Chapter eleven: Gender and sexuality Flashcards
Principally a biological term, usually expressed as female or male
Sex
A cultural term connected to societal definitions or expected behaviors, attitudes, and personalities
Gender
Person born with reproductive anatomy that does not fit male or female
Intersex
An individual’s gender identity or gender performances are different from the gender assigned to them when born
Transgender
An individual who does not identify with any gender
Agender
Identities can change based on the context individuals find themselves in
Gender fluid
Example of a stereotypes of male heterosexuality and consumption; these include men who wear large beards and flannel
Lumbersexual
Dominant form/ideal of masculinity
Hegemonic masculinity
Socially constructed ideas about “modern womanhood
Emphasized femininity
A set of socially constructed ideas about “model womanhood” organized around accommodating the interests of men and the patriarchy
Subordinate heterosexual femininity
Concept of the existence of strictly two genders: male and female
Gender binary
A person’s internal sense of gender
Gender identity
Members of North American Native and First Nations tribes socially seen as distinct; not categorized as male or female or any similar categories
Two-spirit individuals
Formed around the private, domestic sphere
Cult of domesticity
Cleaning, making meals for family, childcare
Second-shift labor
The ways in which people think about, and behave toward, themselves and other sexual beings
Sexuality
Internal sense of one’s sexual self
Sexual identity
Belief that heterosexuality the superior orientation
Heterosexism
Fear of seeming as gay, fear of gay people or anything associated with homosexuality
Homophobia
Socialization leads to culturally created, shared, reinforced norms that guide gender behavior
Sexual scripts
A commercial sex act that includes force, fraud, or coercion and transporting and obtaining a person for sexual acts
Sex trafficking
People traveling from primarily the Global North to the Global South (developing countries) for the sole purpose of buying sex from males, females, children
Sex tourism
