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What is the general problem that Quinn identifies in her article on masculinity and sexual harassment to explain why sexual harassment occurs?
What two factors does Quinn isolate as contributing to the continuation of sexual harassment in professional and work institutions?
How does gender explain the changing demographics of the migration of Mexican workers to the US? What changed?

Why does Bettie, the author of “Women Without Class,” suggest that the young women she “hangs out” with are dissident feminists?
With reference to the NPR radio podcast, and Hollinbaugh’s article “Queers without Money” Explain why many in the US associate queer or gay persons with being wealthy.
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Hondagneau-Sotelo describes domestic workers in the US and other countries as “pairs of arms” disembodied and dislocated from their families and communities. What is the author referring to, and what are the impacts of this status? Give at least two examples from the reading to support your answer.
Using the Socialist Feminist perspective, analyze how the large number of women entering the US workforce in recent decades and gendered attitudes towards household work shape the migration patterns of Mexicans.

 

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Another way that these gender stereotypes are reconstructed are during drug robberies. In the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography article Damn, Yo-Who’s That Girl: An Ethnographic Analysis of Masculinity in Drug Robberies, Dr. Randol Contreras (2008) examines the role of women in the commission of drug robberies. The standard practice is for women to use their sexuality to lure drug dealers into a trap. Usually they get them secluded and then the men ambush and rob them. The women are not given an honest cut, and are not viewed as equals with the men. The robbers know that the drug dealer will fall for the bait because he has to prove he is a real “man” by attempting to sleep with the girl. This shows that drug robbers know the stereotypes, take advantage of them, and yet internalize them, all at once. They don’t see the girls as equals, they don’t think they are smart enough to earn a real cut.

It is also just as imperative to the notion of understanding the complexities of crime to look at the various factors involved in a person’s social identity. Intersectionality examines crime while taking into account gender, class, and race. It takes into account the various power structures that a person has to deal with, and the combination of these factors gives their “social location”. African American females will face different challenges than African American males or Hispanic females. Wealth will change how someone has to interact with the world around them. These are inescapable facts that must be taken into account when studying crime.

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