SEX AND GENDER

Question 1

What is the difference between sex and gender?

Answer 1

sex is the biological makeup determined by reproductive systems. gender is a social construct

Question 2

What did Kinsey study?

Answer 2

Sexual continuum: sexual scale

Question 3

What did Kinsey’s studies find?

Answer 3

• men have more premarital sex
• men have more extramarital sex
• men have more sex with prostitutes

Question 4

describe the sexual continuum scale

Answer 4

from 0-6.

0: exclusively hetero
6: exclusively homo

Question 5

what question did the David remier case bring about?

Answer 5

is there something biological about gender?

Question 6

why have women become so involoved in the labour force after the 1960’s?

Answer 6

1. increase in demand for private-sector workers
2. decrease in number of children born
3. family finances

Question 7

What’re the reasons for the wage gap?

Answer 7

1. gendered differences in characteristic like education and experience
2. sex segregation
3. discriminations
4. devaluation of work performed by women

Question 8

what do socialist feminism believe in

Answer 8

• eliminate capitalism and patriarchy to free women
• capitalist benefit from women’s work but don’t pay them enough
• the state can change society for the better with laws

Question 9

what do radical femisit believe?

Answer 9

• capitalism doesn’t cause female oppression
• women are oppressed because they are women
• men are more aggressive and dominate women
• the state is the enemy

Question 10

what did mathews study find?

Answer 10

• girls aren’t passive victims of beauty images
• looking better makes you more powerful in society
• other girls are the harshest critics
• there are 4 groups: the elite, the wannabees, life in the middle, the fringe

Question 11

what is the drawback to essentialism?

Answer 11

Ignore the historical and cultural varibaility of gender and sexuality

Question 12

what is essentialism?

Answer 12

belief that there’s naturally, a difference between men and women

Question 13

what is the oedipus and electra compexes?

Answer 13

Freud’s belief and males and females went through different sexual maturation processes

Question 14

what does prof dumas believe?

Answer 14

there is no pink and blue brain. just one human brain

Question 15

what actually causes sex differences?

Answer 15

social constructionism

1. warfare and conquest
2. separation of public and private spheres
3. plow agriculture

Question 16

what are the relationships like in equal societies?

Answer 16

less age- gap relationships

Question 17

what did mckinnon beleive?

Answer 17

all hetero relationships inherently have power imbalance and all hetero sex is therefore rape

Question 18

what do intersectional feminists believe in?

Answer 18

• oppression exists in many forms and is cumulative
• gender is a social construct
• we can eliminate inequality by outlining how gender is a social construct