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.   All of these
C.   Because nontrans people can think of themselves as being women and men without having to defend their sense of being gendered
D.   Because transfeminism requires inclusion in political spaces
Question #2
According to Susan Stryker, (pp. 1-5) feminism that is inclusive of trans people should:
A.   Allow some trans people to hold leadership positions in the feminist movement
B.   Be more sensitive to the fact that trans people are fighting to serve in the military openly even today
C.   All of these
D.   Recognize that oppression can happen not only from sticking to strict gender categories but also from changing gender or contesting gender categories
Question #3
According to Susan Stryker, gender binary means (p 15-22)?
A.   That trans* people are either male or female only
B.   Even though there are 2 sexes, they can be expressed a number of ways outwardly
C.   that there are two social genders based on two and only two sexes
D.   All of these
Question #4
In Stryker, which is true of gender-neutral pronouns?
A.   All of these
B.   Mandarin Chinese third person pronouns are not gendered when spoken
C.   Non gender pronouns are the rule rather than the exception in most non-Indo-European languages
D.   Latinx is used to replace gendered pronouns in Spanish language
E.   English dialects such as the Anglo-Saxon are still in use in places like Yorkshire in the UK can mean he/she/it
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.   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
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.   All of these
D.   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
Question #7
According to Halberstam, what kind of resistance work can unnamed characters do in fictional work (P. 2)?
A.   Unnamed characters help to give more clarity to the named characters so the audience can really empathize with the named protagonists
B.   All of these
C.   Non-naming challenges the idea of a character and raises questions about the ability of naming to capture nuances of human identification
D.   Nameless characters add to the suspense of the story by raising audience curiosity about what’s going to happen next
Question #8
According to Halberstam, the obsession with categorizing trans bodies exists within a longer history of?
A.   Ming dynasty of China
B.   The Ottoman empire
C.   Nineteenth century western science
D.   Ancient Greek philosophy
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 argued that we pay attention to the irrational and the unconscious to fully grasp how sexuality governs our psyches and shapes our behaviors
B.   Foucault argued that the external frames can reveal the internal secrets of the body
C.   None of these
D.   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
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.   Facebook’s Fifty-one categories are not enough
C.   All of these
D.   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
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 are terms that have historical variation and not a single essence
B.   That they signal the inevitable fate of bodies and populations because of inherent discrimination 
C.   None of these
D.   That they are separate categories

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