What is sex?

Related Mcqs:

1. The ‘Women in Black’ are:

   A. a group of Israeli women demonstrating for Palestinian women.
   B. a group of Israeli women demonstrating against Palestinian Women
   C. a group of Palestinian demonstrating against Israeli women
   D. None

2. Which of the following are impacts of globalization on women? i.Cut backs in state services affect women’s health and employment opportunities ii.Globalization results in the feminization of poverty iii.The changing international division of labour is gendered

   A. i
   B. ii, iii
   C. i, ii, iii
   D. i, ii

3. What is meant by the ‘export of women’?

   A. Women/girls come from rural areas into towns or cities to provide gendered services
   B. An increased global flow of women
   C. Prostitution and mail order brides
   D. All of the above

4. What is meant by ‘minimization of labour’?

   A. Recognizing the increase in global demand for women as cheap labour and care
   B. Paid and unpaid reproductive labour and care
   C. Lowering standards for labour worldwide
   D. a and b

5. What does sexuality constitute?

   A. Heterosexuality
   B. Homosexuality
   C. Multiple and/or shifting sexualities
   D. All of the above

6. What is gender?

   A. Male or female
   B. A social construction of what it means to be male or female
   C. Biological difference
   D. All of the above

7. Feminist theorists would see as progress:

   A. The establishment of the UN Gender Development Index
   B. The election of US Speaker Nancy Pelosi
   C. The incorporation of “gender mainstreaming” into policy discourse
   D. All of the options given are correct, but it depends on which feminist theory you pick

8. Grameen Bank:

   A. Empowers women through microcredit loans to facilitate small-scale economic development
   B. Is gender-blind in its policies
   C. Focuses its investment lending on women
   D. a and c

9. The genderning of world politics is seen in:

   A. Prostitution and human trafficking
   B. Civil wars and refugee flows
   C. Trade and development
   D. All of the options given are correct

10. The idea of the gender-sensitive lens came from the feminist theorist:

    A. Ticker
    B. Enloe
    C. Peterson and Runyan
    D. None of the options given is correct