chapter 12 Flashcards
the gender order and sexualities (18 cards)
gender order
the ways in which society shapes notions of masculinity and feminity into power relationships
gender regime
the gender order as it works through in smaller settings
hegemonic masculinity
the main ways of being a man in society
sex
the biological distinction between females and males
gender
the social aspects of differences and hierarchies between female and male
hermaphrodite
a human being with some combination of female and male internal and external genetalia
gender identity
the subjective state in which someone comes to say ‘I am a man/woman’
transsexual
people who feel they are one sex, even though biologically they are the other
gender role
learning and performing the socially accepted characteristics for a given sex
gender performance
the ways in which masculinities and feminities are acted out
gender stratification
a society’s unequal distribution of wealth, power and privilege between the sexes
sexism
the belief that one sex is innately superior to another
patriarchy
a form of social organisation in which men dominate, oppress and exploit women
gender violence
all those practices of domestic and sexual violence directed at maintaining gender hierarchies and punishing feminities
feminism
the advocacy for social equality of the sexes, in opposition to the patriarchy and sexism
sexuality
aspects of the body and desire that are linked to the erotic
homophobia
the dread of being in close quarters with homo sapiens
sexual scripts
guidelines that help define who, what, where, when and why we have sex
