Exam 8: Gender

Discuss the connection between sex and power in reference to homosexuality.Give a historical progression of homosexuality.Include Foucault's philosophy and Kinsey's study.

Sociologist Cynthia Fuchs Epstein argues that deceptive distinctions are those sex differences that arise out of the roles individuals occupy,rather than from some innate force.Which of the following is NOT an example of deceptive distinctions?

Harvard president Larry Summers stated that at the highest levels of performance,men might have an innate advantage over women in scientific aptitude and that genetic differences could explain the scarcity of female "hard" scientists at elite universities.Journalists termed this:

Judith Lorber believes that gender is a social institution because it is:

John Gray,author of Men Are from Mars,Women Are from Venus (1992),takes the position that the different temperaments,emotions,and languages of males and females are rooted in:

Which group argues that sexuality in America is an expression of the unequal power balance between men and women?

Which theoretical perspective assumed that every society had certain structures that existed to fulfill some set of necessary functions?

Opponents of gay and lesbian couplings claim that homosexuality is unnatural because they believe sex should only be about:

Which theory might argue that "it is beneficial for society as a whole when men and women stick to their 'normal' roles"?

Gender structures social relationships between people unequally.This is a statement that would be supported by which group?

An essentialist would argue all of the following for why women outnumber men in occupations that involve caring EXCEPT:

In our society,we take for granted that sex has only two categories and tend to ignore facts that suggest sex itself is socially constructed.All of the following are outcomes of this sexual dichotomization EXCEPT:

In the classroom,compared to girls,boys are:

All of the following terms characterize essentialist thinking EXCEPT:

Black feminists essentially argue all of the following EXCEPT that:

Which theoretical perspective argues that gender is a product of social interactions and that by "doing gender," men and women create and contribute to the gendered patterns we see?

Feminist philosopher Elizabeth Grosz proposed that we view the relationship between sex (the natural)and gender (the social)as existing on a Möbius strip because:

Feminist psychoanalyst Nancy Chodorow believes that if men share mothering with women,then:

In the 1980s,what group believed that unequal gender relationships were at the root of all social relationships?

The study of gender is basically the study of how two spheres shape each other.What are the two spheres?