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Kaleidoscope of Gender Prisms Patterns and Possibilities 5th Edition Spade Test Bank
Kaleidoscope of Gender Prisms Patterns and Possibilities 5th Edition Spade Test Bank
True/False
2. Gender patterns weave themselves into our bodies, sexualities, and emotions.
*a. True
b. False
Page Number: 299
4. The dichotomy between heterosexuality and homosexuality was created in the nineteenth
century.
*a. True
b. False
Page Number: 303
5. Male and female emotions, sexualities, and bodies are expected to be exactly the same and
indistinguishable from one another in Western culture.
a. True
*b. False
Page Number: 302
6. Men and women are equally likely to experience employment discrimination in hiring, wages,
and unemployment if they are fat.
a. True
*b. False
Page Number: 301
7. Research shows that many gay men and lesbians are gender conformists in their expression of
sexuality.
*a. True
b. False
Page Number: 303
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The Kaleidoscope of Gender, Fifth Edition
Joan Z. Spade and Catherine G. Valentine
Instructor Resources - Testbank
8. When women express emotion according to cultural rules, they run the risk of being labeled
hypersensitive, temperamental, and irrational.
*a. True
b. False
Page Number: 304
Multiple Choice
9. At extreme levels girls and women turn their own bodies into _________ to which they devote
extraordinary amounts of time and money.
*a. fetish objects
b. objects of desire
c. subjective selves
d. investment properties
Page Number: 301
10. Symbolic violence against the Western female body is exemplified by all of the following
except:
a. cosmetic surgery.
*b. modern gynecology.
c. body sculpting.
d. extreme dieting.
Page Number: 302
13. The group most likely to experience body dissatisfaction related to the ideal of thinness is:
a. White lesbians.
b. African American women.
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The Kaleidoscope of Gender, Fifth Edition
Joan Z. Spade and Catherine G. Valentine
Instructor Resources - Testbank
15. In Western culture, men’s and women’s bodies, sexualities, and emotions are expected to be:
a. identical.
*b. opposite.
c. gender-neutral.
d. somewhat similar.
Page Number: 302
16. Trautner found which of the following gender/class scripts in women working in exotic
dance clubs?
a. Dancers in middle-class clubs enact bad-girl sexuality.
*b. Dancers in working-class clubs enact bad-girl sexuality.
c. Dancers in working class-clubs enact good-girl sexuality.
d. Dancers in upper-class clubs enact both good-girl/bad-girl sexuality.
Page Number: 304
Essay
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The Kaleidoscope of Gender, Fifth Edition
Joan Z. Spade and Catherine G. Valentine
Instructor Resources - Testbank
36. What are some examples of the gendered body work that western societies require their
members to perform? What is the cost of this work in terms of time and money?
*a. Varies
Answers can include the work men do to obtain “hard bodies” (lifting weights, exercising, taking
steroids) and the work women do to fit the societal standard of youth, slim, and fit (dieting,
shaving, deodorizing, cosmetics and cosmetic surgeries).
Page Number: 301
38. Discuss why women “accept” and actively participate in a system that requires them to alter
their bodies and maintain a youthful, thin, body with white characteristics. What role does the
concept of “symbolic violence” play in this self-policing of the body?
*a. Varies
Answers can include the direct and indirect pressure brought on women to fit the ideal type (or at
least spend a significant amount of time and money trying to). Mernissi’s point about the
symbolic violence of western culture should be defined and applied.
Page Number: 301–302
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and how shall we reach him save through the pages of history? It is
the foundation upon which are reared the superstructures of
sociology, psychology, philosophy and ethics. It is our clue to the
problems of the race. It is the gateway through which we glimpse the
noble and terrible things which have stirred the human soul.
A cultivated American poet has said that men of his craft “should
know history inside out, and take as much interest in the days of
Nebuchadnezzar as in the days of Pierpont Morgan.” This is a
spacious demand. The vast sweep of time is more than one man can
master, and the poet is absolved by the terms of his art from severe
study. He may know as much history as Matthew Arnold, or as little
as Herrick, who lived through great episodes, and did not seem to be
aware of them. But Mr. Benét is wise in recognizing the inspiration of
history, its emotional and imaginative appeal. New York and Pierpont
Morgan have their tale to tell; and so has the dark shadow of the
Babylonian conqueror, who was so feared that, while he lived, his
subjects dared not laugh; and when he died, and went to his
appointed place, the poor inmates of Hell trembled lest he had come
to rule over them in place of their master, Satan.
“The study of Plutarch and ancient historians,” says George
Trevelyan, “rekindled the breath of liberty and of civic virtue in
modern Europe.” The mental freedom of the Renaissance was the
gift of the long-ignored and reinstated classics, of a renewed and
generous belief in the vitality of human thought, the richness of
human experience. Apart from the intellectual precision which this
kind of knowledge confers, it is indirectly as useful as a knowledge of
mathematics or of chemistry. How shall one nation deal with another
in this heaving and turbulent world unless it knows something of
more importance than its neighbour’s numerical and financial
strength—namely, the type of men it breeds. This is what history
teaches, if it is studied carefully and candidly.
How did it happen that the Germans, so well informed on every
other point, wrought their own ruin because they failed to understand
the mental and moral make-up of Frenchmen, Englishmen and
Americans? What kind of histories did they have, and in what spirit
did they study them? The Scarborough raid proved them as ignorant
as children of England’s temper and reactions. The inhibitions
imposed upon the port of New York, and the semi-occasional ship