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Sociologist Mignon Moore found that the intersection of ________ and ________ most impacted the identities of the women in her book Invisible Families (2011)
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race;sexuality
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Which of the following statements about the mati of Suriname is true
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Mati regard sexuality as a flexible behavior rather than a fixed identity
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According to the text, the idea that masturbation was a form of self-abuse is most characteristic of which period
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the Victorian era
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The way systems of power interconnect to affect individual lives and group experiences is called
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intersextionality
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Which of the following is NOT a motivation that cultural anthropologist Denise Brennan lists for young, rural, poor Dominican women to migrate to towns like Sosua
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to have a vacation
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Geneticists have been able to successfully identify
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no gene or cluster of genes that determines sexuality
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The scale describing a spectrum of human sexuality with exclusively heterosexual behavior on one end and exclusively homosexual behavior on the other is known as
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the Kinsey scale
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Under the rules of machismo, the machista is considered
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a manly man
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Scientists have found that human sexuality
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is marked by diversity, flexibility, and fluidity
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Physical anthropologist Helen Fisher suggests that neurochemicals guide humans through which of the following experiences
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falling in love
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Which of the following does NOT fit in the definition of sexuality in the text
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the public display of wealth to gain community status
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The experience of being a middle-class black lesbian
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is a unique status reflecting the intersectionality of race, class, and sexuality
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Heterosexuality in the United States
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is a relatively new invention and not the historical norm
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Students at Antioch College developed a sexual offense policy centered on which of the following guidelines
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yes means yes
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The Victorian ideal of sexuality was heavily influenced by which of the following
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Christian teachings
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________ is a social scientist who wrote about the link between sexuality and power, describing the ways that sexuality is an arena in which appropriate behavior is defined, relations of power are worked out, and inequality and stratification are created, enforced, and contested
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Michel Foucault
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The text offers examples of sex tourism destinations around the world. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the text
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France
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All of the women in Patty Kelly's research in a brothel in Chiapas, Mexico, used the brothel as a way to do all of the following, EXCEPT
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work out unresolved childhood issues
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Margaret Mead's work in the islands of the western Pacific contributed which of the following to a greater understanding of human sexuality
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This work challenged the assumptions that U. S. attitudes about sexuality were universal traits fixed in human nature.
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Which of the following is NOT an example of the attempt to regulate aspects of sexuality by cultural institutions such as the government?
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age of licensed driver
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In Kano, Nigeria, Rudolf Gaudio found that the code term for men who have sex with other men is
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masu harka
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Initiation ceremonies among the Sambia of Papua New Guinea involve the transfer of semen between
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older men and young men
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The "wedding industry" is which of the following
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the network of commercial activities and social institutions that market weddings in the united states
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Violence perpetuated through sexually related physical assaults such as rape is called
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sexual violence
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Anthropologist Patty Kelly found that men who visited the brothel in Chiapas were mostly
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local working class men
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People whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth may identify as
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transgender
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Colonial corporations such as the Dutch East India Company regulated sexual activity and marriage among employees. Their regulations did NOT include
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recruiting only married men, who were encouraged to travel with their wives and children in tow
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