Reviewer for GES midterm PART 1

Question 1

Refers to biological characteristics of women and men, boys and girls.

Answer 1

sex

Question 2

refers to the social construction of women and men, of femininity and masculinity, which varies in time and place, and between cultures.

Answer 2

gender

Question 3

Most children can easily label themselves as either a boy or a girl.

Answer 3

Before their third birthday

Question 4

We tend to value male characteristics more than females.

Answer 4

gender as androcentric

Question 5

children become conscious of the physical differences between boys and girls.

Answer 5

Around age two

Question 6

Men and women are not opposites.

Answer 6

gender as dichotomy

Question 7

Men are perceived as the yardstick by which we compare women.

Answer 7

male as norm

Question 8

A school of thought that sees gender differences as a reflection of biological differences between women and men.

Answer 8

Essentialism

Question 9

Girls tend to identified as delicate, weak, beautiful, and cute.
Boys tend to be identified as strong, alert, and well-coordinated.

Answer 9

Gender Socialization

Question 10

reinforce the essentialist viewpoint when they claim that traditional gender roles help to integrate society.

Answer 10

Functionalists

Question 11

is the repeated stylization of the body. A set of repeated acts within a highly rigid regulatory framework.`

Answer 11

gender

Question 12

who believe that gender inequality is rooted in patriarchal authority relations, family structures, and patterns of socialization and culture that exists in most societies.

Answer 12

feminist theorists

Question 13

_____ argued that gender determines sex and Sex is not natural but a social construction.

Answer 13

butller

Question 14

who believe that:
The root of male domination in class inequality.
Men gained substantial power over women when preliterate societies were first able to produce more than their members needed for survival – some men gained control over the economic surplus.
They soon devised means of ensuring that their offspring would inherit the surplus.
As industrial capitalism developed male domination increased.

Answer 14

Conflict theorist

Question 15

the process by which individuals are taught how to socially behave in accordance with their assigned gender, which is assigned at birth based on their sex phenotype

Answer 15

Gender Socialization

Question 16

to whom (or what) someone is attracted (physically and emotionally).

Answer 16

Sexual attraction or desire

Question 17

An aspect of one’s biological makeup that depends on whether one is born with distinct male or female genitals and a genetic program that releases either male or female hormones to stimulate the development of one’s reproductive system.

Answer 17

Sex

Question 18

is characterized by diversity and involves embodied sexual practices, identities, knowledge, and strategies of resistance of the colonized and postcolonial subject.

Answer 18

CARIBBEAN THEORETICAL DEFINITION

Question 19

a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual

Answer 19

intersex

Question 20

what a person does or likes to do sexually (intercourse, masturbation, oral sex, sexual fetishes)

Answer 20

Sexual activity or behavior

Question 21

One’s sense of being male or female and playing masculine or feminine roles in ways defined as appropriate by one’s culture and society.

Answer 21

GENDER

Question 22

______ is Political

Powerful people who convince others that their interpretation of reality is fact.

Answer 22

knowledge

Question 23

____argues that gender, race, sexuality, are the products of a “ritualized repetition.”

Answer 23

butler

Question 24

Four Intertwining strands of sexuality:

Answer 24

Sexual desire or attraction
Sexual activity or behavior
Sexual identity
Sexual experience

Question 25

how someone describes their sense of self as a sexual being (e.g. heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, gay, homosexual)

Answer 25

Sexual identity

Question 26

______ is NOT something we are automatically born with, it is something WE CONTINUALLY PERFORM.

Answer 26

gender

Question 27

most children have a stable sense of their gender identity.

Answer 27

By age four

Question 28

A school of thought that sees gender differences as a reflection of the different social position occupied by women and men.

Answer 28

Social Constructionism

Question 29

Gender identity typically develops in stages:

Answer 29

Around age two:
Before their third birthday:
By age four:

Question 30

observation of others sexualities; education or training related to sexuality; experiences that may not have been consensual.

Answer 30

Sexual Experience