Gender and Sexuality Flashcards
Refers to those who believe that their gender identity and expression are different from what they were assigned as birth
Transgender
Someone who believes that they are not exclusively masculine or feminine
Non-binary
Someone whose gender matches the sex they were assigned at birth (most people)
Cisgender
Refers to the different biological and physiological characteristics of males and females, such as reproductive organs, chromosomes, and hormones
Sex
(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
Gender
Biological influences
Nature
Social influences
Nurture
How we learn about gender and other things from family, peers, teachers, coaches, and other influential people in our lives
Socialization
Social definitions of behavior assigned to men or women
Gender norms
How meanings of gender are created through social interaction and social norms (I do not belive that gender is a social construct)
Social construction of gender
We perform actions that produce gender. We take into consideration what is believed to be appropriate for our gender (I can’t lol)
Do gender
The classification system that allows for only two separate gender categories (I believe in this)
Gender binary
Incorporating both feminine and masculine characteristics
Androgynous
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.”
Gender-affirming care
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
Intersectionality
Cultural influences of the ethnic groups to which we belong
Ethnocultural norms
Where individuals or groups are treated and perceived differently based upon their gender
Gender inequality
Refers to a collection of movements that advocate for equality for all sexes and genders
Feminism
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)
Eugenics
The systematic disadvantages in wages, benefits, and other career factors that are associated with motherhood
Motherhood penalty
Benefit in wages and perceived competence that are associated with fatherhood (maybe White fathers lol)
Fatherhood bonus
A metaphor to describe barriers that women face in the workplace that prevent them from reaching higher positions
Glass ceiling
A rape or sexual assault that occurs between people who already know each other
Acquaintance rape
When survivors of rape or sexual assault are viewed as responsible for their own assaults
Victim-blaming
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”).
Rape myths
(also sometimes referred to as domestic violence) Usually defined as abuse occurring between current or former spouses, someone they are dating, or romantic partners
Intimate partner violence (IPV)
Harming or threatening to harm someone else, like a child, other loved one, or even a pet, if the victim tries to leave
Proxy violence
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);
Reproductive Coercion
Preventing the victim from working or restricting their access to money they’ve earned.
Financial abuse
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.
Conservatorship
Centering the lives and experiences of men in our world view and practices
Androcentrism
Extreme in sexual appearance or desire
Hypersexuality
In which one country politically and economically controls the people and resources of another geographic area
Colonialism
Portrayed Black women as highly sexual and “lusty”
Jezebel caricature
Portrayed Black men as savage sexual predators
Brute caricature
A biological event that signals the process of becoming a sexually mature individual
Puberty
Refers to the way we enforce normative behaviors through social interaction, values and worldviews, and laws
Social control
A process in which society understands or defines a problem in medical terms
Medicalize
A worldview that centers the phallus (the symbolic ideal of the penis) in sexual acts and society more broadly
Phallocentrism
Students are taught that abstinence is expected of them
Abstinence-only sex education
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)
Comprehensive sex education
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.
Roe v. Wade
Using the so-called “abortion pill,” usually a series of pills containing the medications mifepristone and misoprosol
Medication abortions
