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Question 1: What are some examples of "doing gender"?
Question 2: Using the !Kung of the Kalahari Desert, the bacha posh in Afghanistan, the hijras in India, the Native American berdache, the guevedoches in the Dominican Republic, and the nádleehí in Navajo culture as support, discuss how gender can be seen as a social construction.
Question 3: What are the underlying roots of contemporary gender inequality?
Question 4: What is gender policing, and how does this impact boys and men?
Question 5: What are some consequences of the sexual objectification of women's bodies in the advertising media? How do you think these trends might impact how women are viewed and treated in broader society? In the workplace? In government and politics? In their intimate relationships?
Question 6: What is the "tough guise" according to the Week 3 documentary? How is it related to hypermasculinity?
Question 7: In Hossain's (1905) Sultana's Dream, what happens when the gender roles in the imaginary Indian society get reversed?