Question 1

Why would anyone call World War II a "nationwide 'coming out' experience"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Because homosexuals were mobilized to the war effort even if they openly declared their sexuality. 
B)  Because putting so many young men together in same-sex environments offered them opportunities for homoerotic encounters. 
C)  Because people in the United States finally recognized that homosexuality is an identity, not only an occasional practice. 
D)  Because gays and lesbians in the U.S. military pushed for visibility and accommodations. 
A)  Because homosexuals were mobilized to the war effort even if they openly declared their sexuality. 
B)  Because putting so many young men together in same-sex environments offered them opportunities for homoerotic encounters. 
C)  Because people in the United States finally recognized that homosexuality is an identity, not only an occasional practice. 
D)  Because gays and lesbians in the U.S. military pushed for visibility and accommodations. B

Question 2

The idea of a family wage is meant to

Accepted Answer

A)  encourage everyone in the family to work to support each other. 
B)  enable some men to earn a wage sufficient to support a nonemployed wife and several children. 
C)  ensure that all men were paid more than women. 
D)  defend the idea that housewives should be paid for the work they did to take care of a home and children. 
A)  encourage everyone in the family to work to support each other. 
B)  enable some men to earn a wage sufficient to support a nonemployed wife and several children. 
C)  ensure that all men were paid more than women. 
D)  defend the idea that housewives should be paid for the work they did to take care of a home and children. B

Question 3

Which of the following definitions best describes a breadwinner/housewife marriage?

Accepted Answer

A)  Women are legally subordinated to men. 
B)  Women offer men domestic services and men support them financially. 
C)  Women marry by choice and expect love in their relationship. 
D)  Women can only meet the expectations of their role by staying at home full-time nurturing children. 
A)  Women are legally subordinated to men. 
B)  Women offer men domestic services and men support them financially. 
C)  Women marry by choice and expect love in their relationship. 
D)  Women can only meet the expectations of their role by staying at home full-time nurturing children. B

Question 4

What best describes the gender relations of 1950s?

Accepted Answer

A)  They were unusually family focused. 
B)  Achieving the "American dream" put more financial strain on men than ever before. 
C)  It was a decade of increased interest in feminism and sexual liberation. 
D)  Men and women grew increasingly tolerant of homosexual behavior. 
A)  They were unusually family focused. 
B)  Achieving the "American dream" put more financial strain on men than ever before. 
C)  It was a decade of increased interest in feminism and sexual liberation. 
D)  Men and women grew increasingly tolerant of homosexual behavior.

Question 5

What impact did the publication of the Feminist Mystique have on U.S. gender relations?

Accepted Answer

A)  It revealed how many American teenagers were breaking gender-specific sexual rules and thus challenged the double standard. 
B)  It showed that Americans of all ages were breaking the sexual rules and began to normalize same-sex relations. 
C)  It showed that middle-class women were frustrated and unhappy with breadwinner/housewife marriage. 
D)  It revealed how unhappy both women and men were with the division of labor in the breadwinner/housewife marriage. 
A)  It revealed how many American teenagers were breaking gender-specific sexual rules and thus challenged the double standard. 
B)  It showed that Americans of all ages were breaking the sexual rules and began to normalize same-sex relations. 
C)  It showed that middle-class women were frustrated and unhappy with breadwinner/housewife marriage. 
D)  It revealed how unhappy both women and men were with the division of labor in the breadwinner/housewife marriage.

Question 6

The "good girl/bad girl dichotomy" refers to which social idea?

Accepted Answer

A)  Poor women usually are bad girls, and upper and middle class women are good girls. 
B)  Good girls are mothers, and bad girls are not. 
C)  Women who limit themselves sexually are worthy of respect, and women who have sex with "too many" men are not. 
D)  Modern women, unlike the chaste women of the Victorian era, are interested in having sex. 
A)  Poor women usually are bad girls, and upper and middle class women are good girls. 
B)  Good girls are mothers, and bad girls are not. 
C)  Women who limit themselves sexually are worthy of respect, and women who have sex with "too many" men are not. 
D)  Modern women, unlike the chaste women of the Victorian era, are interested in having sex.

Question 7

The "cult of domesticity" refers to which of these ideas?

Accepted Answer

A)  People should value domesticity over other forms of labor. 
B)  Women as devoted mothers and wives should make home a "heaven on Earth." 
C)  Women and men should have leisure at home rather than work extensive hours. 
D)  People should marry for love rather than for passing on property. 
A)  People should value domesticity over other forms of labor. 
B)  Women as devoted mothers and wives should make home a "heaven on Earth." 
C)  Women and men should have leisure at home rather than work extensive hours. 
D)  People should marry for love rather than for passing on property.

Question 8

The term 'marriage-go-around' was used to refer to what American social practice?

Accepted Answer

A)  High rates of premarital cohabitation among younger generations of Americans. 
B)  Higher rates of both cohabitation and marriage among Americans compared to other countries. 
C)  Higher rates of both divorce and remarriage among Americans compared with other countries. 
D)  Higher rates of cohabitation, marriage, and divorce among Americans compared with other countries. 
A)  High rates of premarital cohabitation among younger generations of Americans. 
B)  Higher rates of both cohabitation and marriage among Americans compared to other countries. 
C)  Higher rates of both divorce and remarriage among Americans compared with other countries. 
D)  Higher rates of cohabitation, marriage, and divorce among Americans compared with other countries.

Question 9

Which of the following statements reflects change in the twentieth century ?

Accepted Answer

A)  Poor women and women of color entered the wage economy after middle-class white women. 
B)  Marriage bans ensured that only white married women could get jobs, not unmarried women or women of color. 
C)  The family wage was not extended to most men of color or immigrant men. 
D)  As soon as more educated white women entered paid work, women started to have access to better paying jobs. 
A)  Poor women and women of color entered the wage economy after middle-class white women. 
B)  Marriage bans ensured that only white married women could get jobs, not unmarried women or women of color. 
C)  The family wage was not extended to most men of color or immigrant men. 
D)  As soon as more educated white women entered paid work, women started to have access to better paying jobs.

Question 10

The breadwinner/housewife model did not offer women economic equality because

Accepted Answer

A)  the money women earned at home was less than what men earned at work. 
B)  working-class women and women of color could not legally work in factories, unlike men of these groups who held these industrial jobs. 
C)  access to a living wage came through men, and the work women did in maintaining a household was no longer recognized as work. 
D)  men did not really depend on women's cooking, cleaning, shopping, and childcare. 
A)  the money women earned at home was less than what men earned at work. 
B)  working-class women and women of color could not legally work in factories, unlike men of these groups who held these industrial jobs. 
C)  access to a living wage came through men, and the work women did in maintaining a household was no longer recognized as work. 
D)  men did not really depend on women's cooking, cleaning, shopping, and childcare.

Question 11

Feminists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries contributed to changing the rules of marriage by

Accepted Answer

A)  claiming that women were entitled to say no to sex even with their husbands. 
B)  insisting that women should have the legal right to control the income they earned and children they bore. 
C)  emphasizing that men and women should be loving companions to each other. 
D)  All of the above. 
A)  claiming that women were entitled to say no to sex even with their husbands. 
B)  insisting that women should have the legal right to control the income they earned and children they bore. 
C)  emphasizing that men and women should be loving companions to each other. 
D)  All of the above.

Question 12

How might the fact that 1957 saw the highest rate of teen pregnancy in American history best be explained?

Accepted Answer

A)  Working class teens in the booming economy had little incentive to complete their education. 
B)  The cultural emphasis on family and children led to a drop in the age of marriage, so women were married and had their first child as teenagers. 
C)  Going steady led young people to fall in love and accelerate their sexual experimentation over time. 
D)  Laws prohibiting statutory rape were not yet in place, and men took advantage of the lack of parental supervision. 
A)  Working class teens in the booming economy had little incentive to complete their education. 
B)  The cultural emphasis on family and children led to a drop in the age of marriage, so women were married and had their first child as teenagers. 
C)  Going steady led young people to fall in love and accelerate their sexual experimentation over time. 
D)  Laws prohibiting statutory rape were not yet in place, and men took advantage of the lack of parental supervision.

Question 13

Marriage has been socially organized under three models. Explain each model, the reasons they emerged, and why they fell apart.

Accepted Answer

The three models of socially organized m

Question 14

What is sex for? Over the course of American history, people have had different ideas about what sex was for. Using American Indians, the Puritans and Victorians, young people of the 1920s and the 1950s, and Americans today, trace the shifting ideas about the purpose of sex and the cultural and institutional changes that led to those shifts.

Accepted Answer

Sex has served different purposes throug

Question 15

Which of the following is true of sex and marriage in the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

A)  City jobs for both young men and women proliferated, providing new venues for urban youth to engage in sexual encounters. 
B)  Unavailability of contraceptives kept young couples only 'necking' and 'petting' rather than 'going all the way.' 
C)  Conservative interests drove the marriage age down, thereby 'sparing' young couples from the need to engage in premarital sex. 
D)  The rise of suburbs and availability of cars gave youth more opportunity to socialize without parents' or neighbors' supervision. 
A)  City jobs for both young men and women proliferated, providing new venues for urban youth to engage in sexual encounters. 
B)  Unavailability of contraceptives kept young couples only 'necking' and 'petting' rather than 'going all the way.' 
C)  Conservative interests drove the marriage age down, thereby 'sparing' young couples from the need to engage in premarital sex. 
D)  The rise of suburbs and availability of cars gave youth more opportunity to socialize without parents' or neighbors' supervision.

Question 16

The increasing importance of the cosmetic industry from the 1920s to the present has reflected how

Accepted Answer

A)  purity, domesticity, and romance were increasingly separate ideals for women to pursue. 
B)  courtship based on "dating" and "treating" have become less important. 
C)  women's investments in their appearance became strategically important. 
D)  women's sexual activities depended on their having the money to invest in these new goods. 
A)  purity, domesticity, and romance were increasingly separate ideals for women to pursue. 
B)  courtship based on "dating" and "treating" have become less important. 
C)  women's investments in their appearance became strategically important. 
D)  women's sexual activities depended on their having the money to invest in these new goods.

Question 17

Which of the following statements best defines a partnership marriage?

Accepted Answer

A)  Women and men have equal legal rights and obligations and base their relationship on companionship. 
B)  A marriage that is based on civil union laws instead of marriage laws. 
C)  It requires one man and one woman to commit to each other as partners for life. 
D)  Women and men commit to dividing their paid and unpaid labor exactly equally. 
A)  Women and men have equal legal rights and obligations and base their relationship on companionship. 
B)  A marriage that is based on civil union laws instead of marriage laws. 
C)  It requires one man and one woman to commit to each other as partners for life. 
D)  Women and men commit to dividing their paid and unpaid labor exactly equally.

Question 18

The 1920s were a watershed period in young people's sexuality. What new opportunities did women and men encounter? What were the costs and benefits for each gender?

Accepted Answer

The 1920s were indeed a watershed period

Question 19

What does the concept of commodification convey?

Accepted Answer

A)  exchanges between productive labor in factories and reproductive labor at home 
B)  the advertising that is used to sell things 
C)  goods and services being brought into markets to be bought and sold 
D)  making useful things at home. 
A)  exchanges between productive labor in factories and reproductive labor at home 
B)  the advertising that is used to sell things 
C)  goods and services being brought into markets to be bought and sold 
D)  making useful things at home.

Question 20

What did college students in the 1920s mean by 'smashing'?

Accepted Answer

A)  breaking rules 
B)  having heterosexual contacts 
C)  finding someone very attractive 
D)  having a same-sex crush 
A)  breaking rules 
B)  having heterosexual contacts 
C)  finding someone very attractive 
D)  having a same-sex crush

Why would anyone call World War II a "nationwide 'coming out' experience"?

The idea of a family wage is meant to

Which of the following definitions best describes a breadwinner/housewife marriage?

What best describes the gender relations of 1950s?

What impact did the publication of the Feminist Mystique have on U.S. gender relations?

The "good girl/bad girl dichotomy" refers to which social idea?

The "cult of domesticity" refers to which of these ideas?

The term 'marriage-go-around' was used to refer to what American social practice?

Which of the following statements reflects change in the twentieth century ?

The breadwinner/housewife model did not offer women economic equality because

Feminists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries contributed to changing the rules of marriage by

How might the fact that 1957 saw the highest rate of teen pregnancy in American history best be explained?

Marriage has been socially organized under three models. Explain each model, the reasons they emerged, and why they fell apart.

Which of the following is true of sex and marriage in the 1950s?

The increasing importance of the cosmetic industry from the 1920s to the present has reflected how

Which of the following statements best defines a partnership marriage?

The 1920s were a watershed period in young people's sexuality. What new opportunities did women and men encounter? What were the costs and benefits for each gender?

What does the concept of commodification convey?

What did college students in the 1920s mean by 'smashing'?

Ideas

Bodies

Performance

Intersections

Inequality, Men and Masculinities

Inequality: Women and Femininities

Institutions

Sexualities

Families

Work

Politics

Filters

Exam 9: Change

Why would anyone call World War II a "nationwide 'coming out' experience"?

The idea of a family wage is meant to

Which of the following definitions best describes a breadwinner/housewife marriage?

What best describes the gender relations of 1950s?

What impact did the publication of the Feminist Mystique have on U.S. gender relations?

The "good girl/bad girl dichotomy" refers to which social idea?

The "cult of domesticity" refers to which of these ideas?

The term 'marriage-go-around' was used to refer to what American social practice?

Which of the following statements reflects change in the twentieth century ?

The breadwinner/housewife model did not offer women economic equality because

Feminists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries contributed to changing the rules of marriage by

How might the fact that 1957 saw the highest rate of teen pregnancy in American history best be explained?

Marriage has been socially organized under three models. Explain each model, the reasons they emerged, and why they fell apart.

Which of the following is true of sex and marriage in the 1950s?

The increasing importance of the cosmetic industry from the 1920s to the present has reflected how

Which of the following statements best defines a partnership marriage?

The 1920s were a watershed period in young people's sexuality. What new opportunities did women and men encounter? What were the costs and benefits for each gender?

What does the concept of commodification convey?

What did college students in the 1920s mean by 'smashing'?

Ideas

Bodies

Performance

Intersections

Inequality, Men and Masculinities

Inequality: Women and Femininities

Institutions

Sexualities

Families

Work

Politics

Filters