Gender Flashcards
1
Q
How are gender and sex similar
A
- both socially constructed interpretations of biology
- concerned with reproductive capacities
- newborn subjected to both without consent at first
- over time, one may have increased desire to change their assigned sex or gender
2
Q
Gender
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- how the world and individuals interprets assigned sex
- applied more broadly than sex
3
Q
Gender varies by
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culture, time period, socioeconomic position
4
Q
sex assignment
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activates gender
5
Q
socialization
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various ways to force someone into the gender binary (external pressures, institutions, discourses, etc)
6
Q
performativity
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enacting social norms and values by routinely repeating them (then appearing natural)
- how we do our gender
7
Q
embodiment
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- feeling gender in our bodies
- shaping sensations, emotions, movements, size, form
8
Q
gender identity
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self-placement in the system
- matching embodied sense of gender with the existing classifications of our society
9
Q
gender expression
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conscious act of using clothing, behavior, mannerisms to communicate a gender
