Intro to Gender &Sexuality

A cisgender person is someone who agrees with the gender they were assigned to at birth. This term falls under the concept of gender because if you are cisgender you most likely follow the expectations that society has set for males and females.

What does cisgender mean?

It is the idea that men are supposed to have authority.This concept is shaped based on how the media portrays masculinity. When we think of hegemonic masculinity we think of men who are physically strong, tall, smart, confident, protective, and breadwinners. An example is the magazine cover of Lebron James and the pretty model reacting the cover of King Kong. That cover describes how men are described to be protectors.

What is Hegemonic Masculinity?

NAWSA stands for the National American Women Suffrage Association. This was a feminist group during the first wave of feminism. The presidents were Carrie Chapman and Anna Howard Shaw. This group began in 1890.

What is NAWSA?

This was a 3rd wave feminism approach that occurred in the 1990s. Females wanted to show that they could play punk music too. This term is significant because you saw more females playing and writing Punk music. Zines a do it yourself magazine helped spread riot Grrrl feminism.

What is Riot Grrrl?

They were the group of women who stood outside of the white house and protested for the right to vote? They held up signs which said, "Mr. President, what will you do for women's suffrage?" Alice Paul and other members of the National Women's Party were arrested because of their protesting. Their goal was to picket the white house until the president decided to give women the rights they deserved.

What is The Silent Sentinels?

Title IX is an amendment that was passed in 1972. This amendment prohibited discrimination in education programs. This amendment also required female sports team to be funded at the equivalent level of male sports teams.

What is Title IX ( 9)?

Gender is the social status and cultural values attached to those differences. An example of cultural values is the tribe in Africa that determines your gender based on your wealth they are called a manly-hearted woman.Gender defines your identity. Gender is what transfers males and females into woman & men.

What is gender?

Intersex is when a human is born with genitalia that is not clearly male or female. They also have ambiguous chromosomes. This is important to know because this is often confused with transgender and they are not the same thing. Transgender is when a male transforms himself into a female and vice versa.

What is intersex?

These type of feminist were most popular during the third wave of feminism. They supported pornography and believed that those women had control over their bodies.They defended BDSM, gender roles in lgbt relationships (butch/femme) and gay male sexuality- consenting adults shouldn't be ashamed

What is sex positive feminism?

Sex is a biological difference between male and female. This is identified at birth.Males have a penis and females have a vagina. Sex is different from gender because gender is socially constructed.

What is sex?

This is a declaration that was written to say that women deserve the same rights that men have. The declaration was written by Elizbeth Cadon Stanton. The declaration addressed things such as women having the right to vote, own land, and getting a better education.

What is the Deceleration of Sentiments

The ERA is an amendment that was that was drafted by Alice Paul shortly after women gained the right to vote in 1920. The amendment stated that everyone should have equal rights regardless of their sex. The ERA was created because woman believed that they should have athe same rights as men.

What is the Equal Rights Amendment. (ERA)

This term relates to Peggy McIntosh's article. She refers to this term relating it to white privilege. She explains that many white people are raised in a way where they do not realize they have an advantage. This is what causes the invisible knapsack. Peggy gives serval examples of the advantages she has such as being able to walk into the hairdresser and finding someone who knows how to deal with her hair.

What is the Invisible Knapsack ?

This was a younger more radical group during the second wave of feminism. They not only wanted to end economic and political discrimination but they fought to end sexual discrimination, cultural norms, and social norms. They had slogans that said "The personal is political."

What is the Women's Liberation or (Women's Lib)?

what minority feminist referred to themselves as because they felt like they were living in a third world contry

What is the third world?

Transgender is a person who does not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. Some transgender people go through surgery which changes them into their desired gender. The old term for this case is a transexual.

What is transgender?

A group of black feminist and lesbians. Who created The National Black Feminist organization in 1973. They were the first black femist

What was the Combahee River Collective?

This was a strike that occurred in times square during the second wave of feminism. There were about 20,000 women who attended this march. This march was hosted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the passing of the 19th amendment. Organizations such as NOW participated in this rally.

What was the Women's Strike for Equality?

Betty Friedan was quoted as fearing a "lavender menace" within the feminist movement. This term developed during the second wave of feminism. Betty Friedan didn't feel as though lesbians could represent what NOW stood for. In return, a group of lesbians protested by wearing lavender colored shirts that said " lavender menace". they did this to mock Betty Friedan. they became a protest group against lesbians in the feminist movement.

What was the term lavender menace used for?

Alice Paul is a very famous women suffragist. She was the president of National Women's Party. Alice Paul organized the Women's March in Washington D.C leading up to the inauguration of President Wilson. Alice Paul was arrested for protesting outside the white house. During her time in jail, Alice Paul went on a hunger strike which led to her being force fed. After women gained the right to vote Alice Paul worked on passing the equal rights amendment.

Who is Alice Paul?

Betty Friedan was a popular activist during the second wave of feminism. She wrote a book called The Feminine Mystique. In her book she reffered to feminism as the pronblem with no name. Betty Friedan did not support the lifestyles of lesbians.

Who is Betty Friedan?

She was a famous Stop-ERA activist during the second wave of feminism during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Stop ERA was created by her, and she even created an acronym for stop which is "Stop Taking Our Privileges.

Who is Phyllis Schlafy?

This term was created for women of color who wanted to participate in woman movements during the second wave of feminism. They did not identify their selves as feminist because they thought that feminist was the term used for the middle-class white woman. A lot of womanists were in groups like the Black Power Movement, American Indian Movement, and Pain-Asian movement. This term is significant because these is when where we see woman of color standing up for their selves and acknowledging that they deserve equal rights too.

Womanism

Gender essentialism is the idea the idea that men and women are fundamentally different for reasons that are unchangeable.Gender essentialism is often used to excuse gender-based biases in society. For example, it can be used to justify the idea that jobs traditionally held by women are often accorded less respect and lower pay.

what is Gender Essentialism ?

Gloria Steinem is a feminist journalist who was very active in the late 1960s and early 70s during the second wave of feminism. Many people were attracted to hear what she had to say because she was hip and a "babe". Most people believed that feminist had to be ugly lesbians. Gloria Steinem is significant because she is known as the one created the word Ms. This is very important because she was able to change English language while supporting femimnism.

who is Gloria Steinem?

This is term developed because woman believed that they should not be addressed based on their relationship status.Ms. was a title of a Magazine ran by Gloria Steinem and some other woman journalist. This is significant because women made a huge impact by changing the English language to make women feel ore comfortable.

why did the term Ms. form?

second wave term. Chicana (latina)term meaning that they are mixed. meaning that it makes you strong because you have experience with two identies/ cultures

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