GWS 300 - Women as Agents of Change » Spring 2021 » Quiz 4

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Question #1
Why does Stryker declare that “it is neither radical nor reactionary to embrace a trans identity”? (p.5)
A.   Because being trans can never “simply be that way”
B.   Because transfeminism requires inclusion in political spaces
C.   Because nontrans people can think of themselves as being women and men without having to defend their sense of being gendered
D.   All of these
Question #2
According to Susan Stryker, (pp. 1-5) feminism that is inclusive of trans people should:
A.   Recognize that oppression can happen not only from sticking to strict gender categories but also from changing gender or contesting gender categories
B.   Be more sensitive to the fact that trans people are fighting to serve in the military openly even today
C.   Allow some trans people to hold leadership positions in the feminist movement
D.   All of these
Question #3
According to Susan Stryker, gender binary means (p 15-22)?
A.   that there are two social genders based on two and only two sexes
B.   That trans* people are either male or female only
C.   Even though there are 2 sexes, they can be expressed a number of ways outwardly
D.   All of these
Question #4
In Stryker, which is true of gender-neutral pronouns?
A.   Latinx is used to replace gendered pronouns in Spanish language
B.   All of these
C.   Mandarin Chinese third person pronouns are not gendered when spoken
D.   English dialects such as the Anglo-Saxon are still in use in places like Yorkshire in the UK can mean he/she/it
E.   Non gender pronouns are the rule rather than the exception in most non-Indo-European languages
Question #5
According to Jack Halberstam, why is a name important?
A.   It establishes character, lead into events and create expectations
B.   It ensures that we know our identity throughout our life
C.   It accurately defines body parts 
D.   None of the above
Question #6
According to Halberstam, what are some problems with the obsession to name and categorize identity?
A.   Efforts to classify human behavior were linked to racial projects that held apart white populations from populations of color and that still endure today by an impulse to categorize differences and organize life based on those categories
B.   Naming has given rise to overly empowered experts who then legitimize or delegitimize the experiences of people who do not fit the norms
C.   The way scientists distinguished between normal and abnormal bodies lent support to white supremacist projects that tried to tie together racial otherness, gender variance and sexual perversion
D.   All of these
Question #7
According to Halberstam, what kind of resistance work can unnamed characters do in fictional work (P. 2)?
A.   Nameless characters add to the suspense of the story by raising audience curiosity about what’s going to happen next
B.   Unnamed characters help to give more clarity to the named characters so the audience can really empathize with the named protagonists
C.   All of these
D.   Non-naming challenges the idea of a character and raises questions about the ability of naming to capture nuances of human identification
Question #8
According to Halberstam, the obsession with categorizing trans bodies exists within a longer history of?
A.   Nineteenth century western science
B.   The Ottoman empire
C.   Ancient Greek philosophy
D.   Ming dynasty of China
Question #9
According to Halberstam, what was the significant insight of the French philosopher, Michele Foucault, in the study of sexuality (p.7)?
A.   Foucault maintained that psychoanalysis produced the very concepts of bodily identity it claimed to discover, hence creating a fiction of gendered and sexual identity that became the dominant narrative of being in the 20th century
B.   Foucault argued that we pay attention to the irrational and the unconscious to fully grasp how sexuality governs our psyches and shapes our behaviors
C.   None of these
D.   Foucault argued that the external frames can reveal the internal secrets of the body
Question #10
Why is Halberstam not impressed with the explosion of gender identification categories on social media sites like Facebook?
A.   The categories were created without input from the trans* community
B.   he is cautious because the profusion of classifications we see in social media still harken back to the early days of sexology where doctors produced "expert" knowledge of human and sexual gendered behavior that saw non normative people as deviant and pathological
C.   All of these
D.   Facebook’s Fifty-one categories are not enough
Question #11
What is Halberstam’s main argument about the terms “homosexual/heterosexual and transsexual,” “man/woman,” “masculine/feminine,” and “whiteness/blackness/brownness”?
A.   That they signal the inevitable fate of bodies and populations because of inherent discrimination 
B.   That they are terms that have historical variation and not a single essence
C.   None of these
D.   That they are separate categories

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