gender terms Flashcards

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# (gender terms) Kane & Schippers On Sexuality

Answer 1

Most Americans appear to believe that men's sexual drives are stronger than women's, and at least half perceive those differences as natural. A widespread belief in a naturally stronger sex drive in men creates a foundation for

Answer 2

Men are less likely to be shown cooking, cleaning, shopping, or washing dishes. When men are shown in the context of family life, they are shown doing something stereotypical such as mowing the lawn or working on a car. Men are usually seen with boys not girls. Nurturing images of men are usually seen in women's magazines, not men's.

Answer 3

Where women are held in less regard there is more domestic violence in which the majority of the victims are women. Where it is acceptable for men to see themselves closer to women such as sensitive, nurturing, kind, there is less domestic violence. Also because children are seen in a more sensitive manner.

Answer 4

Almost all violence in the world is committed by men. Masculinity is tied to violence. Male violence is a way to prove successful masculinity. One of the most significant "causes" of male violence, then, is gender inequality.

Answer 5

99 percent of people arrested for rape are men. 90 percent of all murder victims are killed by men. Men are more violent. Those societies in which rape was relatively rare valued

Answer 6

Like femininity, masculinity operates politically at different levels. At one level, it is a form of identity, a means of self-understanding that structures personal attitudes and behaviors. At another, distinct but related level. masculinity can be seen as a form of ideology, in that it presents a set of cultural ideals that define appropriate roles, values and expectations for and of men. Masculinity is not 'natural.' Masculinity is crucially defined by the structural facts of male dominance over women, and the hierarchies of the capitalist economy.

Answer 7

An emphasis on male strength, high sexuality, and dominance. , A sense of virility, personal worth, and pride in one's maleness.

Answer 8

The term given to zones in northern Mexico with factories supplying manufactured goods to the U.S. market. The low-wage workers in the primarily foreign-owned factories assemble imported components and/or raw materials and then export finished goods.

Answer 9

The economic structure of the media explains much about why women continue to be shown as sex objects and household caretakers. These images are consistent with capitalist needs maintain women's services in the home and to make commercial objects out everything, including sexuality.

Answer 10

Families in which married couples live together with their children. Only dominant groups have defined s the ideal and that many have come to take for granted as the only family form.

Answer 11

A form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line. Also the cause of males seeking dominance over women. Societies with this system tend to have higher violence and oppression toward women. Women are less valued socially and culturally.

Answer 12

Theory defined by Glen Elder, Lawrence Knopp, and Heidi Nast. Underscores the idea that all sexual identities are socially constructed and that the categories of sexuality that we presume to be fixed can be disrupted and change. States that institutional practices creates sexual identities and that the boundaries that distinguish legitimate and illegitimate sex are politically constructed. Says that theorists that only one sexuality is normal and that all others are deviant, immoral, and wrong.

Answer 13

The idea that the mass media reflect the values of the general population. Images in the media are seen as representing dominant ideals within the population, particularly because the capitalistic structure of the media is dependent on appealing to the largest consumer audience. Gerbner says that although media images are make-believe, they do symbolize dominant social beliefs and images

Answer 14

Hypothesizes that sexist and racist images in the media encourage role modeling. The media's deleterious role models, when internalized prevent and impede female accomplishments. They also encourage both women and men to define women in terms of men's sex objects or in the context of the family.

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Arlie Hochschild's term for the domestic work without pay that employed women perform at home after they complete their workday on the job.

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Advertising thus does not work by creating values and attitudes out of nothing but by drawing upon and re-channeling concerns that the target audience (and the culture) already shares.

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Factories where employees are subjected to bad working conditions and get paid little money.

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Amended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. Forbids discrimination on the basis of race, color national origin, religion, or sex in any term, condition, or privilege of employment. Opened the door for women's participation in education, employment, and athletics, etc...

Answer 19

The notion that everyone should be heterosexual and have relationships with the opposite sex due to the dominant values and ideals of a society.