Quiz 2- Gender and Race

Question 1

SEX

Answer 1

• Biological, Based on genitalia: Ovarian or Testicular
• Division of category/ Sex Dimorphism (Dichotomy)
• Female OF Male
• Transexual = Unambiguous genitalia yet feel being trapped in the wrong physical body

Question 2

SEXUALITY

Answer 2

Attractions (Erotic) to other person
- Homosexual: same sex attraction
- Heterosexual: Opposite sex attraction
- Bisexual: Same sex and opposite sex attraction

Question 3

GENDER

Answer 3

Cultural and Social Dimension
- Feminity/Mascunility

Question 4

Problem of Gender

Answer 4

• Socially constructed
  -> Characteristics associated with Women/Man
  - Beauty ideal & body shape, temperament & personality
  traits, behaviors
• Diff btw F/M are often opposite
• Relative, Evolving, Contested and Unequal

Question 5

Conceptualization of Gender

Answer 5

• Confusion w SEX
• Individual Identity
• Related to our biological sex as well as our sexuality
• Social Construct
• Some see it as Dichotomy (MASC. vs FEM)
• Other as a spectrum

Question 6

Canada as a Gendered Society

Answer 6

• Distinctions btw male/female
• Division of labour -> MEN: public domain (“superior”),
  WOMEN: domestic domain (“inferior”)
• Seen as normal and neutral when behave accordingly

Question 7

Experiences + Race & Social class

Answer 7

• Gender diff = diff experiences
• Gender intersects w Race & Social class = diff opportunities
  -> Majority & Minority dynamic
• Racialized indv. have diff experiences
  -> Accessing to social and community services

Question 8

RACE: Critical Stand

Answer 8

• Socially constructed, in the defense of majority (White)domination as legitemate
  -> Common biological ancestry
• legitimacy to classified people into diff categories
  -> Diff features -> diff inferior/superior qualities
• Colonized people into racialized “others”
  -> Superior vs the “Other”
• “Other” seen as inferior and a threat needed to be eliminated

Question 9

RACE ACTS in Canada

Answer 9

Citizenship Act (1947)
Immigration Act (1967)
Multiculturalism Act (1988)

Question 10

Citizenship Act

Answer 10

• 1947
• No distinctions btw immigrants and native born person as a basis of citizenship

Question 11

Immigrant Act

Answer 11

• 1967
  Abolish all quotas or preferences on the basis of race or ethnicity,
  -> Color-blind immigration policies

Question 12

Multiculturalism Act

Answer 12

• 1988
  Living together with differences