In Brazil, gender is determined by:

Under the sex/gender system, men universally perform the kinds of tasks that:

The study of gender is basically the study of how two spheres shape each other. What are the two spheres?

Prison rape is usually about power, and a man who commits a homosexual act within prison:

Why do parents and surgeons push to assign a sex to a genitally ambiguous child?

Surgeons today recommend prompt surgery to make intersex children conform to an ideal of normal genitalia. About 90 percent of these surgeries:

What term best describes a behavior or attitude where a person's sex is the basis for prejudicial discrimination and where sex may matter more than a person's performance or merit?

What you do in the social world should be a direct result of who you are in the natural world. This statement refers to:

What term refers to the invisible barriers women face when they enter more prestigious corporate worlds?

One of the key economic factors that continue to benefit men in work in a post-industrial is their biological advantages in terms of physical size and strength

In the one-sex model, it was believed that both a man's and a woman's orgasm were required for conception. When the two-sex model gained momentum, women and men were viewed as radically different creatures, and the female orgasm became viewed as:

Opponents of gay and lesbian couplings claim that homosexuality is "unnatural" because they believe sex should only be about:

In agrarian societies, people no longer have to move continually in search of food and they can acquire a surplus. Men gain control over the disposition of the surplus and the kinship system, and this control serves men's interests.

T of F? At birth, male and female infants are distinguished by secondary sex characteristics: the genitalia used in the reproductive process

An essentialist would argue all of the following for why women outnumber men in occupations that involve caring EXCEPT:

Which theoretical perspective assumed that every society had certain structures that existed to fulfill some set of necessary functions?

Similar to hegemonic masculinity, social problems that exist within a dominant group in a society tend to be:

If we apply our sociological imaginations to sex, gender, and sexuality, we might argue that:

T or F? In regard to female dominated jobs, sociologists have found that only men suffer an economic penalty when they work in jobs that employ mostly women.

The basic idea behind feminism is that women and men should be: