WGS FINAL 2026/2027 | WOMEN'S & GENDER STUDIES STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS & EXAM REVIEW
The Process by which gender is learned - ANS ✔✔Gender Socialization
The dimension of masculinity associated with machismo relates to which of David and Brannon's dictates
of masculinity - ANS ✔✔Give em Hell
A discussion of the ways gender interacts with other aspects of difference illustrates - ANS
✔✔Intersectionality
Gender is best understood as - ANS ✔✔Performative
According to settles et al, in "through the lens of race," the "cult of true womanhood" involved - ANS
✔✔Modesty, purity, domesticity
Sexual self-schemas are - ANS ✔✔Cognitive generalizations about sexual aspects of the self
The bechdel test - ANS ✔✔Helps measure female representation in media
Author Jessica Valenti (The cult of Virginity" uses, which term to describe a component of social
meanings associated with virginity - ANS ✔✔Ethics of passivity
In her focus on black female sexuality, author Kimberly Springer writes about which of the following
stereotypes - ANS ✔✔Jezebel, sapphire, mammy
The idea that men are not supposed to cry is an example of - ANS ✔✔Gendered norm
Marilyn Monroe modern day advertising, film, and music videos were all used in class discussions and
your text is an example of - ANS ✔✔1. How beauty is socially constructed
2. How beauty changes over time
3. How body image has a greater impact on women's self worth than men's
Seeing ourselves through others' eyes is known as - ANS ✔✔Self-objectification
Which of the following is an example of doing gender - ANS ✔✔1. They way one dresses
2. the way one greets friends
3. the way one sits
According to susan douglas, enlightened sexism - ANS ✔✔1. Oversells women's progress
2. preemptively heads off critique of patriarchy
3. identifies power through women's calculated deployment of sexuality
The idea that movies and other medias are made primarily for and by men is - ANS ✔✔Male Gaze
Women being geared toward care taking roles are an example of - ANS ✔✔Gendered norm
, Which of the following is an example of gender ranking - ANS ✔✔The belief that men make better
leaders than women
PHC uses the work of Sandra Harding to talk about oppression. Which level is best represented by the
idea that women are more emotional/less rational than men - ANS ✔✔Symbolic
Gender identity - ANS ✔✔Concerns how one feels internally about one's own gender
Gender expression - ANS ✔✔The way we present ourselves to the world in terms of gender
The understanding that the experience of gender differs by race, class and other dimensions of
inequality is an example of what concept - ANS ✔✔intersectionality
When a woman has sex with someone because she feels the consequences of not doing so are worse
than those of having sex, this is known as - ANS ✔✔Compliant sex
Which of David Brannon's dictates of masculinity does being working poor specifically problematize -
ANS ✔✔The Big Wheel
Hegemonic gender socialization affects intimacy in relationships in which of the following ways - ANS
✔✔Increases likelihood of heterosexists and homophobic norms in situations where homoerotic
conditions might arise for men.
Sapolsky's artice, testosterone rules, demonstrates that - ANS ✔✔Violence is largely a matter of
socialization
An abusive relationship is best defined as one marked by - ANS ✔✔A pattern of coercive and/or
assaultive behaviors used to gain or maintain power and control
What term for someone whose gender identity matches their gender assignment - ANS ✔✔Cisgender
The notion that gender is a way to organize or lives and is a predictable division of labor is an example of
gender as - ANS ✔✔Institution
Which of the following were identifies as a common codes used in media depicting the female body -
ANS ✔✔Fragmentation, submission, invitation
Jackson Katz notes what development in media coinciding with the feminist movement - ANS
✔✔Women becoming smaller and men becoming larger (physically) in media
The "act like a man/lady" exercise demonstrates that - ANS ✔✔Gender is performative
Gender race and class have which of the following in common - ANS ✔✔1. They are organizing principles
of society
2. they are often thought of in a binary fashion
3. they are intersecting axes of oppression and privilege
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS & EXAM REVIEW
The Process by which gender is learned - ANS ✔✔Gender Socialization
The dimension of masculinity associated with machismo relates to which of David and Brannon's dictates
of masculinity - ANS ✔✔Give em Hell
A discussion of the ways gender interacts with other aspects of difference illustrates - ANS
✔✔Intersectionality
Gender is best understood as - ANS ✔✔Performative
According to settles et al, in "through the lens of race," the "cult of true womanhood" involved - ANS
✔✔Modesty, purity, domesticity
Sexual self-schemas are - ANS ✔✔Cognitive generalizations about sexual aspects of the self
The bechdel test - ANS ✔✔Helps measure female representation in media
Author Jessica Valenti (The cult of Virginity" uses, which term to describe a component of social
meanings associated with virginity - ANS ✔✔Ethics of passivity
In her focus on black female sexuality, author Kimberly Springer writes about which of the following
stereotypes - ANS ✔✔Jezebel, sapphire, mammy
The idea that men are not supposed to cry is an example of - ANS ✔✔Gendered norm
Marilyn Monroe modern day advertising, film, and music videos were all used in class discussions and
your text is an example of - ANS ✔✔1. How beauty is socially constructed
2. How beauty changes over time
3. How body image has a greater impact on women's self worth than men's
Seeing ourselves through others' eyes is known as - ANS ✔✔Self-objectification
Which of the following is an example of doing gender - ANS ✔✔1. They way one dresses
2. the way one greets friends
3. the way one sits
According to susan douglas, enlightened sexism - ANS ✔✔1. Oversells women's progress
2. preemptively heads off critique of patriarchy
3. identifies power through women's calculated deployment of sexuality
The idea that movies and other medias are made primarily for and by men is - ANS ✔✔Male Gaze
Women being geared toward care taking roles are an example of - ANS ✔✔Gendered norm
, Which of the following is an example of gender ranking - ANS ✔✔The belief that men make better
leaders than women
PHC uses the work of Sandra Harding to talk about oppression. Which level is best represented by the
idea that women are more emotional/less rational than men - ANS ✔✔Symbolic
Gender identity - ANS ✔✔Concerns how one feels internally about one's own gender
Gender expression - ANS ✔✔The way we present ourselves to the world in terms of gender
The understanding that the experience of gender differs by race, class and other dimensions of
inequality is an example of what concept - ANS ✔✔intersectionality
When a woman has sex with someone because she feels the consequences of not doing so are worse
than those of having sex, this is known as - ANS ✔✔Compliant sex
Which of David Brannon's dictates of masculinity does being working poor specifically problematize -
ANS ✔✔The Big Wheel
Hegemonic gender socialization affects intimacy in relationships in which of the following ways - ANS
✔✔Increases likelihood of heterosexists and homophobic norms in situations where homoerotic
conditions might arise for men.
Sapolsky's artice, testosterone rules, demonstrates that - ANS ✔✔Violence is largely a matter of
socialization
An abusive relationship is best defined as one marked by - ANS ✔✔A pattern of coercive and/or
assaultive behaviors used to gain or maintain power and control
What term for someone whose gender identity matches their gender assignment - ANS ✔✔Cisgender
The notion that gender is a way to organize or lives and is a predictable division of labor is an example of
gender as - ANS ✔✔Institution
Which of the following were identifies as a common codes used in media depicting the female body -
ANS ✔✔Fragmentation, submission, invitation
Jackson Katz notes what development in media coinciding with the feminist movement - ANS
✔✔Women becoming smaller and men becoming larger (physically) in media
The "act like a man/lady" exercise demonstrates that - ANS ✔✔Gender is performative
Gender race and class have which of the following in common - ANS ✔✔1. They are organizing principles
of society
2. they are often thought of in a binary fashion
3. they are intersecting axes of oppression and privilege
