Unit 8: Optional theme — Social philosophy
Topic 8.3: Gender Questions
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Intersectionality is the idea that:
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To say gender is 'socially constructed' means that:
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Philosophers distinguish 'sex' from 'gender' because:
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True or false? To object to essentialism you must deny that male and female bodies differ biologically at all.
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Where does de Beauvoir make the 'becomes a woman' claim?
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A 'gender construct' (a picture of femininity or masculinity) does two things at once — it:
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Gender essentialism is the view that:
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A second problem for the 'two clean boxes' picture is that:
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True or false? 'Gender is socially constructed' means gender is imaginary and makes no real difference.
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The careful worry philosophers raise about 'complementary' framings is that:
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On essentialism, the relationship between sex and gender is that:
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One strong objection to gender essentialism is that:
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Social conditioning is best described as:
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Casting female and male as yin and yang frames them as:
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Fill the gap: sex is the biological classing of the body, while ______ is the social roles, expectations and identity attached to being a man, woman or neither.
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Why doesn't 'my gender feels completely natural to me' prove gender is born, not made?
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De Beauvoir's 'one is not born, but becomes, a woman' claims that:
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Sexism is best described as:
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True or false? Showing that a gender role is 'constructed' by itself proves the role is unfair.
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Fill the gap: de Beauvoir wrote 'one is not born, but rather ______, a woman' — meaning the role is shaped over time, not simply handed over at birth.
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