WGST 200 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Who was the lecturer for "Mars, Venus or Planet Earth: Women & Men in a New Millennium" - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Michael Kimmel
What refutes the following argument?: Men and women are so different that they might as well be from
different planets - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Co-education
Anita Hill - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Came forward about her experience with sexual harassment and
was not taken seriously
- Called a "woman scorned"
Overtime have men changed? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅No, women have grown to expect more from
men and in turn become disappointed with men
Change in Women's Lives - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Women made gender visible
2. Workplace
3. The balance between work and family
4. Sexuality
When was the first women studies course? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1972
Can women have it all? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Not as long as men demand to have it all
Friendship.partnership marriages vs. passion/romance marriages - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The more
egalitarian the marriage, the more it will thrive
Womens sexuality today - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Women today feel entitled to pleasure
Safe sex in relation to men and women - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅For women "safety" is a precondition of
sex, while for men it is a negation of sexiness
, Change in men's lives - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The idea of masculinity has not changed
4 basic rules of manhood - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Do nothing that resembles traditional femininity
2. Make the most money
3. Be a sturdy oak/resemble a statue
4. Be daring and exude an aura of aggression
Licentious - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters
Munificence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the quality or action of being lavishly generous; great generosity
Epithet - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or
something
Consternation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅feelings of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected
Feticide - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅destruction or abortion of a fetus
Erasure - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the removal of all traces of something; obliteration
Effigy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a roughly made model of a particular person, made in order to be
damaged or destroyed as a protest or expression of anger.
Who wrote "The Logic of Misogyny"? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Kate Manne
"The Logic of Misogyny" argues - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅We exist in a gendered economy in which
women are assumed to owe men. The rules are: first, we must give men moral goods - such as sex, care,
and unpaid housework. Second, we must not ask men for the kinds of goods we supply. Finally, women
are not supposed to take masculine coded perks and privileges (the presidency, for instance)
Who was the lecturer for "Mars, Venus or Planet Earth: Women & Men in a New Millennium" - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Michael Kimmel
What refutes the following argument?: Men and women are so different that they might as well be from
different planets - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Co-education
Anita Hill - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Came forward about her experience with sexual harassment and
was not taken seriously
- Called a "woman scorned"
Overtime have men changed? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅No, women have grown to expect more from
men and in turn become disappointed with men
Change in Women's Lives - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Women made gender visible
2. Workplace
3. The balance between work and family
4. Sexuality
When was the first women studies course? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1972
Can women have it all? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Not as long as men demand to have it all
Friendship.partnership marriages vs. passion/romance marriages - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The more
egalitarian the marriage, the more it will thrive
Womens sexuality today - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Women today feel entitled to pleasure
Safe sex in relation to men and women - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅For women "safety" is a precondition of
sex, while for men it is a negation of sexiness
, Change in men's lives - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The idea of masculinity has not changed
4 basic rules of manhood - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Do nothing that resembles traditional femininity
2. Make the most money
3. Be a sturdy oak/resemble a statue
4. Be daring and exude an aura of aggression
Licentious - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters
Munificence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the quality or action of being lavishly generous; great generosity
Epithet - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or
something
Consternation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅feelings of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected
Feticide - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅destruction or abortion of a fetus
Erasure - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the removal of all traces of something; obliteration
Effigy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a roughly made model of a particular person, made in order to be
damaged or destroyed as a protest or expression of anger.
Who wrote "The Logic of Misogyny"? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Kate Manne
"The Logic of Misogyny" argues - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅We exist in a gendered economy in which
women are assumed to owe men. The rules are: first, we must give men moral goods - such as sex, care,
and unpaid housework. Second, we must not ask men for the kinds of goods we supply. Finally, women
are not supposed to take masculine coded perks and privileges (the presidency, for instance)
