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2 Theories of Gender and Power Online Quiz Questions

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20 questions

True or false

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True or false: In Judith Butler’s account, gender performativity means people freely choose a gender role in the same way they might choose a costume.

A
True
B
False

Written response

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What term describes systems of power that privilege men and constrain women?

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Equal rules may leave unequal starting conditions intact, so liberal feminist debates ask what institutions must do to make equal opportunity .

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A company finds that women and men doing comparable work are paid differently. Which response best fits a liberal feminist approach?

A
Require workers to negotiate individually without access to salary information.
B
Introduce transparent salary scales and fair hiring and promotion procedures.
C
Treat unequal pay chiefly as a consequence of gender norms that enable domination.
D
Focus on how international consumer markets shape the pay gap.

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What term does Judith Butler use for the process by which repeated acts and conventions help make gender categories appear fixed and natural?

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A workplace is investigating harassment. Which question best reflects a radical feminist analysis?

A
Check only whether the employee handbook contains a rule against harassment.
B
Assess whether employees have equal access to formal complaint procedures.
C
Examine how authority, gender expectations, and tolerance of coercive behavior help make harassment possible.
D
Compare the number of women and men in the company's consumer markets.

True or false

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True or false: Transnational feminism assumes that women everywhere share the same experience and can be served by one universal model of liberation.

A
True
B
False

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In socialist feminist analysis, refers to making goods and providing paid services, while refers to maintaining people and daily life, including care and childrearing.

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A school form offers only two gender options and asks every student to name a mother and a father. Which interpretation best fits queer theory?

A
The forms should ask only whether each student has equal legal access to education.
B
The forms’ assumptions about gender and family may enforce norms that do not fit everyone.
C
The forms should focus primarily on whether care work is paid or unpaid.
D
The forms are best understood by tracing company decisions in global supply chains.

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A care worker receives low wages. Which two considerations would a socialist feminist analysis emphasize? Select all that apply.

A
Gendered assumptions that care is naturally women’s work.
B
How school dress codes define acceptable femininity.
C
Whether workers freely choose their preferred job titles.
D
Economic arrangements that rely on low-cost care labor.
E
Whether the workplace offers two gender options on its forms.

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An analysis of garment workers’ conditions in one country also examines consumer markets and labor policies elsewhere. Which approach best fits this analysis?

A
Study only the formal hiring rules of the factory where the garments are sewn.
B
Treat the workers’ conditions as unrelated to consumers and policies elsewhere.
C
Connect workers’ conditions to consumer markets, company decisions, and labor policies across borders.
D
Assume the same account of women’s experiences applies in every country.

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A researcher studies a school dress code and how staff enforce it. Which question most closely reflects a poststructuralist feminist approach?

A
Whether each student has the same formal right to wear any item of clothing.
B
How the rules and their everyday enforcement define acceptable masculinity and femininity.
C
How paid caregiving and household labor are divided between employees.
D
How clothing companies distribute work across national borders.

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A researcher combines several theories to study why women are underrepresented in workplace leadership. Which considerations align with the chapter’s guidance for a combined analysis? Select all that apply.

A
How law and institutional rules shape opportunities.
B
How economic arrangements and culture influence one another.
C
How identities and social positions affect whose experience is treated as typical.
D
Whether all women should be treated as having one shared experience, regardless of context.
E
How race, class, sexuality, disability, and national location shape the analysis.

Open ended

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At a workplace, women are underrepresented in leadership, and caregiving responsibilities affect who can take on additional work and advance. Using liberal, radical, and socialist feminism, explain what each approach would investigate.

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A company discovers that its promotion procedures disadvantage women. Which approach would most directly focus on fair procedures and equal access to advancement?

A
Radical feminism
B
Liberal feminism
C
Queer theory
D
Transnational feminism

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A researcher studying workplace harassment examines how authority relations and gender expectations make coercive behavior possible. Which approach best fits this analysis?

A
Whether employees have equal access to salary information
B
Whether unpaid domestic work is valued in the economy
C
How workplace authority and gender expectations may enable harassment
D
How national consumer markets affect overseas production

Choose one

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A care worker receives low wages. Which explanation best reflects a socialist feminist analysis?

A
It considers both gendered expectations about care and economic reliance on low-cost labor.
B
It focuses only on whether an individual care worker was treated unfairly by a supervisor.
C
It treats unpaid caregiving as unrelated to economic organization.
D
It examines only how language defines femininity, without considering labor.

True or false

1 point

True or false: In Judith Butler’s account of gender performativity, repeated acts and conventions help produce the appearance that gender categories are fixed and natural.

A
True
B
False

Written response

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In socialist feminist analysis, what term refers to maintaining people and daily life, including care and childrearing?

Written response

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What term describes systems of power that privilege men and constrain women?