Question 1

The increasing importance of the cosmetics 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. C

Question 2

Which of the following statements best defines a partnership marriage?

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A)  Women and men are two equals who negotiate a division of labor,and they base their relationships on companionship.
B)  It is a marriage 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 and the laws enforce this arrangement. A

Question 3

What best describes the gender relations of the 1950s?

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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

Question 4

Which of the following best describes the changes in the U.S.population?

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A)  Marriage rates have been dropping consistently since the end of World War II.
B)  Almost every American alive today has had a cohabiting relation with someone without being married to them.
C)  About forty percent of all American children today are born to an unmarried parent.
D)  About forty percent of all black children are born to an unmarried parent.

Question 5

Alex believes that women are naturally chaste and are motivated by love while men are naturally more vulgar and filled with sexual desire.Alex is demonstrating which term?

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A)  the cult of domesticity
B)  a gendered love/sex binary
C)  partnership marriage
D)  separate spheres

Question 6

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

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Question 7

What does the concept of commodification convey?

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A)  exchanges between productive labor in factories and reproductive labor at home
B)  the advertising that is used to sell things
C)  the making of things that can be bought and sold
D)  making useful things at home

Question 8

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

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A)  People should value domesticity over other forms of labor.
B)  Women as devoted mothers and wives should embrace supportive and loving emotional work.
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 9

The idea of a family wage is meant to

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A)  encourage everyone in the family to work to support each other.
B)  enable some men to earn a wage sufficient to support an unemployed 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.

Question 10

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

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

Question 11

Marriage has been socially organized under three models.Explain each model,the reasons it emerged,and why it fell out of society's favor (if it has).

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Question 12

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.

Question 13

How has industrial change created incentives to have fewer children?

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A)  People can't afford more children because each child requires expensive electronics.
B)  People prefer to spend their time watching TV rather than having sex.
C)  People get access to condoms,which are cheap and effective means of contraception.
D)  People have to pay for more expensive technologies in hospitals to give birth.

Question 14

Zoey has found her grandmother's dairy from when she attended college in the 1920s.In multiple entries,Zoey's grandmother describes female classmates for whom she has same-sex crushes.These diary entries are good examples of which term?

Accepted Answer

A)  gendered love
B)  sexual binary
C)  smashing
D)  treating

Question 15

First,compare and contrast calling to dating.Then evaluate the power relationships within each.Between male and female partners,who do you think holds more power in calling? What about in dating? Why is this the case? Make sure to provide detailed evidence to support your claims.

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Question 16

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

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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 17

Feminists in the 1960s and 1970s contributed to changing the rules of marriage by

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A)  emphasizing that women and men were jointly responsible for housework and had to negotiate who would do what.
B)  insisting that every woman should be employed full time for her entire adult life,regardless of whether she had children.
C)  claiming that women who were sexually active should be legally entitled to avoid pregnancy regardless of whether they were married.
D)  suggesting that men and women hyphenate their two last names after marriage to symbolize the equal partnership that should exist between them.

Question 18

Why did enslaved Africans during the colonial period engage in premarital sex?

Accepted Answer

A)  They had more opportunities to socialize across gender lines than whites did.
B)  They did not restrict their own sexuality as severely as did whites.
C)  They had greater sexual desire than whites.
D)  Most could not legally marry.

Question 19

The lives of men and women have changed dramatically during America's short history.Give an example each of a technological,economic,political,and demographic change and describe how it shifted gender relations.

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Question 20

Which of the following definitions best describes a patriarchal marriage?

Accepted Answer

A)  Men are heads of the household and women are their property.
B)  Men as fathers have control over their daughters but not their sons.
C)  Men receive a family wage to support women and children.
D)  Because men are breadwinners,they are the decision makers in both the public and domestic spheres.

Exam 8: Change