WGS 101 lesson 2

Question 1

Gender socialization

Answer 1

The social processes through which individuals are taught societal expectations assocaited with gender norms. Includes rewards for gender conformity and punishments for gender non conformity.

Question 2

Gender norms

Answer 2

Socially constructed ideas of what attributes, activities and behaviors are appropriate for which gender

Question 3

Gender identity

Answer 3

An individuals internal individual experience with gender, can not be viewed

Question 4

Gender freedom

Answer 4

Everyones right to define, determine and change their sex to male, female or anything else on the gender spectrum, includes the right to display characteristics that are ambigous or contradictory under binarism

Question 5

Gender presentation

Answer 5

The impression of gender an individual gives off through their apperance, includes clothing, hairstyles, behavior, body language and voice inflections. Does not always reflect their gender identity.

Question 6

Gender expression

Answer 6

The superficial and personal ways an individual expresses their gender, may not represent their gender identity

Question 7

Gender binarism

Answer 7

The idea that gender is closed and fixed to male and female without any variation in identity or expression

Question 8

Biological sex

Answer 8

The sex a person was born as can be male, female, or intersex. Is indicated through sex chromosomes, internal reproductive organs, and external genitalia

Question 9

Cisgender

Answer 9

An individual whose gender identity is associated with the sex they were assigned at birth

Question 10

Transgender

Answer 10

An individual whose gender identity or expression differs from the one associated with the sex they were assigned at birth