What Can Anthropology Teach Us about Sex, Gender, and Sexuality?

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. The term "_______" is preferred by many First Nations people in Canada to designate those who identify with an alternative gender role.

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. Gender can be an important consideration in global concerns because _______.

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. The differences that are the result of patriarchy as well as structured racial and class oppression create a phenomenon called _______.

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. Lancaster's encounter with a Nicaraguan informant who displayed multiple forms of gender identity in dress and mannerisms led him to assert that gender was ________.

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. Sexual attraction to males, females, and transgender males and female is called _______.

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. In the contemporary world of global communication and exchange, anthropologists are finding that ________.

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. Shepherd's work on rank and gender in Eastern Africa shows us that ________.

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. Which of the following findings from Afsaneh Najmabadi's study of gender relations in Iran is not true?

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. The self-identification that embodies the fluidity of gender as a social construct is called ________.

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. The systematic sociocultural structures and practices of inequality - derived from patriarchal institutions - that continue to shape relations between women and men is called _______.

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. Anthropologists have only recently become interested in sex, gender, and sexuality.

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. Melanesian peoples tend to view males and females as androgynous.

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. Feminism showed that women's roles needed to be focused on independently from the roles of men.

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. Men add and remove elements of their masculinities, and these are often culturally structured.

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. Individual agency and gender performativity have underpinned much LGBTQ+ activism and research.

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. Middle Eastern men correspond very closely to commonly perceived views of marriage and love from a Western perspective.

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. Gender binary is not the reflection of the lived and social reality of people.

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. Western assumptions about sexuality translate fairly easily to non-Western contexts.

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. Intersectionality ties issues of sexuality and gender to broader issues of racism, inequality, and structural oppression.

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. Pansexual people are attracted to men and women equally.

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