L18: Gender

Question 1

Social Group

Answer 1

Collection of individuals who see themselves as members of the same social category.

Question 2

Personal Identity

Answer 2

Part of an individual’s self-concept derived from individual characteristics

ex. humor, competence

Question 3

Social Identity

Answer 3

that part of an individual’s self-concept which derives from
his membership in a social group together

with the value and emotional significance attaches to that membership

ex. groups based on race, gender, and occupation)

Question 4

Sociall Identity Theory

Answer 4

“people are motivated to seek positive social identity by comparing in-groups favourably with out-groups.”

Question 5

Gender

Answer 5

The attitudes, feelings and behaviors that a given culture associates with a person’s biological sex.

Question 6

Gender-normative

Answer 6

Behavior that is compatible with cultural expectations

Question 7

Gender non-conformity

Answer 7

Behaviors that are viewed as incompatible with these expectations constitute

Question 8

Gender identity

Answer 8

One’s sense of oneself as male, female or something else.

When one’s gender identity and biological sex are not congruent, the individual may identify along the transgender spectrum.

Question 9

Genderqueer

Answer 9

a person whose gender identity falls outside of the gender binary

Sometimes use “gender fluid” as an identifier but typically reject the term “transgender” because it implies a change from one gender category to another.

Question 10

Feminism

Answer 10

Political, economic, and cultural equality of women

Question 11

Sexism

Answer 11

Prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination on the basis of sex

Question 12

Cisgenderism

Answer 12

“the cultural and systemic ideology that denies, denigrates, or pathologizes self-identified gender identities that do not align with assigned gender at birth as well as resulting behavior, expression, and community.”

Question 13

First wave of feminism movement (19th, early 20th century)

Answer 13

Property rights and the right to vote

Question 14

Second wave of feminism movement (1960s to the late 1980s)

Answer 14

Equality and anti-discrimination

Question 15

Third wave of feminism movement (1990s)

Answer 15

started as a backlash to the second waves privileging of white, straight women.

Question 16

Nontraditional gender Role attitudes and experiences associated with support for _____

Answer 16

Feminism

Question 17

TERF

Answer 17

Trans exclusionary radical feminism

A feminist who excludes the rights of transgender women from their advocacy of women’s rights

Question 18

Gender Dysphoria

Answer 18

A marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender

Question 19

How much duration does it take to be considered “gender dysphoria”?

Answer 19

6 months

Question 20

DSM 5 Criteria for Gender Dysphoria (Adolescents and adults)

Answer 20

At least 2+ of these:

Marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and/or sex characteristics
→ Male who identify as woman stressed over not dressing like woman.
A strong desire:
- To be rid of one’s sex characteristics
-For the sex characteristics of the other gender
- To be of the other gender (or some alternative gender different from one’s assigned gender)
- To be treated as another gender
A strong conviction that one has the typical feelings and reactions of another gender

Question 20

Gender dysphoria is associate with what?

Answer 20

Clinically significant stress

Question 21

DSM 5 Criteria for children

Answer 21

Must have 6+ of these for 6+ months:

• Strong desire to be the other gender: dress, act, and play other gender’s toys.
• ## dislike their own sex anatomy