Sex, Gender, Sexuality, & Kinship Flashcards
(25 cards)
Sexual dimorphism
Distinct differences in sizes or appearance between the sexes of an animal in addition to differences between the sexual organs themselves
Primary Sex Characteristics
Genitalia (reproductive organs)
These produce hormones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone) that can cause secondary sex characteristics
Secondary sex characteristics
Chest/breast size, muscle mass, height, weight, pitch of your voice, presence of facial hair, proclivity to baldness, longevity
Sex
Observable physical characteristics that distinguish the two kinds of humans (male and female) necessary for biological reproduction
Gender
The cultural construction of beliefs and behaviors considered appropriate for each sex
Gender Idenity
Personal conception of oneself as male female (both or neither). One’s gender idenity will be communicated through gender expression
Gender expression
A person’s behavior, mannerisms, interests, and appearance, that are associated with gender in a particular cultural context, specifically with the categories of femininity or masculinity (i.e. the way a person behaves based on the cultural categories of masculinity or femininity)
Sexuality
Ways people experience and value physical desire and pleasure in the context of sexual intercourse; who you want to mate with
Gender Stratification
Unequal distribution of power in which gender shapes who has access to resources
Intersex
A general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to conform to the male/female binary
Those who are born with, or later made to have ambiguous genitalia
Transgender
Moving from one gender to another
Fictive kin
Family friends that are very close
Kinship
Cuturually constructed systems of relatedness that play selective attention to some of those aspects (mating, birth, and nurture) but downplays others
Adoption
Mating & birth (but not nurture)
Surrogacy
Mating & nurture (but not birth)
Insemination/In vitro
Birth & nurture (but not mating)
Brideprice
Paid by groom’s family
Bride service
Paid by groom’s family to compensate for loss of family “worker”
Dowry
Paid by bride’s family
Matrilocal
Live with wife’s family (or in wife’s village)
Patrilocal
Live with husband’s family (or in husband’s village)
Patrilineal
Trace relatedness to dad’s side
Matrilineal
Trace relatedness to mom’s side
Bilateral groups
All people trace themselves equally to mom and dad’s side
