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Assignment:
Answer the following questions according to the readings:
1. What are the attitudes and/or ideologies (system of ideas, beliefs, and principles that guide the social, cultural, political and economic functioning of society) that tend to perpetuate gender inequalities in the Unites States and worldwide?
2. How does the third wave of the feminist movement differs from the first and the second?
According to the reading, He and She by Yuval Harari, answer the following questions.
3. How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myth?
4. What Harari means by saying that, "Since myths, rather than biology, define the roles, right and duties of men and women, the meaning of "manhood' and 'womanhood' have varied immensely from one society to another.
5. Summarize Harari's discussion of the theories of muscle power, aggression, and patriarchal genes to explain male dominance in society.
According to the video, Michael Kimmel: The guy's guide to feminism, answer the following questions.
6. Why do so many men resist gender equality?