Deck 17: Gender

Question 1

All scholars of gender are feminists.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Heteronormativity is the implicit or explicit privileging of heterosexuality, understood as a sexual-romantic relationship between a man and a woman, as the 'normal' or 'correct' framework for human desire.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Comparative research suggests that Britain's former colonies are more likely to criminalize homosexuality today than the ex-colonies of other powers, indicating that the analysis of which 'cultures' are homophobic is inseparable from an understanding of international patterns of dominance and resistance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Sex refers to the social codes that express masculinity and femininity, while gender refers to biological characteristics (primarily genital and reproductive).

Question 5

Gendered assumptions about which civilians were most likely to be killed resulted in the evacuation by humanitarian agencies of women and children from Srebrenica during the 1992-5 Bosnian war, leaving behind men and teenage boys, some 8000 of whom were slaughtered.

Question 6

What percentage of women are in national parliaments worldwide (according to 2018 data)?

A) 1.56%.
B) 5%.
C) 24%.
D) 28%.

Question 7

In what year was the first UN women's conference?

A) 1919
B) 1943
C) 1961
D) 1975

Question 8

The term that describes how particular groups of women experience simultaneous and cross-cutting oppressions which exceed gender is…

A) The 'double burden'.
B) Intersectionality.
C) Patriarchy.
D) Gender mainstreaming.

Question 9

Masculinity and femininity are ________ concepts.

A) radical
B) relational
C) fixed
D) sexual

Question 10

Who argued that gender is not a synonym for women?

A) Cynthia Enlow
B) Kimberlé Crenshaw
C) Simone de Beauvoir
D) Terrell Carver

Question 11

UN Security Council Resolution 1325…

A) Was passed in 2000.
B) Inaugurated what is now known as the Women, Peace and Security agenda.
C) Raised a cluster of issues including participation in decision-making and conflict resolution, the inclusion of a gender perspective in peacekeeping and humanitarian contexts, and the prevention of violence against women and girls.
D) All of the options given are correct.

Question 12

What is 'neo-slavery'?

A) A critique of feminist policies from a postcolonial perspective.
B) The gendered construction of female maids, who take on onerous chores and have restricted freedoms.
C) An alternative term to describe women's 'double burden'.
D) The unpaid labour that mostly women conduct due to a persistent sexual division of labour .

Question 13

Globalization and trade liberalization have…

A) Empowered women who have entered the formal economy.
B) Made women more vulnerable due the mobility of global investment flows.
C) Had no significant effect on the labour experiences of women.
D) Both empowered women who have entered the formal economy and made women more vulnerable due the mobility of global investment flows.

Question 14

Which of the following is a way in which the idea of the nation-state is gendered?

A) The state is depicted as 'the beautiful soul', an image of virginal womanhood in need of protection from foreign invaders.
B) The body of the strong nation is stereotypically masculine-muscular and heterosexual-and colonialism, occupation, revolution, and national interest are frequently conceptualized through metaphors of manly resistance, feminine submission, and heterosexual virility.
C) The nation appears historically as both Fatherland and Motherland.
D) All of the options given are correct.

Question 15

Which event helped to put women's issues on the global agenda for years to come?

A) Vienna Human Rights Conference (1993).
B) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979).
C) Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (1994).
D) Beijing World Conference on Women (1995).