Gender Flashcards
What is sex?
The biological and anatomical differences distinguishing females from males.
What is Gender?
Social expectations about behavior regarded as appropriate for the members of each sex.
What are Gender Roles?
They are socially constructed definitions of socially appropriate behavior for each sex.
What are gender identities?
Gender identity is an individual’s self-conception as male or female, or as some combination of male and female, or as someone outside those categories altogether.
What is Gender Binary?
Gender Binary is the classification of sex and gender into two discrete, opposite, and non-overlapping forms of masculine and feminine.
What is biological essentialism?
a process in which biological influences precede cultural influences and set predetermined limits to the effects of culture
What is Cisgender?
Individuals whose gender identity matches his or her biological sex.
What is Transgender?
A person who identifies or expresses a gender identity that differs from their sex at birth.
What is Non-Binary gender?
Non-binary is a gender identity that does not fit squarely into the male-female gender binary classification.
