Sociology Chapter 12 Gender, Sex, and Sexuality

Cisgender

Gender identity matches the sex

Non-binary

Gender that is more than 2 categories of being female and male

Instrumental

Male and masculine

Sex

Male, female, intersex

Gender

Masculine, feminine, androgynous

Gender expression

How you demonstrate your gender thru acting, dressing, behaving, and interacting

Berdache

Individuals who occasionally or permanently dressed and lived as a different gender

Transgender

Inds. who identify with the role that is the different from their biological sex

Gender Dysphoria

A condition of people whose gender at birth is contrary to the one they identify with

Sexuality

A person's capacity for sexual feelings

Gender identity

A person's deeply held internal perception of his or her gender

Social orientation

A person's physical, mental, emotional, and sexual attraction to a particular sex (male or female)

Kinsey scale

A six-point rating scale that ranges from exclusively heterosexual to exclusively homosexual

Intersex

Ambiguous genitalia; 1 in 1000 babies

Heteronormative society

Assumes sexual orientation is biologically determined and unambiguous

Pansexual

Attracted to all sexes and gender identity

Gender

Behaviors, personal traits, and social positions that society attributes to being female or male

Heterosexism

Both an ideology and as set of institutional practices that privilege heterosexuals and heterosexuality over other sexual orientation

Genderfluid

Change their gender identity best fit their desire

Asexual

Doesn't experience sexual attraction to anyone at all

Expressive role

Emotionally considered as gender

Homosocial

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's term of nonsexual same-sex relations. Woman can express more homosocial feeling than men

Fa'afafine

"The way of the woman," used to describe individuals who are born biologically male but embody both masculine and feminine traits

Double standard

(In the field of sexual studies) prohibiting premarital sexual intercourse for women but allowing it for men. For women: in committed love relationships, for men: no condition

Doing gender

People perform tasks or process characteristics based on the gender role assigned to them

Sex

Physical or physiological differences between males and females including both primary sex characteristic (the reproductive system) and secondary characteristic such as height and muscularity

Essentialist viewpoint

Ppl who are born with male genitalia should be masculine. They believe in biological determinism

Sexism

Prejudiced beliefs that value one sex over another

Gender role

Society's concepts of how men and women are expected to look and how they should behave

Third gender

Thai, Tahiti, native American, Indian, Omen

Biological determinism

The belief that men and women behave differently due to differences in their biology

Romantic attraction

The feeling that causes people to desire a romantic relationship with a specific other person that doesn't involve sex

Social construction of sexuality

The way in which socially created definitions about the cultural appropriateness of sex-linked behavior shape the way people see and experience sexuality. Not necessarily traditional, doing gender

Transsexual

Transgender inds. who attempt to alter their bodies thru medical interventions such as surgery and hormonal therapy, so that their physical being is better aligned with gender identity

Androgynous

We have mix personality trait, can be neat but masculine

Biological sex

objectively measurable organ, hormones, chromosomes Female= vagina, ovaries; Male= penis, testes; Intersex= a combination of two