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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were once safe and embedded in kinship relations, church, and community according to the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?

2. What consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group?

3. What grew and produced tension between generations in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

4. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control" means to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses?

5. The sexual revolution began in what decade?

Short Essay Questions

1. What innovations does the author describe in the sexual behaviors of youth between World War I and the sexual revolution in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

2. How did American youth come to define themselves after World War II? What tensions did this cause?

3. How did the sexual revolution change the currency of courtship?

4. How do American youth feel about the lack of clarity in the rules of contemporary dating according to the author in the Epilogue?

5. How does the author describe the sexual behavior of youth in the early twentieth century in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

6. How was the crisis of femininity treated in mid-twentieth century America?

7. What threatened gender identity in the twentieth century, according to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity"?

8. What does the author note about the past twenty-five years in her Epilogue?

9. What metaphors have replaced the metaphors of economy, according to the author in the Epilogue?

10. How were gender roles defined in the 1950s? How long was this view dominant in American society?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define and discuss gender identity and its evolution in the past 100 years. How have “traditional” masculine and feminine roles been defined? When did these begin to change? What impact did those changes have on the culture of courtship?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the rise in American youth culture and the association of youth culture with sexual experimentation. How and when did the sexual behavior of youth begin to evolve? What led to this change? How was the media involved in this evolution?

Essay Topic 3

The sexual exploitation of women within the dating system in the twentieth century in America. How did the media encourage the sexual exploitation of women? Can this still be seen in the media and advertising today? What is the underlying message in such contemporary ads such as beer ads which depict women as sexual commodities?

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