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Group Exercise: 30R, section 7

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Questions for discussion:
1. How does the concept of “doing gender” shift the emphasis from the internal to the interactional and institutional? [West & Zimmerman]
2. How are sex, sex category, and gender related? [West & Zimmerman]
3. Why do we presume that gender identity (sex category) and biological sex are consistent? [West & Zimmerman]
4. How are situated and master identities different? [West & Zimmerman]
5. What is the “if/can” test of gender in everyday life? [West & Zimmerman]
6. What is the “moral status” of the gender binary? [West & Zimmerman]

7. How do stereotypes disguise social relations? [Collins]
8. How does binary thinking factor into the ideology of domination? [Collins]
9. What are the four virtues of traditional “true womanhood”? [Collins]
10. How does the “mammy” controlling image function? [Collins]
11. How does the “black matriarch” controlling image function? [Collins]
12. What role does the Black church play in reproducing the subordination of Black women? [Collins]

Each group will get one question from each section.