Gender Ideology

Question 1

Gender Ideology

Answer 1

A set of interrelated ideas about masculinity and femininity:
socially and historically contracted set of power relations between men and women
*prevailing common sense beliefs about maleness and femaleness

Question 2

Sex

Answer 2

What is in-between your legs:

Biologically determined features

Question 3

Gender

Answer 3

What is in your head:
Gender socialization: assigned a gender at birth based on sexual organs
Gender is learned: gender myths are communicated through a range of institutions

Question 4

Gender order: simple, natural binary ( two-category) classification system designed to highlight differences

Answer 4

Problem: does not account for the range of people born with mixed chromosomal structure
Ex: Androgen insensitivity syndrome
Note: each category is perceived in terms of opposites
Heterosexual female vs. Heterosexual male

DOES NOT LEAVE ROOM FOR THISE WHO DON’T FIT EITHER CATEGORY

Question 5

Sex testing in Sport was introduced in

Answer 5

1966

Question 6

Maria Patino

Answer 6

Failed sex test for 1985

was given her womanhood back in 1988

Question 7

Stockholm

Answer 7

Consensus: permits athletes to compete in their transition sex under strict conditions

Question 8

Renee Richards

Answer 8

Transitioned to being female…

Won a supreme court case and was allowed to compete as a tennis player in 1977

Question 9

Michelle Dumaresq

Answer 9

Transgender motocross player

Question 10

2004 Athens Olymipcs

Answer 10

Transgendered athletes can compete as their transitioned genders

Question 11

Hegemonic Masculinity

Answer 11

reinforces heterosexuality, agression, and assertiveness as a dominant standard to consensually aspire to

Question 12

Gender ideology at play

Answer 12

Separation
Different rules & resources
Ex: women’s hockey
no body checking: all it does is create a distinction. Men benefit because it shows that males are superior because of these distinctions