Gender + Sexualities Flashcards

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The irrational fear or hatred of bisexuals

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biophobia

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bisexuality

authentic bisexuality

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being attracted to both women and men

AB = always happening in non-monogamous context

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commodification

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the process whereby goods + services become available for purchase in the market

Ex. prostitution, pornography

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heterosexual

related to surveillance (MF)

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individual attracted to members of the opposite sex

Surveillance = we police our own + others sexualities, granting approval to some while disparaging others

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sexual scripts

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Cultural expectations about appropriate sexuality that are learned through social interaction

William Simon + John Gagnon (1986)

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sexual orientation

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individual’s sexual + emotional attraction to a person of a particular sex

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homosexual

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individual who is attracted to members of the same sex

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heterosexism

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practice of holding up heterosexuality as the idea + normal sexuality, rendering all other sexualities as abnormal + deviant

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homophobia

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An irrational fear or hatred of homosexuals that can lead to discrimination, harassment, + violence against them

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sexual identity

relate to disciplinary
MF

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broad term that can include or masculinity, or femininity, our knowledge of our bodies, our sexual histories, + our sexual preferences

disciplinary = identities not biological, socially constructed + maintain through continuous performance

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Performance

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associate with Judith Butler
post-structuralist theorist
identities not stable
gender is your performance of gender at particular times + spaces (not coherent)
driven by powerful/dominant discourses
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Doing Gender

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associate with Candace West + Don Zimmerman
Symbolic Interactionism
gender is accomplishment, something that we do
actively create differences bet boys + girls
self is stable, identify yourself as a gender through social interaction
IS A ROLE, not trait

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intersectionality

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simultaneous influence of multiple social relations, including race, gender, ethnicity, + class

gender, race, class all function as mechanisms for the production of social inequality

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emphasized femininity

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normative ideal of femininity, based on women’s compliance with their subordination to men

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hegemonic masculinity

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normative ideal of dominant masculinity

hegemony derived from Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci

hegemony not dominance but CONSENT

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Transgender

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an umbrella term for a range of people who do not fit into normative constructions of sex + gender

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transsexual

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person who undergoes sex reassignment which may include surgeries

preoperative, postoperative, nonoperative

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gender relations

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organizing principles that SHAPE + ORDER interactions between, as well as the relative social importance of women and men

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intersexed individuals

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individuals born with ambiguous genitalia

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sex

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a determination of male or female on the basis of a socially agreed-upon biological criteria

biologically rooted

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gender

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social distinctions between masculinity + femininity

socially constructed

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binary construction

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split into two categories

sex = male/female
gender =feminine/ masculine

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operant conditioning

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whereby positive reinforcements increase socially gender-appropriate behaviors while negative reinforcements decrease behaviors deemed to be socially appropriate