Sex, Gender, Sexuality, & Kinship

Question 1

Sexual dimorphism

Answer 1

Distinct differences in sizes or appearance between the sexes of an animal in addition to differences between the sexual organs themselves

Question 2

Primary Sex Characteristics

Answer 2

Genitalia (reproductive organs)

These produce hormones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone) that can cause secondary sex characteristics

Question 3

Secondary sex characteristics

Answer 3

Chest/breast size, muscle mass, height, weight, pitch of your voice, presence of facial hair, proclivity to baldness, longevity

Question 4

Sex

Answer 4

Observable physical characteristics that distinguish the two kinds of humans (male and female) necessary for biological reproduction

Question 5

Gender

Answer 5

The cultural construction of beliefs and behaviors considered appropriate for each sex

Question 6

Gender Idenity

Answer 6

Personal conception of oneself as male female (both or neither). One’s gender idenity will be communicated through gender expression

Question 7

Gender expression

Answer 7

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)

Question 8

Sexuality

Answer 8

Ways people experience and value physical desire and pleasure in the context of sexual intercourse; who you want to mate with

Question 9

Gender Stratification

Answer 9

Unequal distribution of power in which gender shapes who has access to resources

Question 10

Intersex

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Transgender

Answer 11

Moving from one gender to another

Question 12

Fictive kin

Answer 12

Family friends that are very close

Question 13

Kinship

Answer 13

Cuturually constructed systems of relatedness that play selective attention to some of those aspects (mating, birth, and nurture) but downplays others

Question 14

Adoption

Answer 14

Mating & birth (but not nurture)

Question 15

Surrogacy

Answer 15

Mating & nurture (but not birth)

Question 16

Insemination/In vitro

Answer 16

Birth & nurture (but not mating)

Question 17

Brideprice

Answer 17

Paid by groom’s family

Question 18

Bride service

Answer 18

Paid by groom’s family to compensate for loss of family “worker”

Question 19

Dowry

Answer 19

Paid by bride’s family

Question 20

Matrilocal

Answer 20

Live with wife’s family (or in wife’s village)

Question 21

Patrilocal

Answer 21

Live with husband’s family (or in husband’s village)

Question 22

Patrilineal

Answer 22

Trace relatedness to dad’s side

Question 23

Matrilineal

Answer 23

Trace relatedness to mom’s side

Question 24

Bilateral groups

Answer 24

All people trace themselves equally to mom and dad’s side

Question 25

Unilineal groups

Answer 25

People trace their relatedness to either mom or dad’s side