WSS EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
three tenets of contemporary "Sex-Positive Feminism" - Answer-1. Patriarchy limits
everyone's sexual expression
2. Oppose efforts to control sexuality
3. Source of the problem is gender double-standard → reclaim
Have one standard for everybody (or no standard)
four critiques of Sex-Positive Feminism (given by radical feminists) - Answer-1)Not
aimed at structural change
2)corruption of sex-pos = "raunch culture"
2)Misuse of sex-positivity
Nicki minaj and miley cyrus examples
3)Wing of "liberal feminism" (choice, equality, laws, privilege)
4)Undermines radical feminism by reinforcing white-supremacist, capitalist patriarchy
evaluate Gay with respect to two types of feminism - Answer-does not fit neatly into a
binary categorization of being solely a sex-positive feminist or a critic of sex-positivity.
perspective aligns with the sex-positive feminist belief that individuals should have the
freedom to make choices about their own bodies and sexual lives without judgment or
shame.
has critiqued commercialization of sexuality and the way it can sometimes perpetuate
unrealistic or harmful beauty and body standards
three ways that science has misunderstood or ignored women's sexual pleasure -
Answer--Sex is just for reproduction - religious roots
-sexual frusteration is hysteria
-finding that a majority of women do not orgasm through in and out thrusting and the
lack of knowledge of the clitoris and clitoral stimulation illustrates how women's sexual
pleasure was, and is still, largely ignored.
Define Gagnon and Simon's "Sexual Scripts" (lecture, day 2b). Identify and explain the
three levels. - Answer-We learn to feel, interpret, and act on sexual desire through
social messages
1) Cultural scripts
2)interpersonal scripts
3)intrapsychic scripts
cultural scripts - Answer-what is considered acceptable/taboo in broad culture
interpersonal scripts - Answer-expectations/dynamics within specific relationships.
(negotiation of sexual desires, communication, and consent between individuals)
ANSWERS
three tenets of contemporary "Sex-Positive Feminism" - Answer-1. Patriarchy limits
everyone's sexual expression
2. Oppose efforts to control sexuality
3. Source of the problem is gender double-standard → reclaim
Have one standard for everybody (or no standard)
four critiques of Sex-Positive Feminism (given by radical feminists) - Answer-1)Not
aimed at structural change
2)corruption of sex-pos = "raunch culture"
2)Misuse of sex-positivity
Nicki minaj and miley cyrus examples
3)Wing of "liberal feminism" (choice, equality, laws, privilege)
4)Undermines radical feminism by reinforcing white-supremacist, capitalist patriarchy
evaluate Gay with respect to two types of feminism - Answer-does not fit neatly into a
binary categorization of being solely a sex-positive feminist or a critic of sex-positivity.
perspective aligns with the sex-positive feminist belief that individuals should have the
freedom to make choices about their own bodies and sexual lives without judgment or
shame.
has critiqued commercialization of sexuality and the way it can sometimes perpetuate
unrealistic or harmful beauty and body standards
three ways that science has misunderstood or ignored women's sexual pleasure -
Answer--Sex is just for reproduction - religious roots
-sexual frusteration is hysteria
-finding that a majority of women do not orgasm through in and out thrusting and the
lack of knowledge of the clitoris and clitoral stimulation illustrates how women's sexual
pleasure was, and is still, largely ignored.
Define Gagnon and Simon's "Sexual Scripts" (lecture, day 2b). Identify and explain the
three levels. - Answer-We learn to feel, interpret, and act on sexual desire through
social messages
1) Cultural scripts
2)interpersonal scripts
3)intrapsychic scripts
cultural scripts - Answer-what is considered acceptable/taboo in broad culture
interpersonal scripts - Answer-expectations/dynamics within specific relationships.
(negotiation of sexual desires, communication, and consent between individuals)
