Deck 13: Epilogue-looking Backward, Looking Forward

Question 1

Parents influence their children's perceptions of gender through "voice" when they challenge sexist attitudes and practices in everyday life.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Which of the following is true about taking voice and enacting change?

A) Change comes primarily through the use of direct power - making people do what they would not do on their own.
B) The only people with the ability to engage in agenda setting have formal power, such as newspaper editors and television producers.
C) Taking voice and enacting change are processes.
D) The responsibility for taking voice and enacting change around gender norms rests primarily with men.
E) The responsibility for taking voice and enacting change around gender norms rests primarily with women.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Throughout your Gendered Lives textbook and especially in the final chapter,Julia T.Wood encourages you to become an active and critical member of society.Explain what this means pertinent to individual and social views of gender.

Answer 3

We have not provided essay bullets for the following essays because the answers should attempt to synthesize the entire course.We hope these questions provide helpful examples to provoke such responses.

Question 4

Identify one issue you consider especially important in the ongoing cultural conversation about gender.Explain why you regard this issue as particularly pivotal now and how different resolutions of it might affect social life.

Question 5

Which of the following is true of relationships between individuals and cultural views of gender?

A) Individuals may reproduce cultural views of gender.
B) Individuals may embody cultural views of gender.
C) Individuals may redefine cultural views of gender.
D) Individuals may challenge cultural views of gender.
E) All of the above.

Question 6

Direct power

Question 7

Which of the following statements about difference does your book support?

A) Difference causes strife in organizations.
B) We should seek to minimize differences and emphasize commonalities.
C) Diversity already exists and it can be a tool to enrich relationships and organizations.
D) Diversity is declining in the U.S.
E) The melting pot is the best metaphor to describe difference in the U.S.

Question 8

Gatekeepers such as newspaper editors and television and movie producers are primarily responsible for what gender will mean in the future.

Question 9

Your Gendered Lives textbook states that the forms of influence you have on cultural views of gender include ____.

A) individual choice, policy change, and political movements
B) traitorous identity, teaching children, and empowering others
C) addressing backlash, profeminist movements, and feminist movements
D) direct power, gatekeeping/agenda setting, and voice
E) participating in backlash, personal choice, and agenda setting.

Question 10

Making time to think about issues raised in this book is part of developing your voice.

Question 11

Which of the following are metaphors seeks to recognize diversity in the U.S.without obscuring difference?

A) a melting pot
B) a cake mix
C) a Venn diagram
D) a quilt
E) all of the above

Question 12

"Salad bowl" metaphor

Question 13

Queer performative theory argues that gender is performed; at the same time,gender performances are enacted within a context that defines the possibilities that exist and what gender means.Reflect on an instance of gender performance that you think may broaden gender norms and discuss how this performance works with cultural norms to push gender boundaries.This gender performance may be real (Lady Gaga comes to mind)or hypothetical.

Question 14

Identify three forms of power discussed in the Epilogue of your Gendered Lives textbook.Provide examples of each form of power.

Question 15

Drawing on all of your readings and class discussions,and especially on Chapters 3 and 4,define and discuss the sameness-difference (or sexual equality-sexual difference)debate.What are the positions in this debate and what are the social,legal,and personal implications of the different positions?

Question 16

Discuss how laws and organizational policies that regulate leaves from work influence gender roles in families.In your essay,explain both how laws and policies shape family life and how family life sculpts the kinds of laws and policies that are endorsed in the society.

Question 17

Class discussions and the textbook have emphasized this point: gender is constructed.Explain what it means to claim that gender is constructed.Your response should define gender and describe HOW gender is constructed and how it is changed over time.In addition,your response should discuss what viewing gender as a social construction implies for individual action and agency.Include specific examples of how gender is constructed,reproduced,and changed.

Question 18

Voice

Question 19

Most people agree that women and men are essentially the same and therefore should be treated the same.

Question 20

Gatekeepers

Question 21

The textbook and the class have discussed ways gender norms have changed as a result of feminist and men's movements.Name what you believe to be the three most significant changes that have resulted from these movements and explain why you believe they are significant.

Question 22

What does feminism mean to you? Are you a feminist? Consider the conversations and readings that we have done over the semester.