Gender And Sexuality

Question 1

Gender reveal parties

Answer 1

When a child’s sex is revealed, people already foreclose on the “child’s life possibilities”, and inflict ideas and norms onto the child.

Question 2

Sex versus gender

Answer 2

Sex is the your biological classification at birth, while gender is the classification that you identify as throughout your life.

Question 3

The gender binary

Answer 3

Gender has been imagined as a binary. Women and men are polar opposites, either zeros or ones.

Question 4

Binary characteristics of men vs. women

Answer 4

Men: independent, dominant, active, tough, logical, worldly

Women: dependant, submissive, gentle, emotional, nurturing, domestic

These lead to sexist attitudes, stereotypes, and ideas about the things we are capable of, should act

Question 5

Essentialism point of view of gender

Answer 5

Views gender differences as a reflection of biological differences between women and men.
* they are classified with essential characteristics

Question 6

Social constructionism point of view on gender

Answer 6

Regards gender differences as constructed by social structure and culture.
* gender categories and their ideologies structure how people interact with gender

Question 7

Gender ideologies

Answer 7

Sets of ideas about what constitutes appropriate gendered behaviour (appropriate masculine and feminine behaviour).

Question 8

Gender socialization

Answer 8

Various ways in which meanings of gender are taught.

Question 9

Feminism

Answer 9

Advocacy of social equality for men and women, in opposition to patriarchy, and sexism.

• attempt to rethink structurally-engrained gender norms which keep patriarchy and sexism in place.

For example: women must become housewives.

Question 10

What do we do to express our gender

Answer 10

• our gestures
• emotions
• clothing and accessories
• speech styles

We are displaying gender with every action we do

Question 11

Intersectionality

Answer 11

A perspective of analyzing how social categorizations such as race, class, and gender intersect to produce different experiences of inequality, oppression, and domination.

Question 12

Maracle, I am Woman

Answer 12

This reading, from an indigenous women’s perspective, posits that there is a hierarchy in society that takes into account many variables.

Indigenous people are below white people and women are below men. So the hierarchy goes white man, white woman, indigenous man, then indigenous women.

This demonstrates intersectionality against indigenous women, as their mix of race and gender almost dehumanizes them, and makes them feel like they are at the very bottom of the social hierarchy.

She calls herself a slave to the white colonial society.

Question 13

Hill Collins & Bilge, Intersectionality

Answer 13

Intersectionality: investigates how intersecting power relations influence social relations across diverse societies as well as individual’s experiences in everyday life.

• it views categories of race, class, gender, sexuality, nation, ability, ethnicity and age as interrelated and mutually shaping one another

African American women faced the intersectionality of gender, race, and class so no social movement by itself could address the entirety of discriminations they faced.

This reading focuses on what intersectionality does not what it is.

Intersectionality does not fall equally on women, children, people of color, differently abled people, transgenders people, undocumented populations, and indigenous groups.

To explain economic inequality, intersectionality focuses on race, gender, and age to shift how we think about jobs, income, and wealth.