Exam 2

Question 1

The status quo involves

Answer 1

Established patterns of power, systems of inequality that enforce isms, and political power groups

Question 2

The article Cyberactivism and the role of women in the Arab uprisings the focus is

Answer 2

Citizen journalism, feminist blogging, and social networking

Question 3

In Cyberactivism and the role of women in the Arab uprisings research emphasizes that women’s Cyberactivism plays a roles in…

Answer 3

Transformed women’s access to the public sphere

Question 4

Which of the following are illustrative of the politics of sexuality?

Answer 4

Valentine’s Day, bans in marriage equality, and prom as a heterosexual event

Question 5

The coming out process involves

Answer 5

Recognizing and identifying ones sexual orientation to oneself, and sharing this orientation in a public way.

Question 6

T/F According to cult of virginity abstinence education is problematic from a feminist perspective even though it has reduced the high number of sexually transmitted diseases among youth.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

Cult of Virginity author uses which term to describe a component of social meanings associated with virginity?

Answer 7

Ethics of intimacy

Question 8

T/F a central point made in New Directions is that sexual desire is a fundamental assumption of human nature.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

T/F Medicalization is the process whereby normal functions of the body come to be seen as indicative of disease

Answer 9

True

Question 10

T/F androcentrism in health implies the ways the health care system in the US is set up to maintain the privileges of white people and provide differential access for people of color.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

T/F Native American women are among the largest group of women in us society who have been sterilized against their will.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

The HIV infection rate for African American women is Beale throw many times as feet than that for white women?

Answer 12

Twenty times

Question 13

What disease is discussed in Chapter 7 on women and health is discussed in the context of corporate responsibility and environmental issues?

Answer 13

Breast cancer

Question 14

By the year 2030 women will make up what percentage of people over 85?

Answer 14

81%

Question 15

Eugenics is the practice and belief that

Answer 15

Only certain groups should reproduce

Question 16

What Supreme Court ruling removed the state wide ban on abortion

Answer 16

Roe v Wade

Question 17

The Supreme Court ruling that removed the Ban on abortion occurred when

Answer 17

1973

Question 18

When did the Supreme Court remove the ban on contraceptives for married persons?

Answer 18

Mid 1960s

Question 19

What laws regulated contraception in the us?

Answer 19

Comstock Laws

Question 20

T/F African American children are about twice as likely to end up in foster care as white children.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

The Laci Peterson Law

Answer 21

Gave a fetus the same rights as the mother

Question 22

What is involved in the only good abortion is my abortion definition is a good abortion?

Answer 22

A married women

Question 23

The head complement model of family structure and power tends to encourage women to work in the labor force and then put in another’s days work in the home

Answer 23

False

Question 24

Households headed by women have half the income and less than a third of their wealth of other US families

Answer 24

True

Question 25

Approx what number of wives take their husbands name?

Answer 25

9 out of 10

Question 26

The fact that companies provide better and more flexible family options for their higher paid employees is an example of

Answer 26

Classism

Question 27

The specific term for marriage with multiple wives is

Answer 27

Polygyny

Question 28

The ways that boys tend to be given more freedom in the family than girls to explore and experience their sexuality is an example of

Answer 28

Double standard of sexual conduct

Question 29

The contemporary US family is

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Diverse, a conduit for inequality

Question 30

Marriage equality is a feminist issue the term marriage equality refers to

Answer 30

Gay marriage

Question 31

The wrong fight critiques gay marriage as a central impetus because it embraces

Answer 31

Heteronormativity

Question 32

Marriage equality and beyond is critical of the focus on marriage equality because it detracts from focus on

Answer 32

Violence, discrimination, and social excursion of LGBT people

Question 33

T/F less than 5% of stay at home parents in the us are father

Answer 33

True

Question 34

T/F The poverty rate for single mothers is about twice as high as the rate for single fathers.

Answer 34

True

Question 35

Nationwide nearly 2 million kids have parents in prison with almost 1/4 of these children being placed in foster care.

Answer 35

False

Question 36

Gay themed television shows support and resist which of inequality and privilege?

Answer 36

Heterosexism