Gender Roles and Stereotypes II

Question 1

What is heterosexual?

Answer 1

Attraction to someone of the opposite sex.

Question 2

What is bisexual?

Answer 2

Attraction to someone of the opposite sex, or the same sex.

Question 3

What is homosexual?

Answer 3

Attraction to someone of the same sex.

Question 4

What is transgender?

Answer 4

Identifying oneself as having characteristics of the opposite sex, including outward appearance.

Question 5

What is transsexual?

Answer 5

Bodily modification and reconstruction from male to female (usually more successful when done during school).

Question 6

What is heteronormativity?

Answer 6

The social institutions, practices, and norms that support an automatic assumption that other people are or should be heterosexual.

Question 7

What is heterosexism?

Answer 7

A belief in the moral superiority of heterosexual institutions and practices.

Question 8

What is homophobia?

Answer 8

Review page 21.

Question 9

How do gender and politics mix?

Answer 9

Gay pride and public awareness, ending violence against women, legalizing same sex marriage, allowing same sex couples the same rights and privileges as married couples, ending discrimination.