Chapter 1:
1) The three themes of class. Understand, explain and apply
2) What's androcentrism: explain and provide examples
3) What does male as norm mean: explain and provide examples
4) What is a gender dichotomy? Explain and provide examples
5) What's the difference between morality and causal analysis? Explain
and provide examples
6) What is the sociological imagination (How do personal issues
become public ones?)
7) How has Women's studies attempted to change the notion of
gender.
Further, how has the study of gender changed over time
(five
phases)
8) What's a faulty generalization? Matrix of
domination?
Chapter 2: Social Construction of Identity
1) Biological theories: Understand how cause/effect,
non-spuriousness,
determinism and reductionism effect biological theories explaining
gender
identity.
2) Sociological theories
a) Socialization
b) Symbolic Interaction
c) Doing Gender
d) Identification theory
e) Cognitive Developmental theory
3) What are some problems with each theory
4) What's the importance of institutions in creating identity and how do roles fit into institutions?
5) How do selective perception and hegemony problematically inform our understanding of how identity is informed
If you understand all the theories you should be able to
understand
the differences and similarities of the theories as well.
Chapter 4: Sexuality
1) How is sexuality relevant to our lives?
2) How is sexuality socially and historically constructed?
3) How is sexuality affected by race, class and gender
4) What is phallocentric thinking?
5) How is sexuality controlled legally and normatively?
6) How is defining sexuality relevant to identity, behavior, preference
and orientation?
7) What is compulsory heterosexuality? homophobia?
8) How does our penchant for dichotomies affect sexuality?
9) How is menstruation and menopaus affected socially?
10) What issues about sexuality and the workplace are relevant?
pressure to be: ?
Chapter 12
1) What is theory? Assumptions?
2) Explain the historical period that gave rise to classical
liberal theory. What is the period of Enlightenment.
3) What are the assumptions of classical liberal theory?
How did the original classical liberals contradict their own
philosophy?
4) How are the assumptions of classical liberals problematic?
5) How has classical liberal theory dominated contemporary society?
Explain in detail.
6) How have feminists adapted classical liberal theory to their own
needs?
7) What policies for social change are logically consistent with
classical
liberal theory?
8) How is the state justified under classical liberal theory?
9) How is discrimination possible according to classical liberal
theory?
10) What did Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Martineau and Harriet
Taylor Mill contribute to classical liberal theory
11) Why is meritocracy difficult to attain?
12) What are the two big dichotomies of classical liberal theory
and how are they problematic?
Chapter 13
1) What is Feminism?
2) What are the two main waves of feminist movements? What
were their goals? Strategies?
3) Marxist Feminism: What is class? What is
Marx's concept of human nature? How does this differ from
Classical
Liberals? Understand species-being, what Marx would
say
about competition, what would he say about equality?
What does the state do? What is hegemony? False
consciousness?
What is historical materialism? Dialectic? Also, what
would marx argue causes sexist oppression? WHAT's HIS
SOLUTION?
4) Radical Feminism: What is sex/gender system? What
is patriarchy? Explain how women are controlled. How is
motherhood
important here? Why can't the state be used to end
patriarchy?
What solutions are necessary?
5) Capitalist Patriarchy? Why should we combine the two
above theories? When we do it, how does the theory look?
6) What three structural mechanims must be in place to create
an egalitarian society?
7) Mutli-racial feminism: What structural and
individual
level aspects of society must change in order to reduce racism?
What
happens if we leave out race in our understanding of oppression?
What does agency have to do with understanding racism? Social
policies
that emerge from this theory?
8) Post-Modernists: How is power conceived?
How is meaning constructed? Why is deconstruction
important?
9) What is Queer Theory?
Chapter 3:
Gender and Culture
1) What is popular culture?
2) Understand content analysis and how it is used.
3) Know terms like symoblic annhilaition, false
consciousness
and be able to apply them
4) What does an examination of our language tell us about gender?
5) Reflection hypothesis, Role-learning theory,
Organizational
theories, Marxist theory and Post-Modernist theory all provide
various
lenses for looking at the media. Understand these
6) How might we use "sexism as an ideology" to understand the
issue of name-changing. Rational act or irrational?
Explain
why the emotions?
7) Your author argues that the social context really matters
when it comes to determining of language. What's this mean?
UNDERSTAND THE MAIN THEMES OF THE FILMS and information that
supports
those themes:
Chapter 7
1)What does it mean to say that health is socially constructed.
2) How do issues of race, class and gender affect issues of health?
(LOOK IN BOOK)
3) What does it mean to say that "male is norm" in health?
4) How are white middle-class women the norm with regard to
health?
especially in issues of birth control?
5) Understand how men are supposed to be perceived as
"virile."
and how that affects their access to health care
6) Women are supposed to be passive wombs? What's this
mean?
How does protective legislation, discussions of reproduction and sex use this assumption of women as either wombs or passive or both.
7) How is body image linked to health? Understand issues
associated
with anorexia and bulemia.
8) Characteristics of women who drink, smoke and do drugs.
Women with AIDS? Who are they?
9) As your book discusses, what are the politics of birth
control
and abortion.
10) The problem with nurses is not so much salary anymore, but
what?
11) In class we spent much time discussing childbirth. Understand the history of midwives. How are midwives and doctors distinct? How is pregnancy, labor and childbirth conceived differently between the two groups. What types of interventions can occur and how are they problematic? How is the U.S. unique from other industrialized countries.
Chapter 10
What is power? What is legitimate authority?
The government does politics differently than do citizens.
Explain
How is our government patriarchal?
The state is supposed to be neutral. Often times it is far from
neutral. Explain how rape, divorce are biased. What is a
"reasonable"
person?
Understand the two theories of the state: plurarlism versus power elite.
Laws can only do so much to create change. WHY?
If women entered politics, would things change? Explain
Why don't women participate in government as much as men?
What are the two arguments for women and the military?
(ie.
feminst arguments against the military)
What issues are relevant for gays and lesbians in the military?
As we already discussed: Know the three waves of feminism!
Chapter 5
1) What are the three historical economic systems that affect
gender: family-based, family-wage; family-consumer
2) How have the structure and ideology of work in society today and
historically been organized to subjugate women? How has race and class
affected this?
3) WHAT IS WORK? how has our conception of work been affected by patriarchy and capitalism?
4) How has the globalization of women affected women here and abroad?
5) What are the biggest issues for women in paid work?
Pay gap:
Understand the causes of pay gap
human capital
job sex segregation
dual labor market theory
Discrimination
job title disc
tokenism
networking
glass ceiling
workplace cultures
sexual harassment
6) Femiinization and poverty:
How are women affected?
Understand how are assumptions of welfare stem from our own biases and prejudices towards unpaid work:
what are the assumptions behind valuing corporate welfare over
personal
welfare? How has hegemony convinced us that these
assumptions
are true even though rationally, they are not?
EXAMPLE TEST QUESTIONS:
Why is it problematic to say men and women are opposites?
a) Women and men are not so much “opposites” as “antagonists.”
b) In doing so we ignore and deny the “atypical” behaviors of men and
women
c) It glosses over the fact that women are much more likely to engage
in beauty rituals and men are more likely to engage in hobby rituals.
d) Because the more accurate word to describe masculinity and
femininity is either matrifocal or matrilineal.
Which one of these is an analytical statement?
a) It is wrong to oppress women
b) men cry less than women
c) men should treat women with equal respect
d) women need to start taking responsibility for their own choices
Which one of these is an example of cultural hegemony:
a) sociological imagination
b) biological reductionism
c) a man who allows his child to play with dolls.
d) a woman who questions why ads are used to sell products
Answer Key: 2/17/05
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