1. One historical point about Victorian gender norms that illustrates how our co
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1. One historical point about Victorian gender norms that illustrates how our concept of sexual identity has changed over time is that:
A. women were expected to maintain a close, intimate, life-long and potentially sexual relationship with another woman outside of her marriage to her husband. While today, this would raise questions about the women s sexual identity, in Victorian England this was not only normal but expected of women.
B. Males used to be initiated into masculine heterosexual Victorian culture through homoerotic sexual rituals intended to increase their masculinity.
C. Women and men used to only have sex with one another in order to reproduce whereas meaningful sexual relationships were limited to only same-sex relationships.
D. None of the above
2. Judith Butler, in Gender Trouble, argues that
A. gender and sexual identities are performative, meaning that we internalize the social expectations around us on how we should express our perceived gender and sexual identity.
B. the strict social policing of gender and sexual performances through the use of social sanctions maintain heteronormative power structures.
C. gender and sexual performances come to be seen as core definitions of self.
D. All of the above
3. Which of the following is the best explanation of Michel Foucault s argument that sexuality created sex?
A. Long ago, people had trouble figuring out how to have sex. So one day, a tribal elder (we are uncertain if the elder was male or female) created the concept of sexuality in order to guide people on who they were supposed to find attractive. Because of this social development being passed down through the millennia, we all know who we are to have sex with only because of the creation of sexuality.
B. In the distant prehistoric past, people did not have sex but reproduced by budding much like some marine life does today. Over time, people evolved distinct genitalia and began forming sexual groupings around the newly evolved capacity for sexuality. Thus it was the evolution of sexuality that allowed us to begin having sex.
C. This argument is based on an allegorical tale by Foucault where space-travelers accidently go back in time and give ancient peoples the concept of sexuality in order to expand their sexual potential.
D. Sex used to be seen in the West as just a behavior and not seen as part of a core identity. As sex and moral interpretations of sex became more of a focus in Medieval European Christian confessionals, sexual behavior was highlighted as socially important in a way that had not existed before. After the rise of scientific and medical establishments as authoritative Western institutions over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, interpretations of the social values of sexual behaviors solidified in medical discourses as sexual identity. Thus, sex was re-created under a new interpretive model- that of sexuality.
A. women were expected to maintain a close, intimate, life-long and potentially sexual relationship with another woman outside of her marriage to her husband. While today, this would raise questions about the women s sexual identity, in Victorian England this was not only normal but expected of women.
B. Males used to be initiated into masculine heterosexual Victorian culture through homoerotic sexual rituals intended to increase their masculinity.
C. Women and men used to only have sex with one another in order to reproduce whereas meaningful sexual relationships were limited to only same-sex relationships.
D. None of the above
2. Judith Butler, in Gender Trouble, argues that
A. gender and sexual identities are performative, meaning that we internalize the social expectations around us on how we should express our perceived gender and sexual identity.
B. the strict social policing of gender and sexual performances through the use of social sanctions maintain heteronormative power structures.
C. gender and sexual performances come to be seen as core definitions of self.
D. All of the above
3. Which of the following is the best explanation of Michel Foucault s argument that sexuality created sex?
A. Long ago, people had trouble figuring out how to have sex. So one day, a tribal elder (we are uncertain if the elder was male or female) created the concept of sexuality in order to guide people on who they were supposed to find attractive. Because of this social development being passed down through the millennia, we all know who we are to have sex with only because of the creation of sexuality.
B. In the distant prehistoric past, people did not have sex but reproduced by budding much like some marine life does today. Over time, people evolved distinct genitalia and began forming sexual groupings around the newly evolved capacity for sexuality. Thus it was the evolution of sexuality that allowed us to begin having sex.
C. This argument is based on an allegorical tale by Foucault where space-travelers accidently go back in time and give ancient peoples the concept of sexuality in order to expand their sexual potential.
D. Sex used to be seen in the West as just a behavior and not seen as part of a core identity. As sex and moral interpretations of sex became more of a focus in Medieval European Christian confessionals, sexual behavior was highlighted as socially important in a way that had not existed before. After the rise of scientific and medical establishments as authoritative Western institutions over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, interpretations of the social values of sexual behaviors solidified in medical discourses as sexual identity. Thus, sex was re-created under a new interpretive model- that of sexuality.
Explanation / Answer
1. option D) none of these
A is false,in victorian era sex was a taboo topic, and women were expected to honour only their husbands with household work and with their bodies, adultery in any form by a wife was a disaster for her reputation.
B and C are false, any homosexual activity was punishable in the era.
2.option D) allthe points are true
gender and sexual identities are performative, meaning that we internalize the social expectations around us on how we should express our perceived gender and sexual identity gender and sexual performances come to be seen as core definitions of identity.
3) option D) Sex used to be seen in the West as just a behavior and not seen as part of a core identity. As sex and moral interpretations of sex became more of a focus in Medieval European Christian confessionals, sexual behavior was highlighted as socially important in a way that had not existed before. After the rise of scientific and medical establishments as authoritative Western institutions over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, interpretations of the social values of sexual behaviors solidified in medical discourses as sexual identity. Thus, sex was re-created under a new interpretive model- that of sexuality.
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