Exam 3 Questions
Sociology of Gender, Spring 2005 (Erbaugh)
This exam is worth 15% of your grade. You will take the exam on Friday, May 6 in class. You will have the whole class period to write the exam. There will be some multiple-choice questions in addition to the following short answer questions. The study guide (available on the website) will help you prepare for those. You may bring with you one 3x5" or 5x7" card with notes for yourself. You do not need to bring a blue book. If you have any questions, please ask via email or in class. Have a good week!

Short answer. Read each question carefully and ANSWER ALL PARTS of it.

1. Why did seeing La Virgen de Guadalupe make Sandra Cisneros angry for so many years?

2. How does Alma Lopez' piece "Our Lady" respond to issues raised by Cisneros' essay? Why all the controversy?

3. Drawing on Sabo's article and Renzetti & Curran), identify two health risks associated with masculinity and explain how they arise.

4. Drawing on the articles and in-class presentation on transgender, what's the relationship between a transgender person's gender assignment and their gender identity?

5. Based on Zinn and Dill's article on multiracial feminism, identify a major limitation of recent "diversity" and "pluralist" trends in feminist studies.

6. Jaimes and Halsey argue that Native women have not aligned themselves with European (white) feminists for what reason(s)?

7. How did acknowledging her lesbianism help Cherríe Moraga to identify with her mother?

8. Robert Allen (author of "Stopping Sexual Harassment" and " Racism, Sexism and a Million Men") calls upon WHOM to do WHAT in order to quell sexual harassment, abuse and violence?