Feminism/Gender
Carol Gilligan
A feminist who is known for studying the moral development of adolescents.
Barbara Reskin
A sociologist known for studying labor-market stratification, sex segregation, and affirmative action.
Don Kulick
An anthropologist who studied the lives of a group of transgendered prostitues in Brazil.
Sex
An individual's membership in one of two biologically distinct categories- male or female.
Feminist Movement
Designed to consider gender as a way society organizes social relations, generally resulting in inequality between the sexes.
Feminism
The belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes and the social movements organized around that belief.
Deceptive Distinctions
The distinction between the sexes are maintained by ideology and social controls.
Glass Ceiling
The gendered barrier women encounter in more prestigious corporate occupations.
Travesti
The name given to the group of transgendered prostitutes. Specifically, males who adopt female names and appearances. They regard themselves as male, yet they adopt female linguistic pronouns.
Sex Role Theory
The nuclear family is the ideal arrangement in modern societies because it fulfills the function of reproducing workers.
Gender
The physical, behavioral, and personality traits that a group considers normal for its male and female members.
Structural Functionalism
The sexual division of labor exists to fulfill necessary functions.
Glass Elevator
Men enter feminized jobs and experience a quicker rise to leadership positions.
Sexuality
Refers to desire, sexual preference, identity, and behavior.
West and Zimmerman
They argue that gender is not a fixed identity, but rather, the product of interaction. So, one "does gender."
