Quiz Questions

Question 0

Connell argues that

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Masculinities are produced together with femininities

Masculinities do not exist prior to social action

Question 1

What is the title of Raewyn Connell’s essay?

Answer 1

Masculinities and Globalization

Question 2

In Allan Johnson’s essay he argues that patriarchy is

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A system we all participate in

Question 3

Patriarchy is about

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Standards of feminine beauty and masculine toughness
Images of feminine vulnerability and masculine protectiveness
The core value of domination and control in every area of human existence

Question 4

Why does Johnson emphasize that patriarchy is a system?

Answer 4

Because it means that it can’t be reduced to the behavior of individual people

Question 5

Nomy Lamm begins her essay talking about a “concept we need all be aware of” and speak of often. What is the concept?

Answer 5

Revolution

Question 6

What is unusual about Lamm’s essay?

Answer 6

She writes as if she is talking using non-academic style and language

Question 7

What does Lamm say has affected her body image the most?

Answer 7

She is fat

Question 8

In focusing on fat oppression, where does Lamm say she gets the message that “fat is ugly”?

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From her experiences with family and friends

From the media

Question 9

Lamm writes “according to _______, I don’t exist”

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Mainstream feminist theory

Question 10

What is the title of Betsy Lucal’s essay?

Answer 10

“What It Means To Be Gendered Me”

Question 11

Lucal discusses another author we read previously in this course. Who is it?

Answer 11

Judith Lorber

Question 12

Lucal’s article summarizes her experience as:

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A woman who is often mistaken for a man

Question 13

The title to Dorothy Allison’s essay is

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A Question Of Class

Question 14

Allison writes, “ I am _____ in a world that hates _____, and ______ in a world that despises ______”

Answer 14

Queer, queers, poor, the poor

Question 15

When does Allison recognize she has been grouped into the notion of the “mythical poor” that glamorizes her conditions of poverty?

Answer 15

When she attends school in Florida

Question 16

Allison explains that the majority of people believe what about poverty?

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That it is a voluntary condition

Question 17

Allison argues that her sexual identity

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Is condemned by traditional feminists
Is connected to her class background

Question 18

Anzaldúa’s chapter is unique because she

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Writes in Spanish and English

Question 19

According to Anzaldúa, most people fear

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The supernatural

Question 20

Who does Anzaldúa connect her Chicana identity to?

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Indigenous native women from the past

Question 21

Where did Anzaldúa grow up?

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Texas

Question 22

Which two institutions does Anzaldúa critique as creating a tyranny?

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Culture and the church

Question 23

In the “pretending to be gay” section, Raymond argues that

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Straight characters pretend to be gay in order to gain more power (which masks heteronormative power )

Question 24

What does GLBT stand for?

Answer 24

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender

Question 25

According to some arguments, what show was cancelled because its main character was gay?

Answer 25

Ellen

Question 27

The title of Diane Raymond’s essay is

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Popular Culture and Queer Representation: A Critical Perspective

Question 28

Raymond explains that “queer” is a term that

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Was once a homophobic slur
Has been reappropriated for GLBT identities
Is an open-ended term that is not “fixed”
Is more universalizing that minoritizing

Question 29

Raymond looks at three patterns in the genre of television she studies. They are:

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Increased appearance of GLBT characters, the “gay pretender”, and the “straight-mistaken-for-gay”

Question 30

What genre of television show does Raymond focus on as a whole?

Answer 30

Situation comedies

Question 31

Raymond chooses this particular genre because

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Viewers know it doesn’t reflect “reality” and is more playful