Gender and Sexuality Issues

Question 1

processes through which social relations are reduced to an exchange relation; turning the bodies as objects of economic desire

Answer 1

commodification

Question 2

shared knowledge of society’s negative regard for any non-heterosexual behavior, identity, relationship, or community

Answer 2

sexual stigma

Question 3

cultural ideology that perpetuates sexual stigma by denying and denigrating any non-heterosexual form of behavior, identity, relationship, or community

Answer 3

heterosexism

Question 4

negative attitudes based on sexual orientation

Answer 4

sexual prejudice

Question 5

physical, verbal, emotional, sexual, and visual brutality that is inflicted disproportionately or exclusively on members of one sex

Answer 5

gendered violence

Question 6

actual or threatened use of professional or academic rewards and or punishments to gain sexual compliance from a subordinate or student

Answer 6

quid pro quo

Question 7

killing of women

Answer 7

femicide

Question 8

holding the harmed person responsible for the harm that another person has inflicted

Answer 8

blaming the victim

Question 9

types of gendered violence

Answer 9

1. gender intimidation
2. sexual assault
3. intimate partner violence
4. sexual harassment
5. genital surgery (or mutilation)
6. gender-based murder

Question 10

who are the main perpetuators of stigmatization of homosexuality?

Answer 10

religious dogma and medical views

Question 11

how are sexual stigma, heterosexism, and sexual prejudice interrelated?

Answer 11

Sexual Stigma is promoted by heterosexism and is imbibed by the individual through sexual prejudice.

Question 12

temporary special measures to accelerate the participation and equitable representation of women

Answer 12

Magna Carta of Women, section 11