Final Exam Essay

SocWmSt 325/Forsythe Fall 2011

From Gender Through a Prism of Difference and related course material

  1. Throughout the semester, we have discussed various locations where gender difference is created, reproduced or challenged. List 10 of the locations that we discussed in the second half of the semester and the readings, material presented in class, etc. where you learned about them. (10 points)

1.) Gender and Violence, “The Rio Declaration of Gender Independence”
2.) Paternity Leave and Masculinity vs. Maternity Leave, “Caring Fathers”
3.) Gender differences in coaching kids’ teams, “Separating the Men from the Moms” Pg. 330
The mothers being soccer moms and Dads being coaches
4.) Gender and violence with strip club owners “Keeping Women Down and Out
Strip Club
Business Meetings
On Stage
Private Boots
Fraternities - “Getting off and Getting Intimate” by Ray and Rosow pg147
5.)-Fraternity houses
6.)-At the club
7.)-at the Friday lunches where the frat boys talk about the women they had sex with
8.)-when calling other boys pussy whipped
9.) Men Returning from the War (Voice Male Magazine)
10.) Latina Women Working in the U.S.
11.) Vertical segregation within occupation
12.) Homosexuality in high school and gender (Dude you’re a Fag article)
13.)-In classrooms
14.)-In the hallways
15.)-At school dances

  2. From the list you created for the previous question, pick three of those locations that are relevant to our discussion of gendered institutional arrangements and explain:

      a.   how gender difference is created, reproduced or challenged in those locations, and
      b. how gender difference is constrained or shaped by institutional arrangements. (Institutional arrangements and structural constraints can be used interchangeably.) (30 points)
1.) The first location I will analyze is the article Fraternities “Getting off and Getting Intimate” by Ray and Rosow.   Gender differences can be seen in the Fraternity...