Exam 2 - Ch. 8 Flashcards
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Gender Studies
Research into the cultural construction of masculinity and femininity across cultures as flexible, complex, and historically and culturally constructed categories.
Sex
The observable physical differences between male and female, especially biological expressions related to human reproduction.
Gender
The expectations of thought and behavior that each culture assigns to people of different sexes.
Sexual Dimorphism
The phenotypic differences between males and females of the same species.
Cultural construction of gender
The ways humans learn to behave as a man or woman and to recognize behaviors as masculine and feminine within their cultural context.
Gender Performance
The way gender identity is expressed through action.
Intersexuals
Individuals who have some combination of male and female genitalia, gonads and chromosomes.
Transgendered
A gender identity or performance that does not fit with cultural norms related to one’s assigned sex at birth.
8 Millennial Development Goals designed to eliminate the most extreme forms of global proverb and inequality.
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Achieve universal primary education
- Promote gender equality and empower women
- Reduce child mortality
- Improve maternal health.
- Combat HIVS/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases.
- Ensure environmental sustainability
- Develop a global partnership for development.
Gender Stratification
An unequal distribution of power in which gender shapes who has access to a group’s resources, opportunities, right and privileges.
Gender Stereotype
A preconceived notion about the attributes of differences between and popper roles for men and women in a culture.
Gender Ideology
A set of culture ideas, usually stereotypical, about the essential character of different genders that functions to promote and justify gender stratification.
Gender Violence
Forms of violence shaped by the gender identities of the people involved.
Structural Gender Violence
Gendered societal patterns of unequal access to wealth, power and basic resources such as food, shelter and health care that differentially affect some in particular.
