Deck 5: Intersections

Question 1

If gender is just one part of who we are, why isn't it crowded out by all the other things about us that are meaningful and consequential?

A) It isn't. Gender is the most important part of our identities so it remains most salient in all situations.
B) Because gender intersects with our other socially salient identities, inflecting them all with gendered meanings.
C) We are able to make personal choices as adults to emphasize or deemphasize gender identity.
D) Feminists have made gender more salient by embracing intersectionality.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What is one way in which some Asian American men and women resist the stereotypes associating them with femininity?

A) They get cosmetic surgery to look more "white."
B) They wear khakis and button-down shirts.
C) They whistle Vivaldi and Beethoven as they walk down the street.
D) They try to be socially outgoing.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What is one gender strategy that is available to many attractive middle-class white women that is not as easily available to black and Asian women, based largely on how they look?

A) Wonderful Wife and Mother
B) All-American Girl
C) Supermom
D) Jock

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What conditions make it more likely that a woman will adopt a Supermom gender strategy?

A) She is married to a man with a high-paying job and loses her job.
B) She is the CEO of a tech company and her husband is a stay-at-home dad.
C) She is a single mother and works as a teacher at the local school.
D) She is an award-winning doctor and has a full-time nanny.

Question 5

What term describes the set of actions we take to manage opportunities and constraints and affirm a valued gender identity in a specific way?

A) gender identity
B) sex positive action
C) intersectionality
D) gender strategy

Question 6

Your textbook authors argue that we are complicated individuals with unique and multi-layered identities. What term describes this perspective?

A) gender binary
B) intersectionality
C) gender identity
D) social construction

Question 7

In the United States, Asian American men became stereotyped as less masculine than white men as a result of what historical fact?

A) In the 1800s, Chinese men lived together without wives and performed domestic tasks for themselves.
B) In the 1870s and 1880s, Chinese and Japanese men were brought to the United States to work as sex slaves.
C) Even in the 1900s,Asian American men were academic overachievers, and school is a feminized activity.
D) From the 1880s to 1900s, Asian men were denied the right to vote, making them dependents like women.

Question 8

What conditions make it more likely that a man will adopt a Breadwinner gender strategy?

A) He has children and realizes he loves parenting.
B) He is promoted to partner at a law firm and his wife loses her job.
C) He works at a dead-end job and is married to a Career Woman.
D) He loses his factory job and retrains to work at the local hospital as a nurse.

Question 9

Why are there a lot more Supermoms than Superdads and fewer female Breadwinners than male Breadwinners?

A) Men who take care of children and do housework are praised.
B) Men who like cooking, cleaning, and raising children do this less well than women.
C) Men graduate from college in considerably higher numbers, thus setting them up to be higher wage earners.
D) Women are still held disproportionately responsible for housework and childcare.

Question 10

What is one particular cost black women who employ the Girly Girl gender strategy may face?

A) They may be seen as feminine and beautiful and thus threatening to white women.
B) They may be seen as unattractive, unprofessional, or too manly.
C) They may be seen as sellouts and feel like they are performing whiteness.
D) They may be seen as too black and accused of rejecting mainstream values.

Question 11

Immigrant couples often abandon Breadwinner/Wonderful Wife and Mother strategies in favor of economic interdependence when they arrive in the United States. This is partially due to their experience of

A) racism.
B) compulsory heterosexuality.
C) downward mobility.
D) gender deviance.

Question 12

According to the authors of your textbook, what does a "gaydar" really detect?

A) presence or absence of sexual desire for another person
B) fear and hatred of sexual minorities
C) people who break gender rules
D) heterosexual people

Question 13

What is one reason why some lesbians and gay men choose not to conform to gender rules?

A) It makes same-sex sexual orientation invisible.
B) All gay men and lesbians feel most comfortable when deviating from gender rules.
C) It gives some lesbians and gay men a sense of community.
D) It upsets parents and employers and other people with social power.

Question 14

Which of the following is an example of a Gentle Black Man strategy?

A) playing video games with friends and earning average grades
B) wearing khakis and button-down shirts to the grocery store
C) excelling in sports and earning high grades
D) playing World of Warcraft and wearing black clothes

Question 15

What conditions make it more likely that a woman will adopt a Wonderful Wife and Mother gender strategy?

A) She faces limited job opportunities and is married to a man with a high-paying job.
B) She faces limited job prospects and is recently divorced.
C) She is promoted to partner at a law firm and her husband works irregularly as a plumber.
C) She is promoted to partner at a law firm and her husband is promoted to CEO at a marketing firm.

Question 16

Ageism is a form of prejudice that

A) equates the signs of aging with decreased social value.
B) discriminates against people of Aegean origin.
C) places increased emphasis on men's appearance as they get older.
D) discriminates against heterosexual couples in which the woman is older than the man but not the reverse.

Question 17

What is one strategy that some gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals adopt to resist homophobia?

A) practicing gender conformity
B) approving gender deviance
C) accepting compulsory heterosexuality
D) accepting compulsory homosexuality

Question 18

Compulsory heterosexuality can be defined as

A) the fear and hatred of sexual minorities.
B) a rule that all men be attracted to women and all women be attracted to men.
C) the verses in which the Bible condemns homosexuality.
D) gender conformity that is binary.

Question 19

What is one example of how gendered rules apply differently to men and women as they age?

A) Women face ageism everywhere, while men do not.
B) Men have two options for looking attractive: young boy or adult man, while women have only one option: young girl.
C) Women are pushed to age gracefully and rewarded more than men if they do.
D) Older women who become Career Women are exempt from being judged on attractiveness, while older Gentlemen are still assessed for how good-looking they are.

Question 20

What is one cost that white middle-class women and men risk by performing a gender strategy that is stereotyped as "suitable"?

A) being perceived as overachievers and bossy
B) being perceived as excessively masculine or feminine
C) being perceived as not masculine or feminine enough
D) being perceived as boring, unexciting, and plain

Question 21

If a lesbian woman who moved to France from the United States conformed to French expectations, she would

A) accentuate her lesbian identity more.
B) accentuate her lesbian identity less.
C) emphasize her race-gender intersectionality because it is more acceptable to be an immigrant than queer in France.
D) adopt a Butch lesbian identity and emphasize her masculinity

Question 22

First, describe in general the similarities and differences in how ageism impacts men and women and the strategies they have for doing gender. Are the strategies that are open to them differently available to women and men of different race or class statuses? To women and men living in different kinds of urban/rural locations or family structures? Pick one intersectional situation to put in the center and compare the strategies of older people with at least three different life situations to this "reference person."

Question 23

How do class and ability intersect in the gendered strategies men adopt?

A) Wealthy, disabled men are able to pay for their independence by hiring help.
B) Poor, able-bodied men are able to adopt the Breadwinner strategy.
C) Wealthy, able-bodied men are able to adopt any gender strategy they like.
D) Working-class, disabled men who adopt the Blue-Collar Guy strategy are especially successful.

Question 24

In your own words, describe each of the following gender strategies: Career Woman, Wonderful Wife and Mother, Supermom, Breadwinner, Superdad, and Blue-Collar Guy. For each strategy explain (a) what conditions and opportunities make it more likely that women or men will choose one of these strategies over the others, and (b) why choosing each strategy might be harmful for some women or men ?

Question 25

Describe at least three reasons gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals might adopt an All but Heterosexual gender strategy. Describe some of the potential constraints and opportunities gay African American men, rural lesbians, and French gays and lesbians might face in adopting the All but Heterosexual strategy.

Question 26

What kinds of challenges do women and men with physical disabilities face in designing strategies with which to do gender? Are the strategies that are open to them differently available to women and men? To women and men of different race or class statuses? To women and men living in different kinds of urban/rural locations or family structures? Pick one intersectional situation to put in the center and compare the strategies of disabled people with at least three different life situations to this "reference person."

Question 27

Compare and contrast the gender stereotypes for any three of the following six U.S. groups: black women, black men, Asian women, Asian men, white women, and white men. Explain how these stereotypes shape the range of choices of gender strategies for members of each of these groups.