Gender Stufie6 Flashcards
Sex
Biological traits to assign male or female
Gender
Cultural meanings attached to being masculine or feminine that influence identities
Cis gender
Same as they were born
Transgender
Identify with something different then they were born
Transgender
Identify with something different then they were born
Intersex
Sex develops different
Intersex
Sex develops different
DSD
Difference in sex development
Gender queer
Not identifying with a specific gender or moving across genders or reject gender
Third gender
Used to describe a 3rd gender in different cultures
Gender fluid
Changing and moving across genders
Agender
No gender not identifying with any gender and rejecting it
Gender norms
Things considered normal by a culture
Gender perdormativity
Performance of “male” and “female” actions to follow societal norms. Gender is something you do
Gender expression
How you express your gender
Gender stratification
Unequal distribution of wealth and power and privilege across genders
Structural functionalism
Everything has a function in society and is there for a reason good or bad
Symbolic interactnism
Giving meaning to symbols. Assigning meaning to objects and actions
Gender conflict theory
Gender is a structural system that distributes power and privilege to some and disadvantages others
Intersectionality
Interplay of race, gender, sexual orientation and other things that can lead to multiple disadvantages
Socialist feminist
Capitalism is the foundation of the patricary getting rid of capitalism will help with equality
Tow spirit
First nations identity
Nuclear family
Heterosexual couple with kids. Mom stays at home and husband provides at work
Gender roles during Cold war
Less strict roles
Woman in military though not a lot and still looked down on
They could work but not fair or equally and negative social consequences
