Question 1: In contemporary American society, men are encouraged to avoid femininity and women are strongly encouraged to embrace both femininity and masculinity. Explain this phenomenon in your own words. Reflect on your life experience and discuss two examples of this phenomenon that you've seen, experienced, or read about.
Question 2: What is the feminine apologetic? Provide an example.
Question 3: Explain the phenomenon of the double bind. Why do the authors highlight media treatment of Sarah Palin (who ran for the 2008 Republican vice presidential nomination in the United States) as an example of a double bind? Provide another example of a double bind placed on women in public life and discuss how it fits this concept.
Question 4: Define benevolent sexism. Provide an example.
Question 5: As discussed in "Taking back 'hysterical'," "hysteria" - which comes from the Greek word for attributed to only women womb, hystera - was one of the first
Question 6: According to the hysterical essay, after the 1890s the word hysterical was applied to what two groups of women?
Question 7: As discussed in "Violence and Masculinity Threat," Jackson Katz contends that when young men have their masculinity sullied, threatened, or denied, they respond by...
Question 8: As discussed in "Violence and Masculinity Threat," how did college-aged men who had their masculinity threatened respond to cases of sexual coercion?
Question 9: In "My two cents on feminism and mylie cyrus," the author discusses the concept of patriarch bargains. What is a patriarchal bargain? Describe the patriarchal bargain made by Mylie Cyrus.
Question 10: Watch Angela Shaw's 11-minute TED Talk about the "angry Black woman" stereotype. Where do you see this stereotype pop up in your daily life? Do you see it in movies? Sitcoms? Reality TV? Are you familiar with Black women who appear to have adopted gender strategies meant to try to evade this stereotype? Are there any others who have embraced the stereotype, perhaps in an effort to undo or re-make it? Is this stereotype at play in your own life? How so?