WST 371 QUIZ 2 EXAMPREP 2026 STUDY
GUIDE WITH SOLVED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
⩥ _________________ is a perspective that focuses on the various
scripts / messages we receive that provide positive reinforcements for
accommodation / compliance and negative consequences for
transgression. This perspective also holds that personal identities, self-
esteem, and social status depend upon meeting the expectations of
others. Answer: Gender socialization
⩥ In the social sciences, scholars tend to acknowledge that while
gender-based differences do exist, those differences are socially
prescribed, and that these differences literally become ______________,
or inscribed upon the body, changing the ways that one's own body, and
all other bodies, are experienced and thought of in everyday life.
Answer: Embodied
⩥ All of the following are examples of potential socializing agents,
EXCEPT: Answer: Genes
⩥ At some point, many children being to internalize gender policing,
becoming involved in __________________ as a way to avoid being
ostracized, targeted, or simply found "wanting." Answer: Self-policing
,⩥ The mothers sampled in the survey in "Normalizing Heterosexuality"
are found to say little to their children about sexuality, but often discuss
romantic love, monogamy, and marriage. Answer: True
⩥ When they speak of "queering" sexuality, queer theorists are talking
about everyone recognizing a gay or lesbian identity as a more evolved
form of sexuality. Answer: False
⩥ ____________ demonstrated through laboratory research that the
clitoris is the seat of all female orgasm, and that sexual problems were
generally NOT caused by neurosis or disorders, but instead resulted
from poor communication and/or conflict. Answer: Masters and Johnson
⩥ Children do not internalize adult taboos about children's sexuality.
Rather than reinscribing these rules for themselves, they allow
themselves complete freedom in terms of their sexual imagination.
Answer: False
⩥ How do mothers "teach" their children heteronormativity when
discussing "falling in love" with their children? Answer: By discussing
falling in love in exclusively heterosexual terms
⩥ What are the implications of mothers not discussing gays and lesbians
with their children? Answer: WRONG ANSWER:
, - Children are less likely to grow up to be homosexual
⩥ Which of the following can NOT be characterized as a "normative and
regulatory discourse of adolescent female sexuality" ? Answer:
Deconstructing the objectification of girls' bodies
⩥ Which of the following statements demonstrates the
interconnectedness of gender and heterosexuality? Answer: All of the
above
⩥ Feminists who take a political stance regarding female sexual pleasure
argue that widespread focus on vaginal-penile pleasure in our society
(i.e. the "g" spot) is reflective of a broader ideology which frames
women's sexuality as highly independent from that of men, expanding
possibilities for female sexual empowerment, exploration, and diversity.
Answer: False
⩥ _____________ theorists question the usefulness of universal, all-
encompassing grand theories to explain the social world, arguing that
there is no "right" way of seeing or describing the world, and that no two
people share the same reality. Answer: Postmodern
⩥ __________ theory suggests that sexuality is best seen as a
transaction or trade, and that relationships are only stable so long as
people feel they are getting a fair deal. Critics of this perspective point
GUIDE WITH SOLVED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
⩥ _________________ is a perspective that focuses on the various
scripts / messages we receive that provide positive reinforcements for
accommodation / compliance and negative consequences for
transgression. This perspective also holds that personal identities, self-
esteem, and social status depend upon meeting the expectations of
others. Answer: Gender socialization
⩥ In the social sciences, scholars tend to acknowledge that while
gender-based differences do exist, those differences are socially
prescribed, and that these differences literally become ______________,
or inscribed upon the body, changing the ways that one's own body, and
all other bodies, are experienced and thought of in everyday life.
Answer: Embodied
⩥ All of the following are examples of potential socializing agents,
EXCEPT: Answer: Genes
⩥ At some point, many children being to internalize gender policing,
becoming involved in __________________ as a way to avoid being
ostracized, targeted, or simply found "wanting." Answer: Self-policing
,⩥ The mothers sampled in the survey in "Normalizing Heterosexuality"
are found to say little to their children about sexuality, but often discuss
romantic love, monogamy, and marriage. Answer: True
⩥ When they speak of "queering" sexuality, queer theorists are talking
about everyone recognizing a gay or lesbian identity as a more evolved
form of sexuality. Answer: False
⩥ ____________ demonstrated through laboratory research that the
clitoris is the seat of all female orgasm, and that sexual problems were
generally NOT caused by neurosis or disorders, but instead resulted
from poor communication and/or conflict. Answer: Masters and Johnson
⩥ Children do not internalize adult taboos about children's sexuality.
Rather than reinscribing these rules for themselves, they allow
themselves complete freedom in terms of their sexual imagination.
Answer: False
⩥ How do mothers "teach" their children heteronormativity when
discussing "falling in love" with their children? Answer: By discussing
falling in love in exclusively heterosexual terms
⩥ What are the implications of mothers not discussing gays and lesbians
with their children? Answer: WRONG ANSWER:
, - Children are less likely to grow up to be homosexual
⩥ Which of the following can NOT be characterized as a "normative and
regulatory discourse of adolescent female sexuality" ? Answer:
Deconstructing the objectification of girls' bodies
⩥ Which of the following statements demonstrates the
interconnectedness of gender and heterosexuality? Answer: All of the
above
⩥ Feminists who take a political stance regarding female sexual pleasure
argue that widespread focus on vaginal-penile pleasure in our society
(i.e. the "g" spot) is reflective of a broader ideology which frames
women's sexuality as highly independent from that of men, expanding
possibilities for female sexual empowerment, exploration, and diversity.
Answer: False
⩥ _____________ theorists question the usefulness of universal, all-
encompassing grand theories to explain the social world, arguing that
there is no "right" way of seeing or describing the world, and that no two
people share the same reality. Answer: Postmodern
⩥ __________ theory suggests that sexuality is best seen as a
transaction or trade, and that relationships are only stable so long as
people feel they are getting a fair deal. Critics of this perspective point
