Ppt Gender Sexuality And Appearance

Question 1

Sex

Answer 1

1. Biological designation based on genitalia
2. Reproductive organs and secondary sexual characteristics (hair growth, breast tissue, body fat)

Question 2

Gender

Answer 2

1. Social category of a performance
2. Symbolism of masculinity and femininity that we connect to being male-bodied or female-bodied

Question 3

Gender Meanings Review: the Gender Binary

Answer 3

1. Argues that there are only two types of people, male-bodied people who are masculine, and female-bodied people, who are feminine
2. Simplified dichotomy of men/women
3. Leads to routinely grouping all men together as if they’re all the same, likewise with women

Question 4

Gender Meanings Review

Answer 4

1. Male and female physical traits (height, shape, strength, bone structure, agility) overlap more than differ
2. Cisgender believe in, and thus reinforce, the binary by creating differences by changing their bodies, dress, physical movement, etc to emphasize femininity or masculinity
3. Difficult to “define” gender (biological, cultural, etc)

Question 5

Gender expression

Answer 5

How we learn to communicate our gender identity through our appearance, dress, and behavior

Question 6

Men are usually … than women with some … in height

Answer 6

Taller, overlap

Question 7

Gender Identity

Answer 7

Who we feel we are in the world; how we identify may not be consistent with societal expectations for our gender

Question 8

Gender (def)

Answer 8

The state of being male or female in typically regarding to social constructs rather than physical attributes

Question 9

Transgender

Answer 9

Refers to someone who does not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth

Question 10

Cisgender

Answer 10

Refers to someone who identifies with the gender they were assigned at birth

Question 11

Non-Binary

Answer 11

Refers to someone who does not identify as exclusively male or female

Question 12

Gender Fluid

Answer 12

Refers to someone whose gender identity changes over time from one end of the spectrum to the other

Question 13

Genderqueer

Answer 13

Refers to someone whose gender identify falls on the spectrum between male and female

Question 14

Social Construction of Gender

Answer 14

1. “Doing Gender” (West and Zimmerman, 1987)
2. “A necessary process undertaken by women or men whose competence as members of society is hostage to its production. [It] involves a complex of socially guided perceptual, interactional, and micro political activities that cast particular pursuits as expressions of masculine and feminine ‘natures’”
3. Verb, dynamic and continuous
4. Gender as enactment in all social circumstances, reinforced by culture’s construction and understanding

Question 15

Doing Gender

Answer 15

1. Gender as enactment in all social circumstances, reinforced by culture’s construction and understanding
2. Via socialization/interactional (accountability)
3. Source of learned and observed gender differences and helps continue the gender binary
4. Can be habits or for fun

Question 16

Questions

Answer 16

1. What is a gendered rule/expectation that you wish wasn’t a rule/expectation?
2. What is a gendered rule/expectation that you either love to break or would love to break if you weren’t concerned with how people would perceive it?

Question 17

TNAB and Clothing/Presentation

Answer 17

1. Act of passing
2. Chest binding, packing, tucking, makeup
3. Or challenging gender-binary (genderqueer, genderfuck, genderless, nonbinary, unisex)
4. Often situational (safety)
5. Aesthetic identity framework
6. See slide 13 for chart

Question 18

Unisex/Androgynous Clothing

Answer 18

1. Unisex: no gender designation
2. Androgynous: combining both masculine and feminine traits
3. UO and Pacsun both carry Unisex lines

Question 19

Meanings of Sexualities Review

Answer 19

1. Gender identity different from sexual orientation
2. Vary in different contexts/changing
3. Homo-: Same, one and the same (relating to the same gender identity)
4. Poly-: Much, many, more than one (multiple (usually partners) concurrently)
5. -romantic: relating to romance or romantic attraction (though often conflated, one’s romantic orientation and one’s sexual orientation can be different)
6. -sexual: of or relating to sex (used to describe a person’s sexual orientation, identification, or preferences
7. -gamous/-gamy: marriage, union, fertilization/pollination (marriage or uniting sexuality)
8. -amorous/amory: of or relating to love and sexual desire (relating to sexual and/or love/romantic relationships, not necessarily pertaining to marriage

Question 20

Importance of Dress to Queer Culture Pt 1

Answer 20

1. LGBTQ+ identities were criminalized and stigmatized for much of US history
2. Flagging to signal gay identity and preferences/type
3. Also tied to BDSM community
4. Example of nonverbal communication via dress

Question 21

Importance of Dress to Queer Culture Pt 2

Answer 21

1. Book discussed various styles for different sexualities
2. Different subcultures of fashion within the LGBTQ+ community
3. Lesbian butch and femme styles throughout history continue today
4. Also vary by race

Question 22

Defining Drag

Answer 22

1. “Over-exaggeration or distortion of gender via fashion, make-up, and entertainment, as drawn from the various definitions existing inside and outside the drag community”
2. Cross-dressing = personal, not entertainment
3. Does not equal transgender
4. First established in US in 1869, more popularized in 1920s
5. Historically, drag fashion was a response to queer discrimination, mainstream fashion, and celebrity culture

Question 23

Drag Fashion - Three Different Types

Answer 23

1. Pageant
2. Alternative
3. Comedy/Campy
4. Influenced by a variety of factors: social networks, identity, personal aesthetics, media, politics