You should be familiar with all the articles we've read for classes. Study sheets for those are available on-line, so just go over and make sure you've answered them correctly.  If you have read the articles and your notes are organized, then you will be in good shape.

Chapter 1:
1) The three themes of class.  Understand, explain and apply
2) What's androcentrism: explain and provide examples
3) What does male as norm mean: explain and provide examples
4) What is a gender dichotomy? Explain and provide examples
5) What's the difference between morality and causal analysis? Explain and provide examples
6) What is the sociological imagination  (How do personal issues become public ones?)
7) How has Women's studies attempted to change the notion of gender.  Further,  how has the study of gender changed over time  (five phases)
8)  What's a faulty generalization?   Matrix of domination?

Chapter 2: Social Construction of Identity
1)  Biological theories:  Understand how cause/effect, non-spuriousness, determinism and reductionism effect biological theories explaining gender identity.
 2)  Sociological theories
a)  Socialization
b) Symbolic Interaction
c)  Doing Gender
d) Identification theory
e) Cognitive Developmental theory

3) What are some problems with each theory

4)  What's the importance of institutions in creating identity and how do roles fit into institutions?

5) How do selective perception and hegemony problematically inform our understanding of how identity is informed

 If you understand all the theories you should be able to understand the differences and similarities of the theories as well.
 

Chapter 4:  Sexuality
1) How is sexuality relevant to our lives?
2)  How is sexuality socially and historically constructed?
3) How is sexuality affected by race, class and gender
4) What is phallocentric thinking?
5) How is sexuality controlled legally and normatively?
6) How is defining sexuality relevant to identity, behavior, preference and orientation?
7) What is compulsory heterosexuality?  homophobia?
8) How does our penchant for dichotomies affect sexuality?
9) How is menstruation and menopaus affected socially?
10) What issues about sexuality and the workplace are relevant?  pressure to be: ?

Chapter 12

1) What is theory?  Assumptions?
2)  Explain the historical period that gave rise to classical liberal theory.  What is the period of Enlightenment.
3)  What are the assumptions of classical liberal theory?  How did the original classical liberals contradict their own philosophy? 4) How are the assumptions of classical liberals problematic?
5) How has classical liberal theory dominated contemporary society? Explain in detail.
6) How have feminists adapted classical liberal theory to their own needs?
7) What policies for social change are logically consistent with classical liberal theory?
8)  How is the state justified under classical liberal theory?
9)  How is discrimination possible according to classical liberal theory?
10) What did Mary Wollstonecraft,  Harriet Martineau and Harriet Taylor Mill contribute to classical liberal theory
11)  Why is meritocracy difficult to attain?
12)  What are the two big dichotomies of classical liberal theory and how are they problematic?
 

Chapter 13
1) What is Feminism?
2)  What are the two main waves of feminist movements?  What were their goals?  Strategies?
3)  Marxist Feminism:   What is class?  What is Marx's concept of human nature?  How does this differ from Classical Liberals?   Understand species-being,  what Marx would say about competition,  what would he say about equality?   What does the state do?  What is hegemony?  False consciousness?   What is historical materialism?   Dialectic?  Also, what would marx argue causes sexist oppression?   WHAT's HIS SOLUTION?
4)  Radical Feminism:  What is sex/gender system?  What is patriarchy?  Explain how women are controlled.  How is motherhood important here?  Why can't the state be used to end patriarchy?  What solutions are necessary?
5)  Capitalist Patriarchy?  Why should we combine the two above theories?  When we do it,  how does the theory look?
6)  What three structural mechanims must be in place to create an egalitarian society?
7)  Mutli-racial feminism:   What structural and individual level aspects of society must change in order to reduce racism?  What happens if we leave out race in our understanding of oppression?  What does agency have to do with understanding racism?  Social policies that emerge from this theory?
8)  Post-Modernists:  How is power conceived?   How is meaning constructed?   Why is deconstruction important?
9)  What is Queer Theory?

Chapter 3:

Gender and Culture
1)   What is popular culture?
2)  Understand content analysis and how it is used.
3)  Know terms like symoblic annhilaition,  false consciousness and be able to apply them
4)  What does an examination of our language tell us about gender?
5) Reflection hypothesis,  Role-learning theory,  Organizational theories,  Marxist theory and Post-Modernist theory all provide various lenses for looking at the media.  Understand these
6)  How might we use "sexism as an ideology" to understand the issue of name-changing.   Rational act or irrational?  Explain why the emotions?
7)  Your author argues that the social context really matters when it comes to determining of language.  What's this mean?

UNDERSTAND THE MAIN THEMES OF THE FILMS and information that supports those themes:

Chapter 7

1)What does it mean to say that health is socially constructed.
2) How do issues of race, class and gender affect issues of health? (LOOK IN BOOK)
3)  What does it mean to say that "male is norm" in health?
4) How are white middle-class women the norm with regard to health?  especially in issues of birth control?
5)  Understand how men are supposed to be perceived as "virile."  and how that affects their access to health care
6)  Women are supposed to be passive wombs?  What's this mean?

How does protective legislation, discussions of reproduction and sex use this assumption of women as either wombs or passive or both.

7) How is body image linked to health?  Understand issues associated with anorexia and bulemia.
8)  Characteristics of women who drink, smoke and do drugs.  Women with AIDS?  Who are they?

9) As your book discusses,  what are the politics of birth control and abortion.
10)  The problem with nurses is not so much salary anymore, but what?

11)  In class we spent much time discussing childbirth.  Understand the history of midwives.  How are midwives and doctors distinct?  How is pregnancy, labor and childbirth conceived differently between the two groups.  What types of interventions can occur and how are they problematic?  How is the U.S. unique from other industrialized countries.

Chapter 10
 

What is power?  What is legitimate authority?
The government does politics differently than do citizens.  Explain

How is our government patriarchal?
The state is supposed to be neutral.  Often times it is far from neutral.  Explain how rape, divorce are biased.  What is a "reasonable" person?

Understand the two theories of the state: plurarlism versus power elite.

Laws can only do so much to create change.  WHY?

If women entered politics,  would things change?  Explain

Why don't women participate in government as much as men?

What are the two arguments for women and the military?  (ie.  feminst arguments against the military)
What issues are relevant for gays and lesbians in the military?

As we already discussed:  Know the three waves of feminism!
 

Chapter 5

1)  What are the three historical economic systems that affect gender:  family-based,  family-wage; family-consumer
2) How have the structure and ideology of work in society today and historically been organized to subjugate women? How has race and class affected this?

3) WHAT IS WORK?  how has our conception of work been affected by patriarchy and capitalism?

4)  How has the globalization of women affected women here and abroad?

5)  What are the biggest issues for women in paid work?

Pay gap:

Understand the causes of pay gap

human capital
job sex segregation
dual labor market theory
Discrimination
    job title disc
    tokenism
    networking
    glass ceiling
    workplace cultures
    sexual harassment

6)  Femiinization and poverty:

How are women affected?

Understand how are assumptions of welfare stem from our own biases and prejudices towards unpaid work:

what are the assumptions behind valuing corporate welfare over personal welfare?   How has hegemony convinced us that these assumptions are true even though rationally, they are not?

EXAMPLE TEST QUESTIONS:

Why is it problematic to say men and women are opposites?

a) Women and men are not so much “opposites” as “antagonists.”
b) In doing so we ignore and deny the “atypical” behaviors of men and women
c) It glosses over the fact that women are much more likely to engage in beauty rituals and men are more likely to engage in hobby rituals.
d) Because the more accurate word to describe masculinity and femininity is either matrifocal or matrilineal.

Which one of these is an analytical statement?

a) It is wrong to oppress women
b) men cry less than women
c) men should treat women with equal respect
d) women need to start taking responsibility for their own choices

Which one of these is an example of cultural hegemony:

a) sociological imagination
b) biological reductionism
c) a man who allows his child to play with dolls.
d) a woman who questions why ads are used to sell products


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