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*******According to Vicki Howard's article about the courtship letters of an African American couple in nineteenth-century Texas, Calvin Rhone and Lucia Knotts
• A. resisted white, middle-class, gender and courtship norms
B. conformed to white, middle-class, gender and courtship norms
.C. both resisted and conformed to white, middle-class, gender and courtship norms******
D. created their own unique gender and courtship patterns *****
According to Michel Foucault, sexual identity is partly formed through discourses, which means
A. elite bodies of knowledged
B. French literary theories
C. working-class cultural norms
D. discussions within Greek edicts
• The following statements are all valid, except for
• A. sexuality is partly a social construction
O B. sexuality is partly biological
• C. sexuality is fluid
• D. sexuality is stagnant
The Early Christian period prized celibacy because
O A. it was sanctioned form of birth control that saved women's lives
O B. it compelled men and women to focus on serving God instead of each other
O C. helped prevent the spread of : exually transmitted diseases
D. O D. the Testament asserts the supremacy of celibacy
The Victorian period encouraged intimacy among women by
O A. stigmatizing pre-marital sexual relations between women and men
© B. embracing sexual activity between women
O C. declaring the existence of a lesbian identity
D. instituting more liberal divorce laws
In the Victorian period, the Cult of True Womanhood was characterized by four traits:
A. domesticity, piety, purity, morality
O B. motherhood, piety, kindness, beauty
O c. domesticity, piety, purity, submissiveness
O D. domesticity, motherhood, piety, submissiveness
The Renaissance period saw a return to many of the values and customs of
A. Biblical times
B. Ancient Greece
C. The Early Christian period
D. The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment era discouraged
O A. elitism
O B. democracy
O C. secularism
© D. autonomy
In Ancient Greece, the institution of marriage among free men helped reinforce patriarchy because it
A. produced the next generation of statesmen
B. forced wives to hand over their wages to husbands
c. encouraged male violence at the symposium
D. moved elderly women in with their sons' families
The story of Adam and Eve has long been viewed as exemplifying
A A. the power of nature
B. the wickedness of woman
O c. the violence of man
O D. the empathy of God
In the mid nineteenth century, a Boston marriage was
A. a sudden marriage between a man and his pregnant lover
B. an elaborate wedding between an educated man and woman
c. a long-term cohabitation between two educated women
D. a short-term affair between women who met at boarding school
In the medieval period, the Church introduced a penance system for sinful sexual behaviour as a reaction to
O A. the permissiveness of courtly love
B. B. the rise of incest and bestiality reported in confessionals HALLIE DID B
c. public homosexual displays **?
D D. the increasing misconduct of priests
Same-sex relationships between males in Ancient Greece were accepted if
A. the relationship was between two adult men
B. the relationship existed alongside traditional marriage
c. the relationship focused exclusively on love
D. the relationship was long-lasting
The popularity of female prescriptive literature in the Victorian period largely reflects
A. the extent to which women followed its advice
B. the frequency with which women read it.
C. the desire by women to know predominant gender ideologies ***brandon did this ****
D. the consumer power of Victorian middle-class women
In the Victorian period, the passionless doctrine benefitted middle-class women because it
A. served as a kind of birth control, saving them from dangerous childbirth
B. declared that they would get 3 rest-days per month from sex
• C. facilitated their greater attention and service to God
O D. increased their role in the public sphere
According to feminists, the story of Adam and Eve has been erroneously used to justify all of the
following, except
A. heterosexuality
B. patriarchy
C. procreation
D. capitalism
For white, middle-class, Victorian wives, "passionless" precluded the notion of
A. love**** Maybe
B. respectability
C. lust
D. motherhood
The Cult of Virginity created conflict between daughters and their parents mainly because
O A. daughters had to move away from home
O B. daughters became celebrities
C C. daughters rejected the economic benefits of marriage
O D. daughters denied their parents the pleasure of grandchildren
The witchcraze in the Renaissance period targeted the following women, except for
A. women without men
B. menopausal women
C. midwives
D. churchgoing women
The witchcraze in the Renaissance period mostly targeted
O A. married prostitutes
O B. spinsters and widows
O C. homosexual men
O D. women in convents
The 1978 article "The Female World of Love and Ritual" by historian Carroll Smith- Rosenberg was revolutionary because it
A. focused on the Victorian private sphere, not the public sphere
B. conceptualized the Victorian private sphere as positive, not oppressive, for women
C. perceived Victorian middle-class men as loving, not cruel, toward women
D. asserted the existence, not the invisibility, of a Victorian lesbian identity
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In the medieval period, courtly love was revolutionary because it
O A. advocated for polygamy
B. introduced the idea of female heirs to the throne
O C. popularized the notion that women should be cherished
O D. called for the end of the institution of marriage
In the Enlightenment era, the two-sex model rejected the idea of
O A. distinct physiology between men and women
• B. distinct sexual desire between men and women
•C. distinct social roles between men and women
O D. distinct public roles between men and women
The Enlightenment used science to justify
i female weakness
O B. male/female sameness
O C. male/female equality
O D. female intelligence
Some early Christian theologians perceived Eve eating the apple in the Book of Genesis as
O A. a metaphor for immoral sexual relations
B. an act of feminist rebellion
C.a sign of her devotion to God
O D. a symbol of her desire for children
The Enlightenment promoted
A. materialism
B. reason
C. religion
D. feminism
In the nineteenth century, the Cult of True Womanhood was difficult to achieve for many black slave women because
A. they were denied its race and class privilege
B. they did not aspire to middle-class respectability
C. they wanted to perform paid outdoor labour
D. slavery legally prohibited the Cult of True Womanhood
The Ideology of Separate Spheres promoted female friendships because
O A. women attended orgies while their men were at work
O B. women inhabited a nurturing female-centred space
O C. women bonded with their working-class maids
O D. women shared details about their private sexual troubles
"Compulsory heterosexuality" is the idea that
A. society overtly and covertly encourages heterosexuality****** B. society promotes sexual relationships
C. society seeks a totalitarian heterosexual state
D. society ignores all sexual identities except for heterosexuality
Nancy Cott, in her pioneering 1978 aRticle about Victorian American female passionlessness, focuses her investigation on
A. New England
B. the Midwest
C. the deep south
D. the Carolinas