WST 313 FINAL Exam with Verified Answers
1. critical thinking the art of analyzing and evaluating
thinking with a view to improving it.
2. double bind It is common in the United States that
women, especially younger women,
are in a bind where neither sexual
activity nor sexual inactivity is all right.
3. social construction The concept that women's contribu-
tions to public life and thought have
been limited not because they have
different capacities or natures but be-
cause they live in different social cir-
cumstances.
4. essentialism asserts that there is a unitary fe-
male culture or voice.
5. gender identity v The internal conviction that one is ei-
ther male or female
6. Kim Crenshaw's Intersectionality The contemporary naming of the un-
derstanding that lives are not shared
by gender alone but instead are multi-
ply constituted by gender, race, class,
sexuality, nationality, age, ability, and
other social experiences, identities,
and phenomena that we live simulta-
neously rather than separately.
7. The following are examples of what dualisms
terms: sex/gender, nature/nurture,
and real/constructed
8. Heteronormativity The view that institutionalized hetero-
sexuality constitutes the standard for
legitimate and expected social and
sexual relations.
9. Alfred Kinsey
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, Sexual behavior on a continuum/Be-
lieved that "normal and abnormal"
and "good and bad" were labels cre-
ated to control sexual diversity, noting
the wide discrepancy between public
standards for sex and actual sexual
behavior.
10. Peggy Orenstein's why young girls have lots of reasons for partici-
women participate in sexual activi- pating: made them feel desired; way
ties to boost social status; way to get out
of uncomfortable situation
11. queer identity as self-expression the word "queer" has been reclaimed
by the lgbtq+ community as a political
identity
12. Katz Normal Sexuals heterosexual, normal, and natural
have a history of changing definitions
13. Katz cult of domesticity idealized view of women & home;
women, self-less caregiver for chil-
dren, refuge for husbands
14. Stryker overlapping transgender is- transgender phenomena is anything
sues that disrupts or denaturalizes norma-
tive gender and which calls our atten-
tion to the processes through which
normativity is produced and atypical-
ity achieves visibility
15. courts and same-sex legalization in june 2015 the U.S. supreme court
legalized same sex marriages
16. beginning history of birth control in by the 1870s, birth control devices
the US were available in US pharmacies
phrase coined by Margaret Sanger in
1913
17. we are afraid of other men.
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1. critical thinking the art of analyzing and evaluating
thinking with a view to improving it.
2. double bind It is common in the United States that
women, especially younger women,
are in a bind where neither sexual
activity nor sexual inactivity is all right.
3. social construction The concept that women's contribu-
tions to public life and thought have
been limited not because they have
different capacities or natures but be-
cause they live in different social cir-
cumstances.
4. essentialism asserts that there is a unitary fe-
male culture or voice.
5. gender identity v The internal conviction that one is ei-
ther male or female
6. Kim Crenshaw's Intersectionality The contemporary naming of the un-
derstanding that lives are not shared
by gender alone but instead are multi-
ply constituted by gender, race, class,
sexuality, nationality, age, ability, and
other social experiences, identities,
and phenomena that we live simulta-
neously rather than separately.
7. The following are examples of what dualisms
terms: sex/gender, nature/nurture,
and real/constructed
8. Heteronormativity The view that institutionalized hetero-
sexuality constitutes the standard for
legitimate and expected social and
sexual relations.
9. Alfred Kinsey
1/8
, Sexual behavior on a continuum/Be-
lieved that "normal and abnormal"
and "good and bad" were labels cre-
ated to control sexual diversity, noting
the wide discrepancy between public
standards for sex and actual sexual
behavior.
10. Peggy Orenstein's why young girls have lots of reasons for partici-
women participate in sexual activi- pating: made them feel desired; way
ties to boost social status; way to get out
of uncomfortable situation
11. queer identity as self-expression the word "queer" has been reclaimed
by the lgbtq+ community as a political
identity
12. Katz Normal Sexuals heterosexual, normal, and natural
have a history of changing definitions
13. Katz cult of domesticity idealized view of women & home;
women, self-less caregiver for chil-
dren, refuge for husbands
14. Stryker overlapping transgender is- transgender phenomena is anything
sues that disrupts or denaturalizes norma-
tive gender and which calls our atten-
tion to the processes through which
normativity is produced and atypical-
ity achieves visibility
15. courts and same-sex legalization in june 2015 the U.S. supreme court
legalized same sex marriages
16. beginning history of birth control in by the 1870s, birth control devices
the US were available in US pharmacies
phrase coined by Margaret Sanger in
1913
17. we are afraid of other men.
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