Day 4 Flashcards
(30 cards)
What is gender?
The social and cultural expectations associated with different categories, unlimited from men and women that are often associated with sex and the body, in terms of emotions, intellect, psychology, appearance, behaviours, preferences, and social roles and expectations.
What is gender inequality?
Differences that exist in education, income, and other opportunities based on a person’s gender identity.
What is sex?
An identity separate from gender that involves the biological markers associated with being classified as male or female.
What is hegemony?
The dominant status of an idea or power, often overruling others within the same time period.
What is hegemonic masculinity?
A social construction of gender that the North American context traditional includes stereotypical behaviours and attitudes such as being strong, brave, and rational.
What is hegemonic femininity?
A social construction of gender that the North American context traditionally includes stereotypical behaviours and attitudes such as being emotional, caring, and nurturing.
What is binary?
Anything separated into two distinct and clear-cut categories.
What is gender identity?
An inner sense of belonging to one, several, or no particular gender(s).
What is genderqueer?
A term that describes a person who identifies with many genders, with no gender at all, or with a mixture of different components of many genders. Some genderqueer folks many not identify with the gender binary at all, and others may prefer not to choose a gender with which to identify.
What is genderfluid?
Describes a person whose gender identity changes over time and contexts.
What is two-spirited (2S)?
A person who identifies as having both a masculine and feminine spirit. The word is often used by indigenous people to describe one or more of their sexual, gender, or spiritual identity.
What is sexual orientation?
A term that indicates the gender(s) that an individual is attracted to.
What are gender roles?
The behaviours, attitudes, and markers ascribed to men and women by society.
What is performativity?
The idea that sex and gender are socially and culturally constructed and that we constantly repeat—or “perform”—the norms associated with our assigned gender identities in order to be understood as “coherent” or “normal.”
What is transgender?
Describes a discrepancy between the gender that individuals identify with and the biological sex they were identified as at birth.
Identifying as transgender can involve a desire to move away from traditional ideas of the male and female gender binary.
What is cisgender?
A term that describes overlap between the gender that an individual identifies with and the biological sex they were assigned at birth.
What is the conflict theory approach to gender inequality?
Conflict theorists note that capitalism demands low-cost social reproduction of a workforce from one generation to the next.
Families are the best and most convenient way to raise new workers and mothers provide the cheapest family labour.
Women keep the family fed at no cost to employers.
What is the functionalist approach to gender inequality?
Functionalists argue that social gendering is universal and inevitable as the most effective and efficient way to carry out a society’s tasks of reproduction and socialization.
What is the symbolic interactionist approach to gender inequality?
Concerned with the ways gender differences or gender roles become gender inequalities. (How young women become objectified).
Interested in the construction of gendered concepts like femininity and masculinity, and the role of families schools and mass media in ideas.
What is the feminist approach to gender inequality?
Highlights how gender differences are socially constructed.
Intersectionality, which is the theoretical approach that examines the interlocking nature of social identity categories (ethnicity, gender, class) which creates more complex and interdependent systems of oppression and marginalization.
What is the #MeToo movement?
Highlights how intersectionality affects feminism and oppression. It created awareness around sexual violence, however has been criticized for excluding voices of BIPOC women who are the most marginalized.
What is STEM?
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics which refer to education, research, and employment of this sector.
What is hidden curriculum?
Implicit lessons in social roles, values, and expectations that are communicated in schools.
How students are taught in educational institutions such as high schools which demonstrate gender inequalities that are not explicitly communicated.
