Multiple Choice

Select the one answer that best completes the thought.

1		The cultural construction of gender refers to:
			A)	the different ways that cultures organize behaviors around the way they view the differences between men and women.
			B)	the different ways societies punish men and women who don't act the way they should
			C)	the way all cultures keep women in domestic spaces
			D)	all of the above.
2		Gender stratification refers to:
			A)	men's economic tasks invariably having greater prestige than women's
			B)	whatever the economic role of men, it is that role the culture values
			C)	gender associations extend into economic and political roles
			D)	all of the above
3		Which of the following statements is not true about veiling in the Middle East?
			A)	it applies only to women
			B)	it disappears as countries modernize and industrialize
			C)	some women take it up to demonstrate their support of Islamic militancy
			D)	feminist rejection of veiling as a violation of human rights may be interpreted some as an ethnocentric rejection of its cultural context
4		Masculinist studies explores:
			A)	the multiple ways that men are inherently more powerful than women because of male biological characteristics
			B)	the universal characteristics of male dominance
			C)	the multiple constructions of masculinity in different cultures and historical periods
			D)	the jobs that men are better at than women
5		Queer studies explores:
			A)	the analytical weaknesses in dichotomous sexual opposites
			B)	the problems associated with dichotomous "gay" and "straight" categories
			C)	multiple, non-exclusive, and overlapping forms of sexual identity
			D)	all of the above