Thinking Sex Quizzes

Thinking Sex Quiz #1

1 With which university is Rubin affiliated?
Columbia

Princeton

California

Michigan
2 What caused a rift in 1980s feminism?
The drug wars

The civil rights movement

The sex wars

The equal rights amendment
3 What group did Rubin help start a chapter of at Michigan?
Feminists United

Radicalesbians

Queers and Allies

National Association of Women
4 What was the name of Rubin’s influential 1975 essay?
Rape and Feminism

The Traffic in Women

The History of Patriarchy

The Gender System
5 Where did Rubin do her fieldwork?
Montreal

New York

Los Angeles

San Francisco
6 What subculture did Rubin study?
The women's movement

The young professional culture

The gay leather culture

The hippie culture
7 Which conference is often credited as a touchstone of the sex wars?
The Harvard Conference on Gender

The Duke Conference on Queerness

The Barnard Conference on Sexuality

The Columbia Conference on Feminism
8 When was “Thinking Sex” published?
1976

1984

1991

1990
9 What did the feminists Rubin opposed in the sex wars target?
Liberation

Religion

Pornography

Capitalism
10 Who published The History of Sexuality?
Michel Foucault

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Judith Butler

Catherine MacKinnon
11 The History of Sexuality is associated with which of the following concepts?
Gender

Pornography

Science

Speciation
12 “Benign” most nearly means which of the following?
Hateful

Resigned

Harmless

Dangerous
13 Which location is associated with the “Save Our Children” campaign?
Barnard

Dade County

San Francisco

Michigan
14 What is the symbol Rubin uses to discuss sexual hierarchy?
Mountains

Charmed Circle

Adam and Eve

Dominos
15 Who was a victim of witch-hunts in the 1950s?
Satanists

Women

Children

Homosexuals
16 Which group of people is sometimes seen as needing protection during times of sexual panic?
Migrants

The elderly

Children

Adults
17 Essentialism is the opposite of …
Expediency

Externalism

Associationalism

Constructivism
18 The creation of homosexuality as an identity is associated with which concept?
Science

New Age

Childhood

Speciation
19 What is an example of extralegal oppression?
The Constitution

Familial coercion

State statues

Local ordinances
20 Complete the sentence: “Sex is a ___________ of oppression.”
Vector

Solution

Disaster

Means
21 Each of the following is an example of a sexual enclave except:
Dade County

The Castro

East Lakeview

Greenwich Village
22 Which of the following is an example of a current moral panic, at the time of Rubin's writing?
Marriage

Reproduction

AIDS

Intercourse
23 Feminism is primarily the study of what?
Patriarchy

Gender oppression

Sexuality

Racial oppression
24 What is the simile Rubin uses to describe a sexual panic?
A natural disaster

A mob

A kingdom

A ladder
25 What is an example of sexual imagery that was used to drum up social panic?
S&M pornography

Obscenity

Pornography laws

AIDS

How does Rubin present the notion of sexual hierarchy in the book?

The major theme of “Thinking Sex” is that American society always organizes sexual acts into a hierarchy. That means it values and legitimizes some sex, usually heterosexual intercourse in marriage. Any sex that is different than this is lower in...

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