Chapter 11 Flashcards
Emergent masculinities, is a term coined in
the research of ________.
a.
Gayle Rubin
b.
Eleanor Leacock
c.
Marchia Inhorn
d.
None of the above
c
According to the film, “Gender Revolution…”, the world is divided into two categories. What are these categories?
a.
Male and female
b.
Intersex and transgenders
c.
Gender and sexuality
d.
Eunuchs and Hijras
A
According to the film, “Gender Revolution…”, what are the major challenges for the transgender people in society?
Select one:
a.
Barriers to get access to the bathrooms
assigned to transgender gender in school
or in other public spaces
b.
Negative social stigma, rudeness or
cruelty for transgender people, regardless
of their ethnic and racial identities
c.
Maltreatment or discrimination in
workplace or public spaces
d.
All of the above answers are correct.
D
The domination of men over women and children is called ________.
Select one:
a.
public/private divide
b.
matriarchy
c.
sexism
d.
patriarchy
D
What is intersex?
Select one:
a.
Individuals who possess ambiguous
genitalia
b.
Individuals who lack genitalia
c.
Individuals who have lack of
reproductive capacity despite having
functional genitalia
d.
Individuals who engage in sexual activity
with all sexes
A
______argues that women and men are equally human and therefore that women are entitled to enjoy the same rights and privileges.
Select one:
a.
Humanism
b.
Feminism
c.
Patriarchy
d.
Chivalry
B
Cultural anthropologists use ________ to specifically refer to the physical characteristics that distinguishes males from females.
Select one:
a.
the terms masculine or feminine
b.
the terms man or woman
c.
the term gender
d.
the term sex
D
Sexuality refers to the ways in which people experience and value physical desire and pleasure in the context of sexual intercourse.
Select one:
True
False
true
Anthropologist Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that the distinctions between sex, gender, and sexuality, developed by Western scholars cannot be mapped onto Iranian categories between sex, gender, and sexuality.
Select one:
True
False
True
Anthropologists strongly accept the idea that a person’s gendered beliefs or behaviour is directly caused by that person’s biological sex.
Select one:
True
False
False
Define feminism.
a theory that argues that men and women are equally human and therefore women are entitled to enjoy the same rights and privileges as men
what were the two waves of feminism?
first wave - a social movement emerged in North America in the 19th- century to obtain women’s equal rights (e.g., women’s voting rights)
Second Wave Feminism: emerged in North America in the middle of 20th- century to challenge remaining forms of inequality between men and women (e.g., patriarchy, sexism) - 1960s and 1970s
define patriarchy
the domination of men over women and children
define sexism.
the systematic sociocultural structures and practices of inequality derived from patriarchal institutions that continue to shape relations between men and women.
what is the private/public model?
socially and culturally constructed barriers between men and women what public life is the domain of men and private domestic family life is the place for a woman.
public life - outside family is for men
private life is for women - the family
what do feminists argue the patriarchy does?
they argue that the patriarchy creates a division between men and women that is a form of inequality and oppression against women.
what is gender?
culturally constructed roles assigned to males or females which varied from society to society.
what is sex?
physical characteristics that distinguish males from females
what is gender binary?
a dual gender category separating all men from all women.
- all societies universally recognize this
