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Sas 301: Contemporary Gender Issues Question Paper

Sas 301: Contemporary Gender Issues

Course:Bachelor Of Arts

Institution: Moi University question papers

Exam Year:2016

SAS 301: CONTEMPORARY GENDER ISSUES-EXAMINATION
ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/2016-FIRST SEMESTER
(MAIN CAMPUS-1200)
Answer Four Questions only
1. ‘Sex is to nature as gender is to culture’. Use appropriate examples to illustrate this contention. How has gender been used as a principle in organizing individuals’ social lives?
2. Discuss the functionalist views of George Peter Murdoch and Talcott-parsons on gender-role differentiations. What is your critique on both theorists?
3. According to Ernestine Friedl (1975), men are dominant because they control the exchange of valued goods beyond the family group. What observations led Friedl to this conclusion? Give practical examples to support this line of thinking.
4. A familiar form of gender discrimination involves the policy of exclusion and/ or seclusion of women from the general society. Use any example in Kenyan ethnic and religious group(s) to show how this may be exercised.
5. What reasons are advanced for practicing FGM by communities that carry out this vice? What are the challenges posed in eradicating it?
6. a) What are Marie Stopes’s ideas on marital rape?
b) What characterizes the occurrence of marital rape, and what hurdles exists in overcoming this form of sexual violation in Kenya today?
7. a) What explanations does Sherry Ortener (1974) provide for the “universal devaluation” of the female sex?
b) Using menstruation as a case in point , demonstrate how societies/ cultures use this to ‘devalue’ womankind.
8. a) What is World Health Organization’s (2006) definition of sexuality?
b) Using relevant citations, would you consider LGTI’s as dysfunctional, or are they part of normal sexual variations?

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