Chapter 8

Question 1

Gender studies

Answer 1

Research into the cultural construction of masculinity and femininity across cultures as flexible, complex, and historically and culturally constructed categories

Question 2

Sex

Answer 2

The observable physical differences between male and female, especially biological expressions related to human reproduction

Question 3

Gender

Answer 3

The expectations of thought and behavior that each culture assigns to people of different sexes

Question 4

Sexual dimorphism

Answer 4

the phenotypic differences between males and females of the same species

Question 5

Cultural construction of gender

Answer 5

The way humans learn to behave as a man or woman and to recognize behaviors as masculine or feminine within their cultural context

Question 6

Gender performance

Answer 6

The way gender identity is expressed through action

Question 7

Intersexual

Answer 7

An individual who is born with a combination of male and female genitalia, gonads, and / or chromosomes

Question 8

Transgender

Answer 8

A gender identity or performance that does not fit with cultural norms related to one’s assigned sex at birth

Question 9

Gender Stratification

Answer 9

An unequal distribution of power and access to a group’s resources, opportunities, rights, and privileges based on gender

Question 10

Gender stereotype

Answer 10

A preconceived notion about the attributes of, differences between, and proper roles for men and women in a culture

Question 11

Gender ideology

Answer 11

A set of cultural ideas, usually stereotypical, about the essential character of different genders that functions to promote and justify gender stratification

Question 12

Gender violence

Answer 12

Forms of violence shaped by the gender identities of the people involved

Question 13

Structural gender violence

Answer 13

Gendered societal patterns of unequal access to wealth, power, and basic resources such as food, shelter, and health care that differentially affect women in particular