Gender, Sex, and Sexuality

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What are the 3 distinct states?

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a. Sex
b. Gender Social Roles
C. Sexuality

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Biological characteristics of men and women that include primary sex characteristics (e.g. chromosomes, gonads, genitals)

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Sex

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Considered constant across time, different societies, and cultures

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Sex

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Differentiated roles, behavior, capacities, and intellectual, emotional, and social characteristics attributed by a given culture to women and men

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Gender Relations/Gender

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Socially - determined; culturally - defined

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Gender Relations/Gender

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Changes across time and cultures

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Gender Relations/Gender

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All other differences besides the “strictly biological”

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Gender Relations/Gender

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Is learned performance imposed by normative heterosexual societies

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Gender behavior

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Behavior that is compatible with cultural expectations

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Gender-Normative

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Behaviors that are viewed incompatible with cultural expectations

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Gender Non-conformity

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People’s interest in attraction to others, as well as their capacity to have erotic experiences and responses

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Sexuality

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Covers a broad spectrum and can be considered deeply personal

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Sexuality

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Covers the totality of a person’s physical, emotional, and even spiritual responses. Including thoughts and feelings.

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Sexuality

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Also encompasses sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.

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Sexuality

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SOGIE

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Sexual Orientation Gender Identity Expression

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How you define your gender based on how much you align or don’t align with what you understand to be options for gender.

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Gender Identity

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The ways you present gender through your actions, dress, and demeanor, and how those presentations are interpreted based on gender norms

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Gender Expression

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The physical sex characteristics you’re born with and develop, including genitalia, body shape, voice pitch, body hair, chromosomes, etc.

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Biological Sex

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An inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction to other people

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Sexual Orientation

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3 Dimensions of Sexuality

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1. Sexual attraction, sexual behavior, sexual fantasies;
2. Emotional preference, social preference, self-identification; and
3. Heterosexual or Homosexual lifestyle

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One’s innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither – how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves.

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Gender Identity

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External appearance of one’s gender identity.

Expressed through behavior, clothing, haircut, or voice

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Gender Expression

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May or may not conform to socially defined behaviors and characteristics typically associated with being either masculine or feminine

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Gender Expression

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An umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or expression is different from cultural expectations based on the sex they were assigned at birth

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Transgender

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The process which some people strive to more closely align their internal knowledge of gender with its outward appearance.

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Gender Transition

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Some socially transition where they begin dressing, using names and pronouns, and/or be socially recognized as another gender.

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Gender Transition

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Others undergo physical transitions where they modify their bodies through medical intervention.

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Gender Transition

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Clinically significant distress caused when a person’s assigned birth gender is not the same as one with which they identify.

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Gender Dysphoria

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Why do so many women and men seem to conform to society’s gendered expectations?

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Gender Socialization

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The process through which children learn about the social expectations, attitudes and, behaviors typically associated with boys and girls.

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Gender Socialization

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Also called as gendering.

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Gender Socialization

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Processes in Gendered Socialization

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1. Manipulation 2. Canalization 3. Verbal Appellation 4. Activity Exposure

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Handling girls and boys differently

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Manipulation

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Directing children’s attention to gender-appropriate objects

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Canalization

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Telling children what they are and what expectations others have of them

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Verbal Appellation

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Familiarizing children with gender-appropriate tasks

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Activity Exposure

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Gendering is only possible with the aid of certain institutions such as:

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1. Family 2. Formal Education 3. Media

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Where we learn how to behave in a particular way based on our traditions, and religions

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Family

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Differences in disciplining boys ang girls

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Formal Education

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Difference in terms of subjects offered such as electives, practical arts

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Formal Education

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Images in text books and visual aids

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Formal Education

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Framing of exam questions and answers

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Formal Education

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Consistently portrays women as housewives, and emotionally dependent martyrs

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Media

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Advertising uses images to convey or reinforce gender stereotypes

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Media

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Advertising often uses sexualized images to sell male-oriented products

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Media

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Gendering ensures the practice of:

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1. Gender roles in society 2. Gender-specific roles 3. Gender role = socialization

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The social and behavior norms which are widely considered to be socially appropriate for individuals of a specific sex within a particular culture.

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Gender roles in society

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Often determine the traditional responsibilities and tasks assigned to women, men, girls, and boys

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Gender roles in society

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Are often conditioned by household structures, access to resources, specific impacts of the global economy, and ecological conditions.

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Gender-specific roles

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Can evolve over time

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Gender-specific roles

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Process of learning and internalizing culturally approved ways of thinking, feeling and behaving.

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Gender role = socialization

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Starts as soon as one is born

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Gender role = socialization

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Affects all parts of one’s identity by dictating what is acceptable to do (education, background, class, religion, and gender => gender roles develop)

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Gender role = socialization

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Socialization Regulates our perceptions of genders:

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1. External Regulations | 2. Internalized Self-Control

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Various institutions dictation what is proper and normal based on one’s identity.

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External Regulations

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Can happen through censorship to forms of sexuality (homosexuality)

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External Regulations

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Subtle forms of control -> microaggression (subtle messages with sexual assumptions behind every action. “Only girly boys do homework”

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External Regulations

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Because of external regulations imposed by the society, notions on gender are absorbed and internalized social control is formed.

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Internalized Self-Control

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Can cause a person to restrict himself/herself according to society’s standards and norms

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Internalized Self-Control

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Consistent practice will affect all aspects of his/her personality -> resulting in the policing of others, expanding, and perpetuating this regulation

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Internalized Self-Control

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If someone finds himself/herself deviating from what society finds normal, he or she may become deviant and excluded from society.

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Internalized Self-Control

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Developed when different institutions reinforce a biased perception of certain gender’s role

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Gender Stereotypes

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Different institutions that reinforce a biased perception of certain gender roles

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1. Family 2. Church 3. School 4. State 5. Media

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Limiting if seen as a perspective of a gender’s role rather than descriptive of the many possible roles on can have

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Gender Stereotypes

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4 Types of Gender Stereotypes

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1. Sex stereotypes 2. Sexual stereotypes 3. Sex-role stereotypes 4. Compound stereotypes

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Generalized view of traits that should be possessed by men and women. Specifically physical and emotional role.

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Sex Steroetypes

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Assumption regarding a person’s sexuality that reinforce dominant views.

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Sexual Stereotypes

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Notion on heteronormativity – assumptions that all persons are only attracted to the sex opposite to theirs

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Sexual Stereotypes

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Encompass the roles that men and women are assigned based on their sex and what behaviors they must possess to fulfill these roles.

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Sex-Role Stereotypes

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Assumptions about a specific group belonging to a gender.

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Compound Stereotypes