Humanities Homework Help

1. What are examples of gender role messages and age-related messaging that negatively impacts our view of elderly sexuality and relationships?

2. What do we mean by the term transgender, and what are some social and psychological ways people can provide support to transgender people?

3. What does it mean to be intersex, and how is that different than being transgender?

4. Patricia Hill Collins discusses interlocking oppression in her book Black Feminist Thought, what is this concept, and why is it important for everyone, not just Black women?

5. How is queer theory different than just studying the lives of LGBTQ people?

6. What is gender performativity, is it the same thing as being a drag queen or king and getting on stage? why/why not?

7. Why might someone not leave an abusive (sexually or otherwise) relationship?

8. Do men and women engage in developing romance and intimacy in the same way, why/why not? Also, make sure your answer covers whether these differences/similarities are due to biology or something else.

9. From your reading by Niobe Way on “Emotionless Boys” and resistance, what were some of the main, or most important, findings that she discusses from her work?