Week Two Study Guide

Week Two Study Guide Pages 59 through 118

_____1. Michael Kimmel views ________________ as a constantly changing

collection of meanings that we construct through our relationship with ourselves, with each other, and with our world. a. femininity c. society b. heterosexuality d. masculinity

_____ 2. According to Kimmel, by the 1830s, the gender ideals of Heroic Artisans and Genteel Patriarchs were shattered by the emergence of what new vision of masculinity? a. Silent Giant c. Business Mogul b. Wise Capitalist d. Marketplace Manhood

_____ 3. According to Michael Kimmel, what form of masculinity sets the standard for

other men within the dominant culture? a. dark, upper-middle-class, late middle-age, alpha males b. tan, upper class, middle-aged, famous males c. white, middle class, early middle-age, heterosexual men d. European, successful, mid-thirties, homosexual males

_____ 4. According to Kimmel, the fear of being perceived as gay, as not a real man, is called: a. hate crimes. c. homophobia. b. macho masculinity. d. bullying.

_____ 5. Tim’m T. West is interested in challenging the ways that black men internalize

identities that they took no part in creating. He calls this: a. “revising the identity.” c. “reversing the roles.” b. “changing the uniqueness.” d. “flipping the script.”

_____ 6. October 16, 1995, was for Tim’m T. West, a day that marked the possibility of reconceptualizing black male experience. To what famous gathering does West refer? a. Montgomery Bus Boycott c. Selma to Montgomery March b. Million Man March d. Freedom Riders

_____ 7. How does Tim’m T. West refer to a gaze that scrutinizes another’s manhood?

a. Screwface c. Mugshot b. Funnyfrown d. Rosterscowl

_____ 8. According to Susan Stryker, the first publication of a short-lived, post-WWII

transgender magazine was called: a. Narcissus. c. Transformation. b. Transsexual. d. Transvestia.

 

 

_____ 9. Susan Stryker is formally classified as an individual with what psychopathology that makes her subject to the social stigma attached to mental illness, and makes her more vulnerable to unwanted medical- psychiatric interventions? [NOTE: Transgender people will no longer be classified as having a mental disorder by the World Health Organization starting on January 1, 2022]. a. Self-Identity Syndrome c. Gender Identity Disorder b. Gender Denial Disorder d. Gender Dysphoria

_____ 10. Because Susan Stryker is __________________, she believes that she is

more likely to experience discrimination in housing, employment, and access to healthcare, and more likely to experience violence. a. ambisexual c. transgendered b. intersexual d. androgynous

_____ 11. Susan Greenbaum writes that charting the __________ rate against other

historical data shows that the current rate is just over 15 percent (which is up from 11 percent in 2000), which is where it has been since 2009. a. opulence c. wealth b. poverty d. affluence

_____ 12. According to Douglas C. Baynton, what prevalent justification for inequality

has rarely been the subject of historical inquiry? a. incapacity c. inability b. ineligibility d. disability

_____ 13. According to Baynton, Dr. Samuel Cartwright, in 1851, _____________ was a condition that caused slaves to run away. This condition was supposedly caused by masters who treated their slaves as equals. a. Trichomoniasis c. Donovanosis b. Drapetomania d. Dysaethesia

_____ 14. Dr. Van Evrie argued in the 1860s, according to Baynton, that all blacks were necessarily inferior to (nearly) all whites. Only _________ might lower a white person in the scale of life to the level of being of a marked race. [9th ed. = p. 97/10th ed. = p. 84] a. disability c. interracial intercourse b. poverty d. criminal conviction

_____ 15. According to Baynton, in 1903, people with what condition were added to the category of those judged insane? a. people with Epilepsy c. people with Dysaethesia b. people with Drapetomania d. people with Dromomania

 

 

_____ 16. Douglas Baynton writes that the Commissioner General of Immigration reported in 1907 that the principal object to be accomplished by the immigration laws was the exclusion of: a. the ethically, spiritually, and mentally deficient. b. the morally, mentally, and physically deficient. c. the decently, emotionally, and bodily deficient. d. the honorably, psychologically, and devoutly deficient.

_____ 17. Baynton writes that while it was certain that immigration restriction rests in good part on a fear of “strangers in the land,” American immigration restriction at the turn of the century was also clearly fueled by a fear of _____________ in the land. a. defectives c. deficients b. flawed individuals d. substandard persons

_____ 18. Jean Baker Miller writes about two types of inequality pertinent for present purposes; temporary inequality and the lesser party is ________ defined as unequal. a. overtly c. politically b. collectively d. socially

_____ 19. According to Jean Baker Miller, we have a great deal of trouble deciding on

how many rights “to allow” to the lesser party. Above all, according to Miller, there is great difficulty in maintaining the conception of the lesser person as a person: a. as an individual having as much fundamental value as higher classes. b. as a being of as much native importance as the greater. c. as a person of as much intrinsic worth as the superior. d. as an entity of as much natural merit as more advanced people.

_____ 20. According to Jean Baker Miller, the myth of subordinates’ inability to fulfill

wider or more valued roles is challenged only when a drastic event disrupts the usual arrangements. What example does Miller use to illustrate this claim? a. “incompetent” women who “manned” the factories in World War II b. “unskilled” Native Americans who were “code talkers” in World War II c. “uneducated” African Americans who bravely fought in the Civil War d. the Tuskegee Airmen, African Americans during World War II