 |
1 | |
In Reading 9 (The Social Construction of Gender), Judith Lorber argues that, for the most part, people reproduce/replicate gender in the very same ways in which it has been done before.
|
| | A) | True
|
| | B) | False
|
|
|
2 | |
According to Michael Kimmel in Reading 10 (Masculinity as Homophobia), the fear of being seen as a sissy dominates the cultural definitions of manhood.
|
| | A) | True
|
| | B) | False
|
|
|
3 | |
According to Michael Messner in Reading 11 (Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities), his research supports the theory that many professional athletes are instinctually or "naturally" attracted to sports, and that this explains their ability.
|
| | A) | True
|
| | B) | False
|
|
|
4 | |
In Reading 12 (Color, Hair Texture, and Standards of Beauty), Patricia Hill Collins argues that we must acknowledge hierarchies within groups of women of color.
|
| | A) | True
|
| | B) | False
|
|
|
5 | |
In Reading 13 (The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria), Judith Ortiz Cofer describes feeling out of place at American parties because she knew very little English.
|
| | A) | True
|
| | B) | False
|
|
|
6 | |
According to Tommi Avicolli in Reading 14 (He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy), "faggot" was a general term used in school to chastise almost anyone who didn't conform.
|
| | A) | True
|
| | B) | False
|
|
|
7 | |
According to Linnea Due in Reading 15 (Growing Up Hidden), early in life she had the same dreams as other girls she knew about marrying a man.
|
| | A) | True
|
| | B) | False
|
|
|
8 | |
In Reading 17 (Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada: A Cultural Politics of Violence), according to Julie Peteet and her respondents, the Israeli campaign of arrests, beatings, and detainments is successfully controlling Palestinian resistance.
|
| | A) | True
|
| | B) | False
|
|
|
9 | |
According to Julie Peteet in Reading 17 (Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada: A Cultural Politics of Violence), the physical violence experienced by Palestinian males is considered a rite of passage because:
|
| | A) | they go through puberty shortly after experiencing the violence
|
| | B) | they are temporarily removed from the community
|
| | C) | they experience a loss of innocence
|
| | D) | manhood is defined by violence in Palestinian culture
|
|
|
10 | |
In Reading 9 (The Social Construction of Gender), Judith Lorber argues that gender is maintained by all of the following EXCEPT:
|
| | A) | religious imperatives
|
| | B) | cultural representations
|
| | C) | formal sanctions
|
| | D) | laws against cross-dressing
|
|
|
11 | |
In Michael Kimmel's discussion of power in Reading 10 (Masculinity as Homophobia), which of the following is NOT stated?
|
| | A) | Feminist women assume a symmetry between public and private power.
|
| | B) | Men generally have a sense of their power and act on it.
|
| | C) | Men find it difficult to hear from feminist women that men have all the power.
|
| | D) | Some men's movements encourage men to feel that they need more power.
|
|
|
12 | |
According to Michael Messner in Reading 11 (Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities), involvement in sports is constructive because it:
|
| | A) | provides attachment with others
|
| | B) | helps promote a "competitive" character
|
| | C) | helps channel excess energy resulting from puberty
|
| | D) | teaches boys how to be real men
|
|
|
13 | |
In Reading 12 (Color, Hair Texture, and Standards of Beauty), Patricia Hill Collins suggests that the pain felt most by imposing standards of beauty on Black women comes from:
|
| | A) | close white women friends
|
| | B) | other Black women
|
| | C) | family
|
| | D) | husbands
|
|
|
14 | |
According to Judith Ortiz Cofer in Reading 13 (The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria), stereotypes of Latina women include all of the following EXCEPT:
|
| | A) | sexually sizzling
|
| | B) | domestics
|
| | C) | overly accessorized
|
| | D) | intellectual
|
|
|
15 | |
In Reading 14 (He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy), Tommi Avicolli reports finding support in:
|
| | A) | religion
|
| | B) | the gay community
|
| | C) | his family
|
| | D) | all of the above
|
|
|
16 | |
According to Linnea Due in Reading 15 (Growing Up Hidden), she was kicked out of the Girl Scouts for:
|
| | A) | kissing another girl
|
| | B) | being too masculine
|
| | C) | getting into fights with other girls
|
| | D) | saying she was gay
|
|
|
17 | |
According to Danny Kaplan in Reading 16 (The Military as a Second Bar Mitzvah: Combat Service as Initiation to Zionist Masculinity), if Nir's homosexuality is found out, many will also think that he is:
|
| | A) | demonic
|
| | B) | not religious enough
|
| | C) | leftist
|
| | D) | all of the above
|
|
|
18 | |
According to Danny Kaplan in Reading 16 (The Military as a Second Bar Mitzvah: Combat Service as Initiation to Zionist Masculinity), Nir's combat service:
|
| | A) | is in opposition to his upbringing on the Kibbutz
|
| | B) | singles him out from his gay friends
|
| | C) | is an expression of his intense religiosity
|
| | D) | helps him shed his feminine behavior
|
|
2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education