gender, sex, sexuality Flashcards
The United States prides itself on being the land of the “free,”
but it is rather restrictive when it comes to its citizens’ general attitudes about sex compared to other industrialized nations.
Which woman was believed to have “heaved a brick through the rose-colored picture window of the American bungalow” by writing her book for the second wave of the women’s movement?
Betty Friedan
________ focuses on mismatches between anatomical sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, not just division into male/female or homosexual/hetereosexual. By so labelling their discipline, scholars reject the effects of labeling; instead, they embraced the term and reclaimed it for their own purposes.
Queer theory
Adherence to masculine and feminine gender roles continues in occupational tendencies later in life because
occupational roles are examples of typical U.S. male and female behavior, derived from our culture’s traditions.
Which of the following is a way in which heterosexism is displayed in a casual, daily interaction?
wives ckub
Which primary sociological viewpoint does feminism align with in explaining gender roles?
standpoint theory