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What is sex?

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Biologically rooted; describes our physical bodies whereby we distinguish between male and female.

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What is sex categorized based on?

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Categorized based on binaries implying diametrical opposites “opposite sex”

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What is gender?

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Socially constructed characteristics assoc. with girls and boys, men and women, masculinity and femininity

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What does gender, like sex, suggest?

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Binary opposition

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What are intersected individuals?

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Born with ambiguous genitalia

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What is transgender used as an umbrella term for?

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Those who do not fit into normative constructions of sex and gender?

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What are transsexual individuals?

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Used to encompass those who undergo sex reassignment (realignment).

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What are gender relations?

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Organizing principles that shape and order interactions between, as well as the relative social importance of, women and men

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___is socially constructed

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Gender

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What are the two culturally dominant forms of masculinity and femininity?

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Hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity

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What is hegemonic masculinity?

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Ideal of masculinity that men are supposed to strive to achieve. Requires men to be successful, capable,and reliable.

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What is hegemonic masculinity tied to?

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Heterosexuality

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What is emphasized femininity?

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Based on women’s compliance with their subordination to men. Requires women to be supportive, enthusiastic, and sexually attractive.

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How are women compliant with their subordination men?

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Women shying away from physical labour

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When do gender expectations begin?

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At birth

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___practices are deeply gendered.

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Child-rearing

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Parents spend more time talking to___while leaving___alone; push their___more often than___.

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  • girls
  • boys
  • sons
  • daughters
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What is an example of families reproducing gender?

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Gendered divisions of household labour

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How does education reproduce gender?

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hidden curriculum

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What is the hidden curriculum teach girls?

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Girls learn that they are not as important as boys.

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Teachers interact with___more than___in classroom.

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  • boys

- girls

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Teachers praise___for being congenial and neat while___praised for intellectual quality.

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  • girls

- boys

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What is the chilly climate refer to?

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Women’s experiences on university campuses differ from those of men.

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How does the media play into reproducing gender?

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Gender division reflected in and reinforced by all forms of media.

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What are some examples of television shows that reproduce gender?

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Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, Lipstick Jungle

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What are some examples of stereotypical reproductions of gender in television and media?

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  • All women are beautiful, heterosexual, and with a few exceptions, leading women are white
  • Black men often tend to be portrayed as frightening, scary characters
  • Reality television glorifies competitive cutthroat behaviour
  • Commercials
  • Talk shows
  • Female politicians: focused on their looks and what they are wearing
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Described how we reproduce our gendered bodies?

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How we present our bodies, efforts to shape them, and how w interpret others’ bodies are all accomplished socially.

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What are many television shows/networks directed at?

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Helping individual achieve beauty ideals

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What has become of plastic surgery? What are the top surgeries? Between what age range of women does the highest proportion of plastic surgery occur?

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  • Normalized
  • Top surgeries are liposuction, rhinoplasty, eye lifts
  • Highest proportion women between 35 and 50
30
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What has their been a dramatic increase in with gender and work?

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Dramatic increase in the number of employed women

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Described the gendered labour force? Wha tar occupations segregated into?

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Occupations segregated into men’s and women’s jobs

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Women hold___lower-paying jobs than men.

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more

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___proportion of part-time workers (increase of___% between 1976 and 2000)

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  • Greater

- 100

34
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Women represent___%of part-time workers?

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70

35
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Women who work in which dominated industries are more likely to never marry or to remain childless than women in other occupations?

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Male dominated industries

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In 2002 women working full-time earned an average of___while employed men working in the same schedule earned___.

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  • $36 000

- $50 000

37
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By 2008, women working full-time earned on average___% of what men earned.

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75

38
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Gap is greater for___educated women who earned___% of what men earned.

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  • university

- 68

39
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What are gender, class, and race all function as mechanisms for producing?

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Social inequality

40
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Which is one of the most disadvantaged groups of people?

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Racialized women

41
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What must minority women confront?

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Racism, ethnocentrism, classism, and sexism

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What is the intersectional approach key to understanding?

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The complex experiences of how relations of gender, race, and social class work together to position some individuals as privileged and others as disadvantages.

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What does intersectionality acknowledge?

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The complexity and messiness of reality

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How do functionalists approach gender?

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Women demean preform separate, specialized, and complimentary roles to maintain cohesiveness. Well-defined roles reduce confusion and conflict regarding gender expectations.

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What are the two types of gender roles for functionalist theory?

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Instrumental and expressive roles

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What does conflict theory focus on with gender?

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Focus on examining gender differences in access to and control of scarce resources.

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What type of family form does conflict theory believe in?

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Nuclear family form, monogamous marriage, and men’s control of women’s sexuality emerged from need to ensure paternity.

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How does symbolic interactionism approach gender?

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-Interested in the meanings of male and female an of masculinity and femininity

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What sociological approach looks at “doing” gender?

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Symbolic interactionism

50
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What does symbolic interactionism believe social institutions teach?

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Gender-related behaviours

51
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What is symbolic interactionism based on?

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Operant conditioning

52
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What does feminist theory believe about gender?

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Gender is socially constructed

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What does feminist theory attempt to identify with gender?

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Attempt to identify the ways in which institutionalized and internalized norms limit women’s behaviours and opportunities.

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Who does post-structuralist theory draw on the work of with gender?

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Michele Foucault

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What does post-structuralist theory believe about gender?

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Masculinity, femininity, and even sex itself are socially and discursively constructed.

56
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What does Judith Butler (post-structuralist theory) believe about gender (3 things)?

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  • Gender cannot be thought of as having some essential basis
  • No authentic femininity and masculinity rooted in male and female bodies
  • Gender is a performance
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What does Judith Butler want to do away with and promote?

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  • Do away with either a masculine or feminine idea

- Promote fluidity of gender

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