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Flashcards by Ani Gasparyan, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| One Sex Model | belief that there is only one sex, which is to be male. example.) Ancient Greek charts showed female anatomy with inverted penises, and men & women's bodies were viewed as largely the same |
| Two Sex Model | belief that there are two sexes example.) male and female viewed as the only two sexes in the United States |
| intersex | general term used for a person who is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn't seem to fit the traditional definitions of female or male. example.) xxy chromosomes |
| essentialism | a belief that things have a set of characteristics that make them what they are, and that the task of science and philosophy is their discovery and expression; the doctrine that essence is prior to existence. |
| Social Construction Theory | a process by which we make reality meaningful through shared interpetation |
| Sexual Dimorphism | differences between males and females in appearance and behavior |
| Sex | physical differences in primary sexual characteristics and secondary sexual characteristics (biological) |
| Gender | the symbolism of masculinity and femininity that we connect to being male-bodied or female-bodied (cultural) |
| Normalization | beliefs and practices, by being institutionalized, are made well know, widely followed, and culturally approved |
| Gender Performativity | a stylized repetition of acts, an imitation or miming of the dominant conventions of gender. (doing gender) |
| Gender Rules (Habit, Pleasure, Policing) | instructions for how to appear and behave as a man or woman |
| Sexual Double Standard | different rules for the sexual behavior of men and women |
| Good Girl/Bad Girl | - |
| Dichotomy | a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different. |
| Binary Logic | - |
| Masculinities | things we associate with men |
| Intersectionality | the fact that gender is not an isolated social fact about us, but instead intersects with our other identities |
| The Personal Exception | a theory that allows us to reconcile our own complex identity with what we think we know about men and women by assuming that we're unusually unique |
| Theory of Gender | - |
| Gender Binary | the idea that there are only two types of people - male bodied people who are masculine and female bodied people who are feminine |
| Gender Identity | a sense of oneself as male or female |
| Patriarchy | literally, the rule of the father; it refers to the control of female and younger male family members by select adult men, or patriarchs |
| Androcentrism | the granting of higher status, respect, value, reward, and power to the masculine compared to the feminine |
| Sexism | prejudice against people based on their biological sex |
| Subordination | the placing of women into positions that make them subservient to or dependent on men |
| Misogyny | hatred of women |
| Male Flight | a phenomenon in which men abandon feminizing arenas of life |
| Hegemonic Masculinity | a type of man, idealized by men and women alike, who functions to justify and naturalize gender inequality |
| Hierarchy of Men | a rough ranking of men from most to least masculine, with the assumption that more masculine is better |
| Hypermasculinity | extreme conformity to the more aggressive rules of masculinity |
| Patriarchial Bargin | a deal in which an individual or group accepts or even legitimates some of the costs of patriarchy in exchange for receiving some of its rewards |
| Feminine Apologetic | a requirement that women balance their appropriation of masculine interests, traits, and activities with feminine performance |
| Benevolent Sexism | the attribution of positive traits to women that, nonetheless, justify women's subordination to men |
| Hostile Sexism | the condemnation of women with negative instead of positive stereotypes and the use of threats and violence to enforce women's subservience to men |
| Emphasized Femininity | an exaggerated form of femininity "oriented to accommodating the interests and desires of men" |
| Emphatic Sameness | strategy by which women try to be "just one of the guys" |
| Gendered Equivocation | the use of both emphasized femininity and emphatic sameness when they're useful and culturally expected |
| Rape Culture | an environment that justifies, naturalizes, and even glorifies sexual pressure, coercion, and violence |
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