Chapter 9 - Gender Flashcards
Sexual Dimorphism
Marked differences in male and female biology besides the primary and secondary sexual features
Gender
Socially and culturally ways that males and females are expected to behave
Gender Roles
Tasks and activities that a cultural assigns to the sexes
Gender Stereotypes
Oversimplified, strongly held ideas of characteristics of men and women
Gender Stratification
Unequal distribution of rewards between men and women, reflecting different positions in a social hierarchy
Peggy Sanday
Gender stratification decreases when men and women made roughly equal contributions to subsistence
Domestic-Public Dichotomy
Strong differentiation between home and the outside world
Matrilineal Descent
People join mother’s group at birth
Ex. Minangkabau
Matriarchy
Women are the center, origin, and foundation of the social order
Patrilineal-Patrilocal Complex
Male supremacy is based on patrilineality, patrilocality, and warfare
Ex. Papau New Guinea
Patrilineal Descent
Descent traced through men
Patriarchy
Political system ruled by men in which women have inferior social and political status
Margolis
Gendered work, attitudes, and beliefs have varied in response to US economic needs
Transgender
Denoting or relating to a person whose sense of person identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex
Transsexual
Someone has an evident sex, but feels as if he or she belongs to the other sex and is therefore ready to undergo a medical intervention altering his or her natural sex
