged to embrace both femininity and masculinity. With the help of three examples, explain this phenomenon in your own words.

The idea of a matrix of domination is intended to solve what problem for feminism?

All of the following statements are true EXCEPT

According to their statements, George Sodini and Elliot Roger engaged in mass killing of women because

Why do the authors call benevolent sexism and hostile sexism Plan A and Plan B. respectively, as strategies to ensure women's subordination?

The feminine apologetic is

While documenting parents' nervousness about their son's performance of femininity, the sociologist Emily Kane found that

According to philosopher Sandra Lee Bartky, feminine ways of using the body can be described as

What is the nature of the relationship between hostile sexism and benevolent sexism?

Which of the following concepts is defined as the attribution of positive traits to women that justify their subordination to men?

All of the following statements describe the strategy of emphatic sameness EXCEPT

Explain the phenomenon of double bind. Why do the authors highlight media treatment of Hillary Clinton (who ran for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination in the United States) as an example of double bind? Provide another example of a double bind placed on women in public life and discuss how it fits this concept.

According to Wade and Ferree, the main types of patriarchal bargains available to women are

A deodorant advertisement claims that its product offers both "Secret strength" and "Olay conditioning" for women who are both "one of the guys" and a "heartbreaker." This is an example of

Feminists argue that we are in the middle of a stalled gender revolution in which

Women who perform femininity tend to be more well-liked on the job, but seen as less competent; whereas women who don't tend to be regarded as competent, but not well-liked. This is an example of

What is the main purpose of gender policing?

In the contemporary United States, individual women have more freedom than men to do gender as they like because