The Kaleidoscope of Gender, Fifth Edition

Joan Z. Spade and Catherine G. Valentine

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Chapter 1 – Test Questions
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True/False

1. “Passing” such as a man passing for a woman, carries the assumption that certain
individuals naturally embody characteristics of the group they are claiming membership
in.
a. True
*b. False
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2. In Pfeffer’s research study on women with trans partners, the most frequent sexual
orientation self-identification label in the sample was “lesbian.”
*a. True
b. False
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3. The women in Pfeffer’s research study experience their sexual identity as individual,
inherent, and immutable.
a. True
*b. False
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4. Younger cis women (those under 35 years of age) more frequently worried that their
relationships would be (mis)recognized as heterosexual than older cis women (those 35
years of age and older).
*a. True
b. False
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5. According to Kessler and McKenna, the prefix “trans” in transgender means the
“transcendence” or “transformation” of gender or gender normativity.
a. True
*b. False
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6. The accounts of women participating in Pfeffer’s study suggest that queer visibility
remains culturally synonymous with social perceptions of female masculinity and male
femininity.
*a. True
b. False
Page Number: 64

7. Some of the strategies femme participants used to make themselves recognizable as

queer included tattooing and body piercing.
*a. True
b. False
Page Number: 64

8. In calling for expanded rights and inclusion, mainstream lesbian and gay social
movements have relied on social constructionist explanations for gender and sexuality.
a. True
*b. False
Page Number: 66

9. Trans men faced threats of violence when their sexuality was called into question in
gay and lesbian bars.
*a. True
b. False
Page Number: 65

Multiple Choice

10. Queer theory critiques notions of all of the following except:

a. normativity.
b. deviance.
*c. sexuality.
d. coherent identities.
Page Number: 51

11. Queer theory and politics embraced (rather than attempted to reconcile):
*a. the fluidity of all of sexual acts, boundaries, and identities.
b. the normalization of gay and lesbian relationships.
c. the existence of a relatively stable homosexual subject and identity.
d. the legalization of same sex marriage.
Page Number: 51

12. Sociological queer analysis blends the performative nature of identity with a
sociological sensibility about how these performances are all of the following except:

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a. constrained.
*b. social constructed.
c. hierarchical.
d. rooted in social inequality.
Page Number: 52

13. ________ is often held as the gold standard of “successful” transsexualism.

a. Reconstructive surgery
b. Cosmetic surgery
c. Group membership
*d. Passing
Page Number: 52

14. Passing in _________ contexts has been recognized as a strategy for accessing and
attaining regulated social, material, and legal resources.
*a. racial
b. sexuality
c. gender
d. educational
Page Number: 52

15. Pfeffer chooses to use the sociological notion of _________, rather than the
essentialist notion of passing.
a. transgenderism
*b. recognition
c. inequality
d. stratification
Page Number: 53

16. Women in Pfeffer’s research were concerned about being seen as “heteronormative”
which they defined as including all of these elements except:
a. fulfilling stereotypically gendered “roles” in their relationships.
b. endorsing majoritarian politics.
*c. not being seen as lesbian.
d. not being seen as queer or politically radical.
Page Number: 56

17. Pfeffer’s research reveals the paradoxical situation of women involved with trans
men. On the one hand, they have access to heteronormative social privileges, while on
the other they:
a. have to live with the sexist expectations of their trans men partners.
b. continue to be suspect as gender queer in the larger society.
c. feel pressured to take on the conventional housewife role.
*d. lose access to sexual minority communities with which they identify.
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18. Cis women partners of trans men faced challenges of marginalization from all of the
following except:
*a. their parents and extended families.
b. social distancing and exclusion.
c. (mis)recognition by others within LGBTQ communities.
d. their trans partner’s disassociation from LGBTQ communities to reinforce their social
recognition as a man.
Page Number: 62

Essay

19. Pfeffer recommends replacing the essentialist notions of “passing” with a more
sociological notion of “recognition” in analyzing gender and sexuality. Summarize the
advantages of recognition over passing for research on gender and sexuality.
*a. Varies
Students should include the tension for between trans people attempting to live within
gender identities normatively corresponding to their sex assignment or sex categorization
(female) rather than their subjective gender identities (male). Transitioning allows them
to bring their bodies and social embodiments in line with their gender identity (and be
recognized by others). By focusing on how we recognize and misrecognize others’ self-
identities, we come to better understand these identities not as individual and
predetermined fixed entities, but as dynamic social processes.
Page Number: 53

20. In calling for expanded rights and inclusion, mainstream lesbian and gay social
movements have largely centered on a politics of sameness and respectability. What do
Pfeffer’s research findings suggest about the messiness and fluidity of sexual acts,
boundaries, and identities? How does this challenge mainstream politics of
normativeness?
*a. Varies
Students should discuss the mainstream movement politics and goals in relation to the
ways that queer identities are produced and challenged through interactional processes.
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