Chapter 5: Gender Flashcards
What was the women’s movement?
An organized effort in the 20th century to obtain greater rights and opportunities for women.
What is passionate manhood?
Anthony Rotundo’s term for the norm of manhood in the 20th-century United States, in which self-expression and self-enjoyment replaced self-control and self-denial as the paramount virtues young males should learn in the course of becoming a man.
What is marianismo?
It is the belief, common in Catholic cultures, that females should emulate the Virgin Mary by being submissive and self-denying.
What is self-socialization?
the way that children seek to maintain consistency between the norms they have learned about gender and their behavior.
What are transsexuals?
People who experience a fundamental mismatch between their gender and their sex.
What is a stereotype?
A belief that others posses certain characteristics simply as a result of being a member of a particular group.
What is hymen?
The thin membrane inside a girl’s vagina that is usually broken during her first sexual intercourse experience.
What is self-made manhood?
Anthony Rotundo’s term for the norm of manhood in 19th century America, in which males were increasingly expected to become independent from their families in adolescence and emerging adulthood as part of becoming a man.
What are expressive traits?
Personality characteristics such as gentle and yielding, more often ascribed to females, emphasizing emotions and relationships.
What is androgyny?
Combination of male and female personality traits.
What is cognitive-development theory of gender?
Kohlberg’s theory, this is based on Piaget’s ideas about cognitive development, asserting that gender is a fundamental way of organizing ideas.
What is communal manhood?
Anthony Rotundo’s term for the norm of manhood in 17th and 18th century colonial America, in which the focus of gender expectations for adolescent boys was on preparing to assume adult male role responsibilities in work and marriage.
What is differential gender socialization?
term of socializing males and females according to different expectations about what attitudes and behavior are appropriate to each gender.
What is gender identity?
Children’s understanding of themselves as being either male or female, this would happen when reaching age 3.
What is gender intensification hypothesis?
Hypothesis that psychological and behavioral differences between males and females become more pronounced at adolescence because of intensified socialization pressures to conform to culturally prescribed gender roles.
