WGS UNIT 2 QUIZ 2026/2027 | WOMEN'S & GENDER STUDIES STUDY GUIDE,
PRACTICE QUESTIONS, ANSWERS & REVIEW
Assimilationist - ✔✔a person who advocates or participates in racial or cultural integration
What is an example of Assimilation (D.O.B) - ✔✔DOB's founding statement of purpose counseled
members to adjust and adapt to dominant mandates about proper dress and behavior in order to fit in.
They hoped to gradually win acceptance through education. The organization drew to its ranks lesbians
who most wanted to and were most able to "fit in"—white-collar workers, professional and middle-class
women, overwhelmingly white.
What does TERF stand for - ✔✔Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist
Who were the TERFs? - ✔✔Radical Feminist who believe that Trans women were a step back for
women's rights because they perpetuated the idea that gender roles are biologically determined rather
than socially constructed
radical activism - ✔✔taking radical/drastic actions to get congress to pay attention and or change a
certain issue
Prison Industrial Complex - ✔✔the overlapping interests of government and industry that use
surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social and political problems.
Angela Davis - ✔✔Spoke on the Prison Industrial Complex. Shinning a light on the mass incarceration of
colored minorities by attaching race to criminality
Suffrage - ✔✔the right to vote
Eugenics - ✔✔The idea of the "perfect class" and the fear of poverty birthing more poverty. This lead to
the sterilization of many women of color including those from Puerto Rico and poor communities
compulsory heterosexuality - ✔✔the expectation that everyone should be heterosexual. Terms such as
gay, lesbian, trans are all in contrast in negative sanctions to being hetro or "straight" or cis gender
social constructionism - ✔✔explores how individuals and groups make decisions to agree upon a given
social reality
Essentialism - ✔✔the view that living things have an essence inside them that makes them what they
are
Social Constructionist view on Gender - ✔✔Gender is a social category imposed on the sexed body,
media helps convey the idea of traditional binary gender system
Essentialist view on Gender - ✔✔girls should be girls, boys should be boys, people like Lawrence
Summers believe in the essentialist idea and that there are biological differences in men and women
that can account for the lack of women in science and engineering fields
PRACTICE QUESTIONS, ANSWERS & REVIEW
Assimilationist - ✔✔a person who advocates or participates in racial or cultural integration
What is an example of Assimilation (D.O.B) - ✔✔DOB's founding statement of purpose counseled
members to adjust and adapt to dominant mandates about proper dress and behavior in order to fit in.
They hoped to gradually win acceptance through education. The organization drew to its ranks lesbians
who most wanted to and were most able to "fit in"—white-collar workers, professional and middle-class
women, overwhelmingly white.
What does TERF stand for - ✔✔Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist
Who were the TERFs? - ✔✔Radical Feminist who believe that Trans women were a step back for
women's rights because they perpetuated the idea that gender roles are biologically determined rather
than socially constructed
radical activism - ✔✔taking radical/drastic actions to get congress to pay attention and or change a
certain issue
Prison Industrial Complex - ✔✔the overlapping interests of government and industry that use
surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social and political problems.
Angela Davis - ✔✔Spoke on the Prison Industrial Complex. Shinning a light on the mass incarceration of
colored minorities by attaching race to criminality
Suffrage - ✔✔the right to vote
Eugenics - ✔✔The idea of the "perfect class" and the fear of poverty birthing more poverty. This lead to
the sterilization of many women of color including those from Puerto Rico and poor communities
compulsory heterosexuality - ✔✔the expectation that everyone should be heterosexual. Terms such as
gay, lesbian, trans are all in contrast in negative sanctions to being hetro or "straight" or cis gender
social constructionism - ✔✔explores how individuals and groups make decisions to agree upon a given
social reality
Essentialism - ✔✔the view that living things have an essence inside them that makes them what they
are
Social Constructionist view on Gender - ✔✔Gender is a social category imposed on the sexed body,
media helps convey the idea of traditional binary gender system
Essentialist view on Gender - ✔✔girls should be girls, boys should be boys, people like Lawrence
Summers believe in the essentialist idea and that there are biological differences in men and women
that can account for the lack of women in science and engineering fields
