Among the eight UN Millennial Goals, one that highlights gender issues specifically is to
promote gender equality and empower women
the expectation of thought and behavior that each culture assigns to people of different sexes
gender
The discussion of machismo in Latin America in the text indicates that
conceptions of machismo and masculinity are variable and shifting
The restudy of women's role in the Trobriand Island exchanges indicated that
women exchanged banana fiber skirts during funerary activities
The learned behaviors perceived as masculine or feminine are called
cultural constructions
________ is the term anthropologists use to refer to physical differences in primary and secondary sexual characteristics
sexual dimorphism
In the gender-based violence against nonheterosexuals, ________ are especially vulnerable
transgenders
During the El Salvador civil war (1977-1992), the group Co-Madres emerged as a political force that initially formed as a group of
mothers and relatives who demands information about the missing
More than 80 percent of victims of domestic violence in the United States
are female
The phrases "boys will be boys" and "it's a girls' thing" reflect gender
stereotypes
Matthew Gutmann's research in Mexico indicates that
masculine identity is in flux and negotiable
For anthropologists, ________ refers to the observable physical differences between male and female human beings, especially the biological differences related to human reproduction
sex
Which of the following is a way that sports such as T-ball reinforce gender ideals in US children
Boys typically receive more playing time than girls
Early feminist anthropological studies focused on identifying
the underlying roots of universal male dominance
Improved conditions across the globe indicate that the Millennial goal of achieving gender equality
is in fact far from complete, even though conditions have improved somewhat
Medical data indicate that ________ of individuals are born without the biological traits that make them easily classified biologically as male or female
less than 2 percent
According to the text, increased participation in the global economy means that many women who migrate from the global South find work as ________ in industrialized nations
nannies
The behaviors encouraged in sports-where boys are rewarded for competitiveness and girls are encouraged to play quietly-reflect
social adult gender roles
Which of the following does not factor into biological differences between men and women
hair length
An uneven distribution of power and access to resources, opportunities, rights, and privileges in which gender shapes who has access to a group's resources, opportunities, rights, and privileges is known as gender
stratificaiton
Gender violence is widely expressed in all of the following ways, EXCEPT
male infanticide
On average, human men weigh ________ more than women
15 percent
Gender-based violence commonly occurs
all of the above
home, wartime, college
The pattern of behavior including gambling, drinking, infidelity, and drug use that Matthew Gutmann studied in Mexico is associated with
machismo
Anne Fausto-Sterling's analysis of biological sexual identity identifies
four sexes including hijras
The United States requires that individuals identify legally as
either male or female
Ida Susser's initial research focused on
the student movement at Kent State University (Ohio)
Cross-cultural studies indicate that biology predicts
the roles men and women play in a given culture
Emily Martin's analysis of the "fairy tale" of the egg and the sperm as presented in U. S. textbooks does NOT indicate that
female" eggs aggressively pursue more "passive" male sperm until conception occurs
By studying the "fag discourse" in US schools, anthropologists have learned that
girls can increase their status by performing masculine behavior