Talking about Gender Flashcards
Sex
- A … construct premised upon biological characteristics enabling sexual …
- Among people, biological sex is variously assigned in relation to … sex-characteristics, gonads, or sex chromosomes; sexual categories include: male, female, … (persons born with both male and female sexual characteristics), and … (persons who undergo surgical and/or hormonal interventions to reassign their sex).
- A biological construct premised upon biological characteristics enabling sexual reproduction.
- Among people, biological sex is variously assigned in relation to secondary sex-characteristics, gonads, or sex chromosomes; sexual categories include: male, female, intersexual (persons born with both male and female sexual characteristics), and transsexual (persons who undergo surgical and/or hormonal interventions to reassign their sex).
Sex is a … construct
Sex is a biological construct
Sexual categories include:
- Male
- Female
- … (persons born with both male and female sexual characteristics)
- … (persons who undergo surgical and/or hormonal interventions to reassign their sex).
- Male
- Female
- Intersexual (persons born with both male and female sexual characteristics)
- Transsexual (persons who undergo surgical and/or hormonal interventions to reassign their sex).
Intersexual =
persons born with both male and female sexual characteristics
Transexual =
persons who undergo surgical and/or hormonal interventions to reassign their sex)
Gender refers to a … construct
social
Gender refers to a … construct regarding …-bound conventions, roles, and behaviours for, as well as relations between and among, women and men and boys and girls.
Gender refers to a social construct regarding culture-bound conventions, roles, and behaviours for, as well as relations between and among, women and men and boys and girls.
Gender roles vary across a continuum and both gender relations and biologic expressions of gender vary within and across …
Gender roles vary across a continuum and both gender relations and biologic expressions of gender vary within and across societies.
Sexism, in turn, involves inequitable … relations and refers to institutional and interpersonal practices whereby members of dominant gender groups accrue … by subordinating other gender groups and justify these practices via ideologies of innate S.., difference, or deviance.
Sexism, in turn, involves inequitable gender relations and refers to institutional and interpersonal practices whereby members of dominant gender groups accrue privileges by subordinating other gender groups and justify these practices via ideologies of innate superiority, difference, or deviance.
Definitions of Sex/ Gender
Why should doctors care about gender socialisation?
- Women in particularly often get delayed diagnosis of conditions e.g. heart attacks
- May be that symptoms are taken less seriously, or how we present these symptoms as a gender
Why should doctors care about gender socialisation? (2)
- Gender .. gap
- Gender pay gap (34%) 2017
Where does gender come from?
- 4 ideas?
- Genetics?
- Hormones?
- The brain?
- Culture?
Intersex =
when the complex processes of sex determination +/- sex differentiation are disrupted/incomplete (? 2-4% of people)
What % of people are intersex? (estimated)
2-4% of people