Chapter 12 Gender, Sex, And Sexuality

Question 1

Gender

Answer 1

Cultural expectations of how males and females should behave

Question 2

Gender/sex system

Answer 2

The ideas and social patterns a society uses to organize males, females, and those who don’t fit either category

Question 3

Sexually demorphic

Answer 3

A characteristic of a species, in which males and females have different sexual forms

Question 4

Intersex

Answer 4

Individuals who exhibit sexual organs and functions somewhere between male and female elements, often including elements of both

Question 5

Masculinity

Answer 5

The ideas and practices of manhood

Question 6

Gender variances

Answer 6

Expressions of sex and gender that diverged from the male and female norms that dominate in most societies

Question 7

Third genders

Answer 7

Situations found in many societies that acknowledge three or more categories of gender or sex

Question 8

Transgender

Answer 8

Refers to someone to whom society assigns one gender who does not perform as that gender but has taken either permanent or temporary steps to identify as another gender

Question 9

Sex

Answer 9

The reproductive forms and functions of the body