Question 1

According to Rebecca Barrett-Fox, what is complementarianism?

Accepted Answer

It is defined as "the idea that God created everyone with a sex that aligns with a masculine or feminine gender and that God values and loves men and women equally but has created them for different roles."

Question 2

"_______ has been a place where women lead before they can do so in other domains, such as politics or the workplace."

Accepted Answer

Religion has been a place where women have often been leaders, even in societies where they have been denied leadership roles in other areas.

Question 3

What does Rebecca Barret-Fox say men and women need for a happy Quiverfull marriage?

Accepted Answer

The text reads, "In this model, men need respect and women need love, and only when they give each other what they require will marriage be happy (Eggerichs 5)."

Question 4

What is the driving theme of neoliberalism, according to Jessica E. Birch?

Accepted Answer

The article states, "Neoliberalism is an ideology-a set of narratives that shape society-that operates "to reestablish the conditions for capital accumulation and to restore the power of economic elites" (Harvey 19). One of the ways it does this is by demanding individualism, telling us that society is composed of a set of individuals, each of whom has an obligation only to herself, rather than community members who have obligations to care for each other."

Question 5

"And I realize something: I know what kind of person my grandmother was. She was unbought and unbossed, her whole life. She helped make a world in which I don't always have to be a hard woman, taught me how to survive when I do have to be. She was a woman whose pride in _______ work was a form of [blank.]"

Accepted Answer

The correct answer is B) care, love. This choice fits the context of the quote, emphasizing the grandmother's nurturing and supportive role, which is often associated with care and love.

Question 6

What term does Jessica Birch use to describe when a woman internalizes oppression so thoroughly that she forgets who she is?

Accepted Answer

The article states, "[c]ondification is another word for women who internalize oppression so hard they lose everything, including their knowledge of who they are, where they've been, and how they got there."

Question 7

How does the author describe the roles of migrant men in their familied in comparison to the common cultural narrative about these men?

Accepted Answer

The main point of the article is that narratives about migrant men are untrue and that these men often subvert the idea that they are not caregivers.

Question 8

What organization does the author examine in this reading?

Accepted Answer

The article studies Families for Freedom (FFF).

Question 9

Simply put, FFF's narratives of good fathering are not just a strategic choice to cast these men as respectable, domesticated, and deserving of public sympathy. They confront us with the ways in which deportation becomes an instrument through which the state continues to define "the _______."

Accepted Answer

The correct answer is "family" because the passage discusses how deportation impacts the perception and definition of family units, especially in the context of fatherhood and its role within the family structure.

Question 10

Nair pushes against marriage. Fill in the blank in her argument: "So that's my fundamental critique of gay marriage. It's not so much that it represents a cultural or social assimilation but that it is a movement that has helped become a vital cog for _______ and the privatization of resources."

Accepted Answer

Nair's critique of gay marriage is centered on its role in promoting neoliberalism and the privatization of resources, highlighting concerns about economic and social policies rather than purely political or cultural assimilation.

Question 11

Jacobsen plans to remarry. Fill in the blanks of their argument about marriage: "I do believe in things where it must be dismantled in order to change but also believe that some things have to be changed by _______ them. I don't think that I am anyone that does uphold a lot of like, I don't uphold patriarchy."

Accepted Answer

Jacobsen's argument suggests a belief in active participation or engagement as a means of change, which aligns with the concept of "doing" something rather than merely rejecting or dispelling it. This approach implies a hands-on method to change from within, consistent with the context of remarrying and addressing issues like patriarchy through personal action.

Question 12

Which statement best summarizes the interview transcript?

Accepted Answer

Both guests show that family values means different things to different people and there is no one way to be a family.

Question 13

Unionization has what effect on the gender wage gap?

Accepted Answer

The articles states, "The result is that unionization decreases the gender wage gap (Cho and Cho 2011). Thus, unionizing workers in typically female jobs and industries can reduce the gender wage gap."

Question 14

What can be done to end the gender wage gap in the United States?

Accepted Answer

All three are sections of the essay and are offered as solutions to end the gender wage gap.

Question 15

"Thus, _______-representation in lower-paid jobs and _______-representation in higher-paid ones continue to reduce women's pay."

Accepted Answer

"Under-representation" means that women are not represented in a particular group or category in proportion to their numbers in the population. "Over-representation" means that women are represented in a particular group or category in greater proportion to their numbers in the population. In this case, the passage is talking about the under-representation of women in lower-paid jobs and the over-representation of women in higher-paid jobs.

Question 16

What issue do "gender transgressive people" not face?

Accepted Answer

"Gender transgressive people" face all of these issues.

Question 17

While Dean Spade says that there has been much discussion of the psychological harm caused by a binary understanding of gender, what aspect has been neglected?

Accepted Answer

The basis of this article is summarized in this paragraph: "Unfortunately, this analysis has not yet been applied to examine how gender regulation of the poor applies to those who face some of the most dire consequences of a coercive binary gendered economy, those who transgress the basic principles of binary gender. Much feminist analysis of binary gender transgression has focused on the pathologizing medical discourses that have defined popular understandings of gender role distress to reinscribe meaning into rigid notions of "male" and "female." However, as transgender liberation movements proliferate, and feminist analysis of gender transgression becomes more nuanced and sophisticated, it is essential that we bring along the feminist analysis of gender regulation in work and public assistance systems in order to account for the extreme economic consequences that gender-transgressive people face because of our gender identities and expressions."

Question 18

"Now is the time to recognize that no project of gender and sexual self-determination will be meaningful if it fails to engage resistance to an inherently violent and hierarchical _______ economic system that grounds its control over workers and the poor in oppressive understandings of race, sex, gender, ability, and nationality."

Accepted Answer

The correct answer is "Capitalist" because the statement critiques an economic system that exerts control over workers and the poor through oppressive understandings, which aligns with criticisms often directed at capitalism regarding its hierarchical nature and the way it intersects with various forms of oppression.

Question 19

"More specifically, Lean In reveals the ways in which the husk of liberalism is being mobilized to spawn a neoliberal feminism, as well as a new feminist (and not simply a female) subject. Individuated in the extreme, this subject is feminist in the sense that she is distinctly aware of current inequalities between men and women. This same subject is, however, simultaneously neoliberal, not only because she disavows the social, cultural and economic forces producing this inequality, but also because she accepts full responsibility for her own well-being and self-care, which is increasingly predicated on crafting a felicitous work-family balance based on a cost-benefit calculus. The neoliberal feminist subject is thus mobilized to convert continued gender inequality from a _______ problem into an _______ affair."

Accepted Answer

The passage describes the transformation of gender inequality from a broad, systemic issue ("structural") into a matter of personal responsibility and individual action ("individual"), aligning with the characteristics of neoliberal feminism.

Question 20

The successes of women such as Slaughter and Sandberg come with unacknowledged aid and at the expense of those who are:

Accepted Answer

The article ends, "Thus, while underscoring these contradictions and incoherencies, we would also do well to point out that the personal well-being of women like Sandberg and Slaughter, who likely constitute less than 0.1% of the general population, is increasingly coming at the expense of the 99.9%, namely, the overwhelming majority of poor, working class, and middle-class women in the USA."

Quiz 3: Sociopolitical Issues in Womens, Gender and Sexuality Studies