Gender and Sex Flashcards
Exam 3
What is sex?
Biological differences used to distinguish between males/ females
What does gender denote?
Social position built around normative sex categories
Socially constructed
What is sexuality?
Refers to desire, sexual preferences, sexual identity, and behavior
How have health researchers historically discussed gender and sex?
As a binary; if XX, then gender is feminine and vice versa
Explain the concept of “giving sex.”
Alterating external phenotype or hormones to fit one sex or another
____ establishes patterns of expectations for people and orders our daily lives
gender
Are non-binary and intersex the same thing?
No, non-binary refers to gender and intersex to sex
Feminism
Social movement for understanding that gender is an organizing principle in society; EVERYONE should be treated equally
Adresses gender-based inequalities
What is second-wave feminism?
Questioning the root of patriarchy and the mechanisms
Sex Role Theory
Men and women perform their sex roles as breadwinners and wives/mothers bc that is the ideal arrangement for reproduction
Sex/Gender system challenged the assumption that…
assumption that bc women’;s subordination was everywhere, it must be fulfilling a societal function
Sex/Gender system believes that…
Women were objects to trade; reproduction is the result of human interaction
Conflict theroy
Focus on power and argue that patriarchal systems benefit from subordinate women
Interactionist Theories
Focus on “doing gender”
Gender is a process and NOT static. T/F
true
Intersexuality
establishes that woman or man are not stable or obvious categories of identity
Matrix of Domination
Intersecting domains of oppression that create a social space of domination
THIS SHAPES INTERSEXUALITY
Postmodern Theories
Question the notion of “woman” as a separate category as being contingent on a lot of things.
truth is personal and variesfrom person to person.
