Instructions: Answer all six of the following questions to the best of your ability. Refer to the course readings and videos in your answers to help you demonstrate your point. Proofread your answers before submitting them to make sure you answered the question fully and so that there aren’t typos that might change the meaning of what you are trying to convey.

Please number your answers so it is clear which question you are addressing. All of your answers can be in ONE post that is titled “[your full name] Midterm” and given the category “Midterm.” There is no required length for your answers, but you should be sure to answer each question fully. I am guessing it would take me 100 – 250 words to answer each question fully, or at least six sentences.

MIDTERM POSTS ARE DUE BY WEDNESDAY, 10/13 AT MIDNIGHT.

Question 1: How do systems of privilege and oppression function in our society? How do we combat these systems?

Question 2: What is the concept of intersectionality and why is it important in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies?

Question 3: Why is it important to recognize patriarchy as a system and not an individual identity?

Question 4: How is gender constructed and learned in our society? How do we perform gender?

Question 5: What is the difference between sex and gender? How are sex and gender conflated (converged and confused) within our culture?

Question 6: What is a double bind? How do double binds function within our society?