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generic language
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minimal response cues
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polarized thinking
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speech community
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In what ways does language organize perceptions of gender through stereotyping and polarized perceptions of sex and gender?
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Most heterosexual women now keep their last names rather than taking their husbands names upon marrying.
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Naming typically has little influence in the way we think and deciding what matters to us.
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What does feminism mean to you? Are you a feminist? Consider the conversations and readings that we have done over the semester.
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Which of the following is an example of generic language that would refer to everyone regardless of their gender?
a. congressman
b. mail carrier
c. actress
d. mankind
e. chairman
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The textbook and the class have discussed ways gender norms have changed as a result of feminist and mens 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.
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Which of the following examples shows a way in which a female athlete or politician is most treated like a male athlete or politician would be by the media?
a. Corey Cogdell is identified as the wife of a Bears lineman rather than an Olympic medal winner.
b. Women skiers are complimented for managing the course and their makeup deftly.
c. Hillary Clintons outfits are analyzed and determined to be too dowdy.
d. Elizabeth Warren is criticized for her stance that tax reform should benefit the poor.
e. Katy Ledecky earns a world record in the 400-meter freestyle and told she swims like a man.
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Which of the following phrases would be unusual to use in reference to a man?
a. He balled her.
b. He let her give it to him.
c. Hes a player.
d. He knocked her up.
e. He got what he wanted.
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In what ways is language changed to reflect our changing understandings of ourselves and our world?
a. To reject terms that we find objectionable.
b. To create new terms to define realities we think are important.
c. To shape meanings of our culture.
d. To better define how we see ourselves and the world.
e. All of the above.
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Which of the following is the example of stereotype we typically hold about gender in U.S. society?
a. That women are emotional and dont make reasoned arguments.
b. That assertive women are showing confidence.
c. That certain actions can only be masculine or feminine.
d. That men tend to make emotional appeals to win arguments.
e. That a man who is too assertive will come across as off putting.
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Which of the following terms is one you would not expect to see in the kinds of language typically used to describe women?
a. honey
b. chick
c. stud
d. cow
e. sugar
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What would be a style of communication would expect to see happen in a boys game rather than a girls game?
a. Use communication to show sensitivity to others and relationships.
b. Use communication to include others and bring their ideas into the conversation.
c. Use communication to establish egalitarian relations with others and avoid criticism.
d. Use talk to achieve something, such as solving problems or developing strategies.
e. Use communication to create and maintain relationships.
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Sarah is talking to Matt. He tells her that he is going through a rough time and that his long-term girlfriend recently dumped him to be with someone else. Sarah tells Matt she is sorry to hear it and that she had a boyfriend cheat on her once and it really upset her. Matt feels that Sarah is trying to steer the conversation toward herself. What is Sarah likely trying to do?
a. Give personal, concrete details about herself to cultivate a personal tone.
b. Do maintenance work to help sustain the conversation.
c. Establish equality by matching experiences with Matt.
d. Demonstrate responsiveness by showing she cares what he has to say.
e. Show tentativeness to open the door and allow him to share his opinions.
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A female senator stands before a crowd to talk about the tax code. She spends some time demonstrating her knowledge of policy and forcefully demonstrates that she has a plan to better the lives of her constituents. Afterward, she discovers her speech was not taken well, that most people thought she was too aggressive. What tactic would have likely helped her speech be better received?
a. Bringing personal details into the speech such as talking about specific families and especially children affected by the current policies.
b. Speaking with more tentativeness and hedging her words and phrases a little more.
c. Discussing a topic that is seen as more suitably feminine, such as childcare and family leave.
d. Mentioning her own personal struggles with money and relaying that she is a relatable and likeable person.
e. All of the above
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Topic or question should come from class business. See pages 8-10 of this manual for details on this activity.
True/False
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Dictionaries and national newspapers now have policies requiring inclusive language and writing style manuals caution against male generic language.
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Hurricanes with feminine names are more deadly than those with masculine names.
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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.
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As made clear by the material presented in your textbook, gendered violence is prevalent in the United States and around the world. What are some of the personal and social efforts we can engage in and/or support in an effort to lessen the prevalence of gendered violence?
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Mythopoetic movement
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What is reproductive violence? What are some specific examples of reproductive violence in action?
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Traitorous identity
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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.
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The Good Men Project
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Throughout your Gendered Lives textbook and especially in the final chapter, the text encourages you to become an active and critical member of society. Explain what this means pertinent to individual and social views of gender.
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Mens rights activists
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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.
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Identify the goals and the beliefs of the MVP, the WRC, and Walk a Mile in Her Shoes. Then discuss similarities and differences between the three. Within your answer, discuss criticisms of WRC and Walk a Mile in Her Shoes and how MVPs focus on bystanders encourages personal agency.
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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.
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Describe what is meant by a traitorous identity. Then, either hypothetically or from your own experience, describe a scenario in which someone performs a traitorous identity. Why do you think this behavior is difficult for some people? Why is it important to perform?
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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?
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Mens rights movements argue that a number of contemporary policies and practices are discriminatory toward men; moreover, some mens rights groups argue that feminism is at least partially responsible for the implementation of these practices and policies. Identify one contemporary policy or practice that mens movements have identified as discriminatory and explain whether or not you agree with that classification.
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Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP)
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Football coach Joe Ehrmann, who stresses to his team the value of building relationships, loving one another, and accepting love, is enacting a traitorous identity.
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Intimate partner violence
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Masculinist movements assert that men suffer from discrimination and that men need to reclaim their rightful status as men.
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Define gendered violence, and discuss the ways in which society normalizes gendered violence. Your essay should identify three specific social foundations or institutions that allow or encourage both women and men to regard certain kinds of gendered violence as normal or acceptable. Include concrete examples.
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When men observe sexist or violent behavior aimed at women and do not intervene, they are enacting bystander behavior.
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Define sexual harassment. Then, identify and evaluate the two different legal forms of sexual harassment and standards for determining whether it occurred.
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NOMAS, MVP, and mythopoetics all agree that the current construction of masculinity can be harmful.
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Define informed consent. Do you think this is an appropriate definition of informed consent? Why or why not?
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Mens rights movements typically represent the rights of all men, which includes standing up for the rights of gay men.
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What is rape culture? How does it affect victims of sexual assault? What should be done to eradicate this problem in our culture?
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Profeminists endeavor to cultivate emotions that they feel have been suppressed by masculine socialization.
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Sexual assault
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Mythopoetic men argue that modern men experience emotional emptiness related to yearning to be close to their fathers.
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Sexual harassment
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Promise Keepers see reconnecting with Gods commandments as the path for men to regain wholeness.
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Quid pro quo harassment
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Which movement asked men to rededicate themselves to their families, spiritual transformation, and political action?
a. Million Man March
b. Mythopoetic Men
c. Free Men
d. White Ribbon Campaign
e. Profeminists
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Pornography
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movements are those who work to support feminist movements in addition to working to change the way masculinity is constructed in the United States.
A. Free Men
B. Masculinist
C. Mens equality
D. Profeminist
E. No mens movements support feminism.
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Blaming the victim
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Which of the following is/are true of the MVP?
A. MVP was started after the Montreal Massacre in which 14 women were killed.
B. MVP says that if men make a personal commitment to never commit violence, violence will eventually stop.
C. MVP says that men are socialized to be violent and aggressive.
D. They are a masculinist group.
E. All of the above.
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Rape culture
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Femicide
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Free Men believe that men are discriminated against, although not as much as women are.
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Gender intimidation
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Victims of battering would be safer if they left abusive relationships.
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According to the principles of , men who condone, encourage, or ignore violence are just as guilty as those who act violently.
A. NOMAS
B. Fathers 4 Justice
C. White Ribbon Campaign
D. Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP)
E. Mythopoetic men
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Hostile environment harassment
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Which of the following movements is a multifaceted effort to stimulate a national conversation about what it means to be a good man today?
A. The Promise Keepers
B. Mythopoetic men
C. NOMAS
D. The Good Men Project
E. Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP)
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Infibulation
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Which of the following is true of NOMAS?
A. It believes more colleges and universities should adopt mens studies.
B. It celebrates traditionally masculine values of courage and ambition.
C. It condemns traditionally masculine values of aggression and emotional insensitivity.
D. It attempts to help men understand how their emotional development has been hindered by our cultures view of masculinity.
E. All of the above.
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Informed consent ANS: Agreement given by:
someone of legal age,
who has normal mental abilities,
who is not being coerced,
and whose judgment is not impaired by circumstances (e.g., alcohol and drug use)
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Jake is at a party with a large group of men when his friend Dan makes a sexist joke about the physical appearance of a woman they all know. Instead of laughing, Jake tells Dan that he thinks the joke is inappropriate and that hed prefer that Dan did not talk about women that way in front of him. What type of identity has Jake performed in this scenario?
A. An offensive identity
B. A mens rights identity
C. A traitorous identity
D. A Free Men identity
E. None of the above
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A hostile environment grows out of a pattern of behavior and is not determined by a single action.
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This mens movement professes that most men are not violent and that men should work together to change the few who are violent.
A. White Ribbon Campaign
B. Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP)
C. NOMAS
D. Free Men
E. None of the above
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Genital mutilation does not occur in the United States.
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Which of the following statements is true of mens rights activists?
A. They aim to educate men about socialization that links masculinity to violence and aggression to motivate them to reject violence.
B. They voice public support for womens rights and mens personal development.
C. They engage in interpersonal persuasion to convince friends and coworkers to alter discriminatory attitudes and practices.
D. They believe that violence against women is not just a womens issue.
E. They aim to restore the traditional roles of men and women, and with that the privileges that men historically enjoyed.
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Physical, verbal, emotional, sexual, and visual brutality that is inflicted disproportionately or exclusively on members of one sex is best defined as
A. sexual slavery.
B. a rape script.
C. intimate partner violence.
D. gender intimidation.
E. gendered violence.
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Some third-wave feminists embrace sexiness and femininity as part of being empowered. What is your position on this issue? Defend your stance.
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Some second-wave feminists have criticized the younger generation of third-wave feminists for being too focused on consumerism and lacking a clear central message. Based on the characteristics of the movement described in your textbook, do you think these criticisms are valid? Why or why not? What are the differing motivations behind the two waves that could account for this criticism?
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Lewd remarks made in public spaces, while annoying, are not considered gendered violence.
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Describe separatism and why it is limited in its power as a feminist movement.
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Intimate partner violence typically follows a cyclical pattern.