Sex And Gender

Question 1

Define gender

Answer 1

Psychological, social and cultural difference between males and females (socially constructed)

Question 2

What is the difference between nature and nurture?

Answer 2

Nature: innate difference in behaviour between men and women that appear in all cultures
Nurture: based on environmental and social factors that shape behaviours

Question 3

Discuss the differences between men and women with human sexuality

Answer 3

Men - more sexually promiscuous, need to impregnate as many women as possible to ensure specie survival
Women - want stable partners to protect biological inheritance

Question 4

What are the theories of gender?

Answer 4

Freud - psychosexuality
Chodrow - dependent on infant attachment, emphasis on mother due to emotional involvement, when broken leads to independence - gender development
Connell - hegemonic masculinity

Question 5

What is gender socialisation?

Answer 5

Learning gender roles through interactions unconsciously

Question 6

What is socialisation and gender identity?

Answer 6

Conceptions gender and sexual attitudes formed early, taken for granted

Question 7

What is doing gender?

Answer 7

Daily interaction, continuously learned and relearned, social reproduction, socialisation reproduced by forms of media

Question 8

What is gender reproduction?

Answer 8

Gender stratification (unequal distribution of wealth, power, prestige between sexes), sexism (one sexism superior), patriarchy (men dominate, oppress, exploit women

Question 9

What are the structures of patriarchy by walmby 1990?

Answer 9

Paid work, household, state, violence, sexuality, culture

Question 10

How is gender related to the media?

Answer 10

Taught to measure personal importance and accomplishment by personal beauty. Sets up unattainable standards, self defeating, women seen as objects, disempowered, reproduces gender roles

Question 11

Define sex

Answer 11

Physical differences of body