Gender Theory Flashcards

Paper 2 Section A Revision

1
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What is the name of Lakoff’s model?

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The Deference Model

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2
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What did Lakoff say about Women’s Language?

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That there are 10 features specific to it

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What are the 10 features in Lakoff’s Deference Model?

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Hedges, superpolitness, hypercorrectness, tag questions, speaking in italics, empty adjectives, use of implication, special lexicon, question intonation, no sense of humour

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4
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Who criticised Lakoff?

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Dubois and Crouch

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What did Dubois and Crouch find in their criticism?

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Men use more tag questions. However, these tags are not used to try and gain support and are used instead to maintain discussion or be polite and show cooperation

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The Dominance Model is a response to which model?

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The Deference Model

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The Dominance Model states that men deliberately behave in an uncooperative way when talking to women in order to?

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undermine and dominate them.

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8
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Zimmerman and West looked at dominance through?

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Turn taking

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Which two irregularities in turn taking did Zimmerman and West look at?

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Overlaps and Interruptions

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Overlaps are very close to the?

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TRP (Transactional Relevance Point)

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11
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Interruptions are seen as v _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of the turn taking process

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Violations

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12
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Interruptions are not near the?

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TRP

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13
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Interruptions are far more common in which gender?

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Men

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14
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Who criticised Zimmerman and West?

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Beattie

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15
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What did Beattie say about the size of the data sample?

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It was very small

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16
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What did Beattie challenge Zimmerman and West’s interpretation of?

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Interruptions

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17
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Who else criticised Zimmerman and West?

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Eakens and Eakens

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18
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Eakens and Eakens found that _ _ _ _ _ _ as well as gender determined whether someone would get interrupted or not

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status

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Eakens and Eakens found that there was a “h _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ preference” as people of a higher status were not interrupted as much

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Hierarchal

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20
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Why are minimal responses used?

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To show active participation in a conversation

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21
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Which type of minimal response did Zimmerman and West identify in their study?

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Delayed Minimal Response

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Delayed Minimal Reponses are when a speaker gives a minimal response at the appropriate point but only after a

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Pause

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23
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Delayed minimal responses show that a listener is demonstrating a lack of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ for the conversation.

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interest and enthusiasm

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24
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Fishman noted that women used the tag question ‘y’know’ how many times more than men?

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5 times

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25
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Fishman claimed that tag questions such as ‘y’know’ are used as an attempt by the woman speaking to stimulate a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ from her male interlocutor.

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response

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26
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Janet Holmes identified two types of tag questions. What are they?

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Speaker-orientated and addressee-orientated

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27
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Speaker-orientated tags are used for the benefit of whom?

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The speaker

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28
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Addressee-orientated tags are used for the benefit of whom?

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The listener

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29
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What did Janet Holmes’s study find that is contrary to Lakoff’s claims?

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That men and women use the same number of tags

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30
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What is the name of the theorist who found that women introduce more topics than men?

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Victoria DeFransisco

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What did DeFransisco say that women did in order to keep their conversations going?

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Work harder

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32
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DeFransisco said that women are less successful at getting their conversation?

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Accepted

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33
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DeFransisco said that women undertake ‘C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ S _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and adapt their conversations to help men.

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‘Conversational Shitwork’

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34
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De Francisco claimed that male silence and i _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is used to control conversation.

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inexpressiveness

35
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Helena Leet-Pelligrini discovered that gender and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ are both good predictors of conversation dominance.

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expertise

36
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Leet-Pelligrini said that male experts are the _ _ _ _ verbose

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most

37
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Leet-Pelligrini said that female non-experts are the _ _ _ _ _ verbose

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least

38
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The Difference Model states that men and women use language for different?

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purposes

39
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Tannen said that men and women’s language is different because of differences in upbringing and social _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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conditioning

40
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According to Tannen, women’s conversation is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ talk and is used to establish and maintain relationships.

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rapport

41
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According to Tannen, men’s conversation is _ _ _ _ _ _ talk and is predominantly used to give information.

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report

42
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In The Different Model women are seen to be conditioned or socialised into seeing talk as ‘the _ _ _ _ that holds relationships together’.

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glue

43
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What is the binary opposite of the following: Status v _________

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support

44
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What is the binary opposite of the following: Independence v _________

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Intimacy

45
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What is the binary opposite of the following: advice v __________

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understanding

46
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What is the binary opposite of the following: information v __________

A

Feelings

47
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What is the binary opposite of the following: orders v __________

A

Proposals

48
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Tannen identified two kinds of Turn Violations. Name them.

A

Uncooperative Overlaps and Cooperative Overlaps

49
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Tannen states that Co-operative overlaps are a sign of “ H _ _ _ I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ speakers.”

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high involvement

50
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Anna Bodine claimed that language is ‘A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ‘

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Androcentric

51
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Anne Bodine said that language favours which gender?

A

Men

52
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Anne Bodine said that in speech, women are judged by?

A

Male standards

53
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Deborah Jones claims that women’s talk falls into one of four categories. Name the four categories

A

House Talk Chatting Bitching Scandal

54
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What is the name of Jane Pilkington’s study?

A

The Bakery Study

55
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What did Jane Pilkington study in a bakery for 9 months?

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same-sex conversations

56
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Pilkington found that women use talk to affirm what?

A

Solidarity

57
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How often do women agree with each other in Pilkington’s study?

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Frequently

58
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Pilkington found that men find long pauses _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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Acceptable

59
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Carmen Fought said that girls and young women popularise vocal trends and slang, and use embellishments in _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ways.

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sophisticated

60
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Carmen Fought said that “If women do something like uptalk or vocal fry, it’s immediately interpreted as insecure, emotional or even stupid. The truth is this: Young women take linguistic features and use them as _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ for building relationships.”

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power tools

61
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Koenraad Kuiper found that in all-male talk amongst members of a rugby team, men were likely to pay less attention to the need to save face and instead use i _ _ _ _ _ _ as a way of expressing s _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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insults solidarity

62
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In Kuiper’s Changing Room Study, what happened to those who showed that they were angered or hurt by the insults?

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They were ostracised by the group

63
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The Diversity Model opposes ideas of “biological d _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ “

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determinism

64
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According to the Diversity Model, what is language influenced by?

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The roles we play in society and the way we interact socially with others.

65
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What is the name of Janet Hyde’s Hypothesis?

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Gender Similarities Hypothesis

66
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What does Janet Hyde claim in her hypothesis?

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That there are far more similarities between female and male speech than differences.

67
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What did O’Barr and Atkins discover in their Courtroom Study?

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that the differences that Lakoff identified are not necessarily the result of being a woman, but of being powerless.

68
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What is the name of O’Barr and Atkins’s Study?

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The Courtroom Study

69
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O’Barr and Atkins discovered that the differences that Lakoff identified are not necessarily the result of being a woman, but are a result of being _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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Powerless

70
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O’Barr and Atkins suggested that the features described by Lakoff as ‘Women’s Language’ should be re-named to?

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Powerless Language

71
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Deborah Cameron argues that sex difference in language is a _ _ _

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myth

72
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Cameron argues that women speak more because _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ means more to women

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communication

73
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Cameron argues that men use language competitively to gain

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status

74
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Cameron argues that men and women talk so differently that m _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ often arises between the sexes

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miscommunication

75
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Cameron argues that language is a p _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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peformance

76
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Cameron used the phrase v _ _ _ _ _ h _ _ _ _ _ _ to refer to the ways in which people regulate their language and communication to conform to social expectations and norms.

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‘verbal hygiene’

77
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Butler say that gender is not linked to biology. Instead, it is a series of r _ _ _ _ _ a _ _ _ that imitate expected gender roles and norms that we repeat constantly.

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Ritual Acts

78
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Butler believes that _ _ _ _ _ _ is constructed through language, not the other way round

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Gender

79
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Butler claims that _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ performances expose the performative nature of femininity

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Drag Queen

80
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In drag, men perform the gender norms we expect of women. They show that behaviour that seems natural and linked to biology is, in fact a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ determined performance.

A

Socially

81
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In imitating gender, drag reveals the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ structure of gender itself.

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imitative

82
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Baxter researched the relationship between language, gender and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in the workplace.

A

Leadership

83
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Baxter claimed that women are as capable as men of being powerful and can also use language to maintain _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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Dominance

84
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Cameron believes that any noticeable language differences in gender are because of the e _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ placed on us by society and not because of biological.

A

expectations