Chapter 9 Practice Quizzes

. Which of the following is NOT a category of feminism?

. Who was among the first to formally distinguish sex from gender in sociological terms, characterizing "sex" as a biological "construction" and "gender" as a social "construction"?

. According to Paul Sargent, which type of masculinity represents the adaptation of masculinities to such issues as race and class?

. Which of the following describes an individual who is attracted to those of all sexes and genders?

. What form of feminism argues that gender is an artificial construct that has been used to assign men and women different roles, rights, and opportunities based on perceived differences in intellect?

. Which of the following characterized women's clerical work in Canada in the twentieth century?

. What is the major contribution of the article "Doing Gender"?

. Which of the following is a term for someone who feels affinity with both the biological sex assigned at birth and the socially constructed sex category of either male or female?

. This term refers to the combination of racism and sexism experienced by black women.

. What is the term used for women in Arab countries who take on a more masculine appearance and dress?

. "Queer theory" believes that male and female genders are binary opposites.

. Race is a persistent factor in the production and reproduction of toxic masculinities.

. According to Beatrice Kachuk, there are four categories of feminist theories: liberal, essentialist, socialist, and postmodernist.

. The terms "gender" and "sex" are interchangeable.

. Certain jobs, as well as college and university programs, continue to be gendered.

. The term intersex applies to anyone born with both "male" and "female" sexual characteristics.

. Gender dysphoria is when there is a disconnect between one's lived gender identity and the sex one was 'assigned' at birth.

. Indigenous people in North America have traditionally had a more complex view of gender variability than the binary view adopted by settler-colonial cultures.

. Other cultures recognize genders beyond male and female such as the fa'a fanine of Samoa who have an established alternative gender category

. Pay equity concerns are central to the position of feminist socialism.

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