WST 313- FINAL EXAM POSSIBLE SOLVED QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS 2020 DOCS

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WST 313- FINAL EXAM POSSIBLE SOLVED QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS 2020 DOCS • Question 1 0.5 out of 0.5 points According to Armstrong’s research, university policies that are intended to be gen... der-neutral very rarely have gendered effects. • Question 2 0.5 out of 0.5 points In the study “Female Sex Workers and the Social Context of Workplace Violence in Tijuana, Mexico,” findings indicate that regardless of where they decided to work, sex workers tended to avoid direct confrontation with customers. • Question 3 0.5 out of 0.5 points Course materials suggest that which of the following contributes to rapes in fraternities: • Question 4 0 out of 0.5 points What are some of the factors and historically specific conditions that go into decision-making about middle-class sex work? • Question 5 0.5 out of 0.5 points The study “Female Sex Workers and the Social Context of Workplace Violence in Tijuana, Mexico” argues that the risk of violence is part of a larger __________________ that can result in a ‘trade-off’ of harms for sex workers. • Question 6 0.5 out of 0.5 points Which of the following is a reason that the hook-up subculture is particularly common on college campuses? • Question 7 0 out of 0.5 points According to Jessica Fields (2007), an instrumentalist view of sex education indicates • Question 8 0.5 out of 0.5 points In Adina Nack’s study the women living with experience of STDs were completely relieved of their stigma with both therapeutic and preventive disclosure. • Question 9 0.5 out of 0.5 points According to Adina Nack’s article, “Damaged Goods,” despite the fact that 3 out of 4 sexually active adults have HPV and 1 out of 5 have genital herpes, most sociological research on sexual health, stigma, and the self focuses on HIV infection, which effects 1 out of 300 sexually active adults. • Question 10 0.5 out of 0.5 points Jessica Field’s (2007) research on sexuality education shows that lessons about female sexual pleasure violate widely held social tenets about how sexual knowledge has nothing to do with male sexual vulnerability. • Question 11 0.5 out of 0.5 points As we know from our course materials, there are multiple forms of feminism, and feminists often take divergent stances on particular issues. When approaching the issue of prostitution, radical feminists tend to focus on: • Question 12 0.5 out of 0.5 points What are some uneven power differentials that Amanda E. Lewis and Laina Y. Bay-Cheng argue impact the relationships that form in the girls’ mentorship program in "Our 'Ideal Girl'"? • Question 13 0.5 out of 0.5 points Girls’ socialization teaches them to: • Question 14 0.5 out of 0.5 points As described by Jamison Green in "Sex and the Trans Man" (2010), undergoing sex reassignment surgery can alter one's sexuality in many ways, including the types of gendered partners one is attracted to. This may result from the biological changes to your own gender identity that occur during the transition process due to hormone therapy, but it may also be that your sexual expressions will differ depending on who your partner is. Thus, a trans man might think of themselves as a lesbian prior to their transition, and then as a heterosexual male after the transition. However, they might also become attracted to men. This example illustrates how fundamentally interconnected, but complex, gender and sexual identities are. • Question 15 0.5 out of 0.5 points The system of ideas that shape gender roles, norms, and behaviors is referred to as: • Question 16 0.5 out of 0.5 points _______ emerges when heterosexually identified people encounter institutional settings that permit or reward homosexual behavior, according to Jeffery Escoffier's "Gay for Pay" article (2003). • Question 17 0.5 out of 0.5 points ________________ refers to the division between radical (anti-pornography) and sex-radical (sex-positive) feminists which occurred within the women’s liberation movement. • Question 18 0.5 out of 0.5 points According to Vickery’s (2009) analysis of an online message board, girls in relationships do not perpetuate mediated romantic/sexual scripts. • Question 19 0.5 out of 0.5 points Today, more than half of international funding for AIDS prevention comes from the U.S. State Department and relies on the ABC framework (abstinence, being faithful, and condom use). According to Mukherjee (2007), this is problematic because it relies on the idea of personal choice and the agency to carry out those choices. • Question 20 0.5 out of 0.5 points Mukherjee’s (2007) article suggests that • Question 21 0 out of 0.5 points The belief that “good girls” wait for the “right one” (their future husband) is a romantic script that can: • Question 22 0.5 out of 0.5 points The active management of one’s own emotions, as well as one’s efforts to manage the emotions of others, is referred to as ____________ work. • Question 23 0.5 out of 0.5 points According to Heather Hartley (2006) the shift from ‘Strategy I’, securing FDA approval for a woman’s sex drug, to ‘Strategy II’, the off-label prescribing of men’s sex drugs to women, demonstrates: • Question 24 0.5 out of 0.5 points Assessment of which of the following factors impact LGBT students’ decisions about “coming out”, as shown by Melinda Micell's (2005) research? • Question 25 0.5 out of 0.5 points How does FGCS fail to challenge the bounds of normative heterosexuality, according to Braun’s “In Search of (Better) Sexual Pleasure” (2005)? • Question 26 0 out of 0.5 points How is the concept of the "naturalization" of gender differences used and to what ends (in academic work on gender)? • Question 27 0.5 out of 0.5 points Because the majority of their transactions are not as standardized as their counterparts, male and transgender sex workers may have to continually renegotiate the terms of the sexual exchange with their customers. This is said to make sex workers more vulnerable in that they may have to compromise their sexual boundaries in order to complete the exchange. The most common compromises made by these workers include: • Question 28 0.5 out of 0.5 points In many situations, gender________________ can exacerbate, or lead to a greater degree of stigma, than sexual orientation alone. • Question 29 0.5 out of 0.5 points ________________ refers to the common belief that men’s and women’s attitudes, personalities, etc. are different because they were born that way, and that gendered body differences are universal, trans-historical, and permanent. • Question 30 0.5 out of 0.5 points The medical model of sex / sexuality includes the following components: • Question 31 0.5 out of 0.5 points _________________ was regarded as a standard treatment for hysteria, menstrual disorders and other female complaints, for at least the last 2,000 years. • Question 32 0.5 out of 0.5 points According to the conservative view of sex education in Fields’ “Knowing Girls: Gender and Learning in School-based Sexuality Education” (2007): • Question 33 0.5 out of 0.5 points A woman may participate in sexual activities with men but identify as a lesbian. • Question 34 0.5 out of 0.5 points Which of the following is an example of medicalization? • Question 35 0.5 out of 0.5 points How does the Toronto Women’s Bathhouse Committee understand and embrace queer sexuality? • Question 36 0.5 out of 0.5 points According to a study by the American Psychiatric Association, girls who looked at objectifying material were more likely to have low self-esteem, to become depressed, and develop eating disorders, proving that the “toxic sexual culture” discussed in Sexy Inc. has real effects on girls. • Question 37 0.5 out of 0.5 points The New View Campaign, as Hartley argues (2006), as well as films such as “Orgasm, Inc.,” are example of the growing ______________ that seeks to challenge harmful corporate practices, such as the medicalization of women’s sexuality. • Question 38 0.5 out of 0.5 points Why were sex workers in Tijuana reluctant to go to the police when they experienced physical or economic violence at the hands of customers, according to “Female Sex Workers and the Social Context of Workplace Violence in Tijuana, Mexico”? • Question 39 0.5 out of 0.5 points Which of the following canNOT be characterized as a “normative and regulatory discourse of adolescent female sexuality” ? • Question 40 0.5 out of 0.5 points Structural violence means: • Question 41 0.5 out of 0.5 points Many girls undergo changes in physical appearance in order to create the perfect look for prom. As Nichole Zlatunich’s 2009 article “Prom Dreams and Prom Reality” notes, the physical changes many girls undergo in order to create the perfect look for prom are known as “body work.” According to feminist research, girls undergo these physical changes and beauty rituals in order to • Question 42 0.5 out of 0.5 points Which of the following are methods that women used to manage the stigma of having an STD, in Nack’s study? • Question 43 0 out of 0.5 points Many of the women interviewed by Bernstein who took up sex work shortly after graduating from college did so because: • Question 44 0.5 out of 0.5 points The “transgender” label is used as: • Question 45 0.5 out of 0.5 points One’s sexual identity is defined by the sexual acts one participates in. • Question 46 0.5 out of 0.5 points Which of the following is an example of how emphasis on heterosexuality as the “normal” sexual identity may foster an environment of homophobia or gender/sexuality discrimination? • Question 47 0 out of 0.5 points Which of the following describes a common theme that Lisa Diamond observes in displays of heteroflexibility in "I'm Straight, but I Kissed a Girl" (2005)? • Question 48 0.5 out of 0.5 points African Americans have higher rates of HIV than other ethnic groups primarily because: • Question 49 0.5 out of 0.5 points What is the relationship between prostitution and trafficking, according to Leuchtag? • Question 50 0.5 out of 0.5 points Rape is an insignificant factor driving the AIDS epidemic, and this is especially true of political conflict zones. 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