Gender and Sexuality

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Refers to those who believe that their gender identity and expression are different from what they were assigned as birth

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Transgender

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Someone who believes that they are not exclusively masculine or feminine

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Non-binary

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Someone whose gender matches the sex they were assigned at birth (most people)

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Cisgender

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Refers to the different biological and physiological characteristics of males and females, such as reproductive organs, chromosomes, and hormones

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Sex

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(In my eyes gender and sex are the same things) Refers to the socially-constructed characteristics of women and men- such as norms, roles, and relationships among and between groups of women and men

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Gender

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Biological influences

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Nature

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Social influences

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Nurture

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How we learn about gender and other things from family, peers, teachers, coaches, and other influential people in our lives

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Socialization

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Social definitions of behavior assigned to men or women

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Gender norms

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How meanings of gender are created through social interaction and social norms (I do not belive that gender is a social construct)

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Social construction of gender

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We perform actions that produce gender. We take into consideration what is believed to be appropriate for our gender (I can’t lol)

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Do gender

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The classification system that allows for only two separate gender categories (I believe in this)

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Gender binary

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Incorporating both feminine and masculine characteristics

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Androgynous

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Refers to therapies or treatments, ranging from counseling to medical interventions such as hormone treatments, aimed at “supporting and affirming an individual’s gender identity when it conflicts with the one they were assigned at birth.”

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Gender-affirming care

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Refers to the ways in which different types of social relations are linked together in complex ways, creating very different experiences for different groups of people

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Intersectionality

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Cultural influences of the ethnic groups to which we belong

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Ethnocultural norms

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Where individuals or groups are treated and perceived differently based upon their gender

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Gender inequality

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Refers to a collection of movements that advocate for equality for all sexes and genders

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Feminism

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The belief that humanity could be improved by encouraging “better” people (Upper-class, White Americans) to have more children while decreasing births among the “unfit” (everyone else)

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Eugenics

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The systematic disadvantages in wages, benefits, and other career factors that are associated with motherhood

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Motherhood penalty

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Benefit in wages and perceived competence that are associated with fatherhood (maybe White fathers lol)

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Fatherhood bonus

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A metaphor to describe barriers that women face in the workplace that prevent them from reaching higher positions

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Glass ceiling

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A rape or sexual assault that occurs between people who already know each other

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Acquaintance rape

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When survivors of rape or sexual assault are viewed as responsible for their own assaults

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Victim-blaming

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Stereotyped or false beliefs about sexual violence that may excuse or naturalize the perpetrator’s behavior (for example, arguing that a man who is sexually aroused might “not be able to control himself”) while shifting responsibility to the victim (“what did she think would happen if she dressed like that?” or “they shouldn’t have drunk so much”).

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Rape myths

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(also sometimes referred to as domestic violence) Usually defined as abuse occurring between current or former spouses, someone they are dating, or romantic partners

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Intimate partner violence (IPV)

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Harming or threatening to harm someone else, like a child, other loved one, or even a pet, if the victim tries to leave

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Proxy violence

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Involves forcing parenthood on an unwilling partner through means ranging from violence to contraceptive sabotage (for example, by tampering with birth control to make it less effective);

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Reproductive Coercion

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Preventing the victim from working or restricting their access to money they’ve earned.

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Financial abuse

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May be granted by a court when an individual is deemed unable to make their own decisions due to an issue like mental illness or dementia.

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Conservatorship

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Centering the lives and experiences of men in our world view and practices

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Androcentrism

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Extreme in sexual appearance or desire

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Hypersexuality

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In which one country politically and economically controls the people and resources of another geographic area

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Colonialism

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Portrayed Black women as highly sexual and “lusty”

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Jezebel caricature

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Portrayed Black men as savage sexual predators

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Brute caricature

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A biological event that signals the process of becoming a sexually mature individual

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Puberty

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Refers to the way we enforce normative behaviors through social interaction, values and worldviews, and laws

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Social control

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A process in which society understands or defines a problem in medical terms

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Medicalize

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A worldview that centers the phallus (the symbolic ideal of the penis) in sexual acts and society more broadly

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Phallocentrism

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Students are taught that abstinence is expected of them

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Abstinence-only sex education

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Generally “stresses the importance of waiting to have sex” while offering information about how contraception works, so students can avoid unwanted pregnancies and sexually-transmitted infections (STIs)

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Comprehensive sex education

Question 42

Roe was a 1973 Supreme Court ruling which held that the Constitution guaranteed a right to abortion, at least in the first trimester of pregnancy. Roe also held that states could regulate or restrict abortion in the second trimester of pregnancy in the interests of safeguarding maternal health, and in the third trimester (or post-viability) to protect fetal life.

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Roe v. Wade

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Using the so-called “abortion pill,” usually a series of pills containing the medications mifepristone and misoprosol

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Medication abortions