Midterm

Question 1

a person’s basic internal sense of being a man, woman, and/or another gender. a person’s deeply felt, internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond to the person’s physiology or designated sex at birth

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Gender Identity

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refers to the characteristics of women, men, girls, and boys that are socially constructed. This includes norms, behaviors and roles associated with being a woman, man, girl or boy, as well as relationships with each other.

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Gender (WHO definition)

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conveyed through appearance, behaviors, and personality styles. These means of expression are often culturally defined as masculine or feminine

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Gender Expression

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described as a biological construct defined on an anatomical, hormonal, or genetic basis

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Sex

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relates both to the types of partners to whom an individual is romantically and/or sexually attracted and also to how one identifies in this regard

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Sexual Orientation

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argues that there are only two types of people, male-bodies people, who are masculine, and female-bodied people, who are feminine

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Gender Binary

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we put people and things into masculine and feminine categories without thinking about it; this seems natural rather than constructed

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Gender Socialization

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widely shared beliefs about how men and women are, and should be, and how they do, and should, behave

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Gender Ideology

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Social and self-focus demands that people face to behave and express themselves in ways that comport with their gender, often based on heteronormative assumptions

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Gender Accountability

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The study of the “methods” people use to understand and produce the social order. examines and analyzes social interactions

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Ethnomethodology

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Another term for embedded associations is stereotypes; these are fixed, oversimplified, and distorted ideas about categories of people

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Stereotypes

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By and large, the daily routines of family life do not have much impact on the strong tendency of children to separate into same-sex groups, and probably not on the distinctive activities enacted by make and female groups

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Selective Affiliation

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a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t fit the boxes of “female” or “male.”

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Intersex

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a diverse group of people who often experience some form of gender dysphoria

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Trans

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discomfort with the relationship between one’s body assigned sex and their gender identity

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Gender Dysphoria

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may identify as an intermediate or separate third gender, identify with more than one gender, no gender, or have a fluctuating gender identity

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Non-binary

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is a person whose gender identity (the gender they identify with most) is not fixed

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Gender Fluid

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The authority, dominance, and influence of one group

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Hegemony

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denoting or relating to a person whose gender identity corresponds with the sex registered for them at birth; not transgender

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Cisgender

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where one is located in relation to their various social identities

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Positionality

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dislike of or prejudice against gay people

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Homophobia

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the state of being cast off and separated from norms and rules, especially on the scale of society and morality

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Abject Position

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the study of overlapping or intersecting social identities and related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination

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Intersectionality

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the imposition or enforcement of normative gender expressions on an individual who is perceived as not adequately performing

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Gender Policing