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