WOMS202 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Female Genital Mutilation, Human Male Sexuality, Psychological Abuse
1 May 2018
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Exam 3 Study Guide-
WOMS 202
Questions: 2-4 sentences 10 total do 7/8
1. What is gender‐based violence, and who does it affect?
a. Occurs as a result of the normative role expectations associated with each
gender, along with the unequal power relationships between the two
genders, within the context of a specific society
b. Who is affected: women and men, girls and boys
c. BUT majority affected are women and girls
i. 1 out of every 3 experience sexual abuse in lifetime
ii. Not necessarily related to class, employment, education, age,
marital status- happens at all levels
d. Examples include physical abuse, sexual abuse, rape, domestic violence,
emotional and psychological abuse, sexual harassment and intimidation,
female genital cutting, and human trafficking
2. When Thai women take factory jobs, how do others benefit? (Half the Sky)
a. These young women finance more than the education of siblings. They
enable their rural families to purchase inputs required for cash cropping
and provide cash for medical emergencies,family access to piped water,
and access to consumer commodities like television.
3. According to Narayan, what do Kristof and WuDunn fail to note about Thai
women's factory jobs, and why does it matter? (Half the Sky)
a. Kristof and WuDunn fail to note that these women are employed for only a
few years each, eventually replaced by a host of other young women
trekking to the cities. Most women in Mill’s study have no long-term option
but to return to their villages and to count on marriage and their agrarian
family economy to sustain them for the remainder of their lives. If such
“opportunities” were those that awaited their own daughters, Western
readers might wonder what the “double X solution” was a solution for.
i. It turns out that when women are given the chance to play a larger
role in the economy, they make smart investment and savings
decisions and are able to take better care of their families, which
means a reduced infant mortality rate and improved health and
nutrition for all family members. This phenomenon, dubbed “the girl
effect” or else “the double x solution,” has been observed many
times and in numerous different settings all over the world. Of
course, the opposite is also true: when women are oppressed and
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excluded from the economy, the economic health of the nation
suffers. “Gender inequality hurts economic growth.”
b. Women should have to worry about their own rights instead of how they
contribute to society
4. What central point does Narayan believe is left out of the picture in Half the Sky?
a. The point that is left out is the very little sense of the vast global economic
and political forces that impoverish these women’s lives and cause them
to attempt to survive in the middle of armed conflicts and economic chaos.
The huge disparities of wealth between rich and poor nations and between
the global affluent and the global poor appear to simply exist, without
cause or explanation.
5. What are some of the dominant ideas or "folk beliefs" about male sexuality in
Oaxaca? (“Scoring Men”)
a. Supposed male sex drives influence decisions on birth control
i. Male sexuality as naturalized, as both a fixed entity and as
something entirely distinct from female sexuality
ii. More common for females to use a form of contraception
iii. The penchants of adolescent males for sexual self-gratification
iv. The equation of male sexuality with uncontrollable urges and cant
turn it off (backed by medical professionals)
1. It is believed that society encourages men to have these
urges to be more public because women are sex shamed
more often
v. The presumption that many men are having extra-marital affairs
vi. Idea that young men masturbate all the time
b. Sexuality is understood as a process of psychosocial compulsions and
restrictions, in which ostensibly male sexual desires, needs and
satisfactions are given a naturalized and thoroughly gendered character
c. Health care practitioners accept male sexuality to be what it is but men
have uncontrollable sexual urges
6. What reasons did men in Oaxaca give for choosing to have
vasectomies?(“Scoring Men”)
a. Mass majority of people in mexico are catholic and must deliberately reject
church doctrine forbidding the use of artificial contraception of any kind
b. Differences between macho and non-macho cultures: men who get
sterilized might somehow be acting in a manner unrepresentative of their
macho culture
c. Men choose to get this done because...
i. Still wanna have sex but no desire for more or any children
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Document Summary
Most women in mill"s study have no long-term option but to return to their villages and to count on marriage and their agrarian family economy to sustain them for the remainder of their lives. Opportunities were those that awaited their own daughters, western readers might wonder what the double x solution was a solution for. This phenomenon, dubbed the girl effect or else the double x solution, has been observed many times and in numerous different settings all over the world. Of course, the opposite is also true: when women are oppressed and excluded from the economy, the economic health of the nation suffers. The penchants of adolescent males for sexual self-gratification. The presumption that many men are having extra-marital affairs. Women : widows pursued and provided for their male partners. The widows who were the most rich were independently wealthy, exercised financial and relational autonomy by engaging in relationships with younger men upon whom bestow money upon.
