Gender

Question 1

Sex

Answer 1

Assigned at birth - external (visual) genitalia

Question 2

Gender

Answer 2

The characteristics of how a society identifies women, men, girls and boys. This is a cultural process including norms & values behaviours and roles associated with being a woman, man, girl or boy, as well as relationships with each other

Question 3

Feminist anthropology

Answer 3

Arose in the 1960-70s as a reaction to how anthropology has been solely focusing on men, neglecting 50% of the world’s population

Question 4

Hegemonic masculinity

Answer 4

Developed by Raewynn Connell. Recognizes multiple masculinities that vary across time, society, culture, and the individual. It legitimizes men’s dominant position in society and justifies the subordination of women and other marginalized ways of being a man. Proposes to explain how and why men maintain dominant social roles over women, and other gender identities, which are perceived as “feminine” in a given society.

Question 5

Performativity

Answer 5

Developed by Judith Butler. The idea of gender is an act, or a series of repetitive acts. People learn to behave in particular ways to fit into society.

Question 6

Third feminist wave

Answer 6

From the 1990s onwards - dedicated to supporting groups and individuals working towards gender, racial, economic, and social justice. Women’s struggle for equality was taken as a conceptual model for overcoming suppression of any kind: gender, race, colonialism, ecology, labour, etc. Strong link with societal movements, such as #metoo

Question 7

Cisgender

Answer 7

When gender identity / self-understanding corresponds with the assigned sex at birth

Question 8

Transgender

Answer 8

When gender identity does not correspond with the sex registered for them at birth

Question 9

Intersex

Answer 9

Refers to the gonads, many individuals with intersex variations have an assigned sex and gender identity that differs from gonadal female sex (ovary) and sex male (testes) gonad