Deck 1: Introduction

Question 1

Why is there such a high gender disparity in mortality rates in environmental disasters?

A) Women are taught fewer survival skills, such as swimming and tree climbing.
B) Taking responsibility for others, especially children, prevented women from escaping floods.
C) Female clothing can inhibit movement.
D) The division of labor puts women in more dangerous places.
E) All of the above

Answer 1

E

Question 2

What does "race ethnicity" refer to in this book?

A) The idea that race and ethnicity are both biological factors, and it is incorrect to separate them
B) The idea that race is biological and ethnicity is social, so they need to be considered together
C) The idea that race and ethnicity are both social factors that are intertwined
D) A combination of cultural heritage, skin color, and birthplace

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What are the highest-ranking nations in gender equality?

A) Scandinavian and European nations
B) Spain and Italy
C) Eastern European nations
D) The USA and Canada

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What is intersectional analysis?

A) A type of scholarship that takes the "view from below" by considering the point of view people marginalized by gender
B) A form of analysis that looks at the crosscutting inequalities that complicate gendered differences, such as race ethnicity, class, sexuality, and nation
C) A way of deconstructing differences by considering the binaries at their foundation
D) A form of critique that dissects the genealogy of the subject

Question 5

What does the term "hegemonic masculinity" refer to?

A) The culturally exalted form of masculinity that is linked to institutional power
B) Male styles of being that are marginalized by existing power structures
C) A way that men can inhabit their masculinity so it is respectful of women
D) A type of masculinity that refuses patriarchal privilege

Question 6

What does the term "emphasized femininity" refer to?

A) The idea that gender is a cultural performance
B) The idea that there is a biological aspect to gender as well as a cultural aspect
C) The media version of womanhood that is "organized, financed, and supervised by men"
D) Radical feminism that combats gender oppression at the institutional level

Question 7

What was the first wave of the American women's movement?

A) The movement that began in the 19th century and focused on suffrage
B) The movement that began in the late 18th century and focused on the rights of women working in factories
C) The way in which the women's movement shifted its focus in the 1960s from suffrage to sexual freedom
D) This refers to the first time the women's movement acknowledged race ethnicity and intersectionality.

Question 8

What commonality do the first and second waves of the American women's movement share?

A) They both occurred in the 1970s.
B) Both were rooted in lesbian-feminism.
C) They both involved the fight for universal suffrage.
D) They were both originated in movements against racism.

Question 9

What was the focus of the transnational feminist platform at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing?

A) Women and poverty
B) Education and training
C) Women's health
D) Violence against women
E) All of the above

Question 10

What is neoliberalism?

A) The idea that all humans in a free nation deserve certain basic rights, such as education and health care
B) The economic policy that supports free (unregulated) markets and the privatization of state welfare provisions
C) The political position of the far left in the post-millennial age
D) This refers to all liberation movements that occurred after 1960, including women's liberation, black liberation, and rebellions against colonial powers.

Question 11

What is third wave feminism?

A) A feminist philosophy that emerged in the 1990s
B) A movement for gender equality that reflected the legal, political, and social gains won by the previous generation
C) A feminist movement that was more inclusive of women of all backgrounds and identities than the movement that came before.
D) All of the above.

Question 12

The World Economic Forum (WEF) assigns gender equality scores to nations based on four criteria. Which is NOT one of them?

A) Economic opportunity and participation
B) Maternal age and birthrate
C) Educational attainment
D) Political participation

Question 13

What is second wave feminism?

A) The 1960s and 70s feminist women's rights movement which emphasized women's legal equality and rights to public sphere opportunities
B) Early 20^th century feminism focused on gender equality goals like voting rights
C) The feminist movement of the 1990s which sought to address the shortcomings of the previous generation's feminist movements
D) The feminist movement of the 2010s which has expanded its focus to include the experiences of transgender people and men.

Question 14

Second wave feminism had two branches. Who comprised the older branch?

A) Activists working for the liberation of both enslaved people and women
B) Women promoting legal equality through new organizations like NOW
C) Racist white feminists who believed white women should be able to vote to counter the votes of Black men
D) Socialist feminists who were sometimes also associated with the anti-war movement

Question 15

Who comprised the younger branch of second wave feminism?

A) Feminists who emphasized intersectionality and the need for greater inclusion of mothers, women of color, and Lesbians
B) Women promoting legal equality through new organizations like NOW
C) Racist white feminists who believed white women should be able to vote to counter the votes of Black men
D) Socialist feminists who were sometimes also associated with the anti-war movement

Question 16

What is standpoint epistemology?

A) The idea that research should be objective
B) The idea that all opinions are valid
C) The idea that researchers cannot be objective and should not claim to be
D) The idea that research can only be valid if we avoid applying our personal perspectives

Question 17

Which of the following guidelines best summarizes a feminist approach to research?

A) Researchers should acknowledge the fact that their political opinions and interests shape their studies and identify what those opinions and interests are.
B) People of all genders can conduct feminist research but only if they are studying women.
C) Not all research is feminist, but all feminist research is conducted by women.
D) Researchers should do their best to put their political opinions and interests aside when conducting research.

Question 18

This book takes the position that gender and race/ethnicity of social and political constructs. What does this mean?

A) They are categories that are socially constructed, meaning that human communities have created and defined them.
B) They are ideas used to support unequal power relations.
C) They are not stable and objective categories but ones whose meanings fluctuate over time and place.
D) All of the above.

Question 19

This book is based on three core assumptions informing the study of gender. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

A) Gender is socially based and politically structured.
B) Gender inequality is based on physical differences between male and female bodies.
C) Gender is part of a network of social inequalities.
D) Research is political.

Question 20

The terms first world, second world and third world are today considered outdated and ethnocentric. This book instead uses different terminology for the same regions. What does the term global North refer to?

A) nations and regions of the world that are the most economically developed, such as the United States, Japan, and Europe
B) nations and regions of the world that are poorer and less powerful than others, such as Africa and South America.
C) The former Soviet Union and its allies
D) Northern Europe

Question 21

What does the term global South refer to?

A) nations and regions of the world that are the most economically developed, such as the United States, Japan, and Europe
B) nations and regions of the world that are poorer and less powerful than others, such as Africa and South America
C) The former Soviet Union and its allies
D) Southern Europe

Question 22

Raewyn Connell identifies additional types of masculinity beyond the hegemonic or dominant ideal. What is the best definition of subordinated masculinities?

A) Masculinities that are seen as contrary to hegemonic masculinity, such as gay men, "mother's boys," and "sissies"
B) Invisible masculinities, or those that do not reap the rewards of white patriarchy because of lower status in the racial order and economic order
C) Masculinities that are positioned somewhere in between the most dominant and the least dominate masculinities, such as drill sergeants who only have power over the soldiers beneath them
D) Ways in which women adopt traits that are seen as masculine in order to succeed in traditionally male activities

Question 23

What is the best definition of marginalized masculinities?

A) Masculinities that are seen as contrary to hegemonic masculinity, such as gay men, "mother's boys," and "sissies"
B) Invisible masculinities, or those that do not reap the rewards of white patriarchy because of lower status in the racial order and economic order
C) Masculinities that are positioned somewhere in between the most dominant and the least dominate masculinities, such as drill sergeants who only have power over the soldiers beneath them
D) Ways in which women adopt traits that are seen as masculine in order to succeed in traditionally male activities

Question 24

Connell says that men who are not hegemonically masculine but still benefit from and do not disrupt sexism are demonstrating what type of masculinity?

A) Accidental
B) Incidental
C) Complicit
D) Compulsory

Question 25

Feminists like Fraser believe that modern feminism has not done enough to critique transnational capitalism and instead works for reform within wage labor. What solution to this problem does Fraser suggest?

A) Feminists should work to improve the wages and work conditions of women around the globe and not just in their own countries.
B) Feminists should work to improve the wage and work conditions of people of all genders, in their own countries and around the globe.
C) Feminists should return to the principles of Marxist feminism and work to establish a new world order beyond capitalism.
D) None of the above.