Reviewer for GES midterm PART 1 Flashcards
Refers to biological characteristics of women and men, boys and girls.
sex
refers to the social construction of women and men, of femininity and masculinity, which varies in time and place, and between cultures.
gender
Most children can easily label themselves as either a boy or a girl.
Before their third birthday
We tend to value male characteristics more than females.
gender as androcentric
children become conscious of the physical differences between boys and girls.
Around age two
Men and women are not opposites.
gender as dichotomy
Men are perceived as the yardstick by which we compare women.
male as norm
A school of thought that sees gender differences as a reflection of biological differences between women and men.
Essentialism
Girls tend to identified as delicate, weak, beautiful, and cute.
Boys tend to be identified as strong, alert, and well-coordinated.
Gender Socialization
reinforce the essentialist viewpoint when they claim that traditional gender roles help to integrate society.
Functionalists
is the repeated stylization of the body. A set of repeated acts within a highly rigid regulatory framework.`
gender
who believe that gender inequality is rooted in patriarchal authority relations, family structures, and patterns of socialization and culture that exists in most societies.
feminist theorists
_____ argued that gender determines sex and Sex is not natural but a social construction.
butller
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.
Conflict theorist
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
Gender Socialization
to whom (or what) someone is attracted (physically and emotionally).
Sexual attraction or desire
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.
Sex
is characterized by diversity and involves embodied sexual practices, identities, knowledge, and strategies of resistance of the colonized and postcolonial subject.
CARIBBEAN THEORETICAL DEFINITION
a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual
intersex
what a person does or likes to do sexually (intercourse, masturbation, oral sex, sexual fetishes)
Sexual activity or behavior
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.
GENDER
______ is Political
Powerful people who convince others that their interpretation of reality is fact.
knowledge
____argues that gender, race, sexuality, are the products of a “ritualized repetition.”
butler
Four Intertwining strands of sexuality:
Sexual desire or attraction
Sexual activity or behavior
Sexual identity
Sexual experience
how someone describes their sense of self as a sexual being (e.g. heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, gay, homosexual)
Sexual identity
______ is NOT something we are automatically born with, it is something WE CONTINUALLY PERFORM.
gender
most children have a stable sense of their gender identity.
By age four
A school of thought that sees gender differences as a reflection of the different social position occupied by women and men.
Social Constructionism
Gender identity typically develops in stages:
Around age two:
Before their third birthday:
By age four:
observation of others sexualities; education or training related to sexuality; experiences that may not have been consensual.
Sexual Experience
