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33 Cards in this Set
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sex |
genes and biological development that determines whether we are male or female |
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gender |
the social assignment of people to one sex or the other in an historical culture |
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gender identity |
the sense of being male (maleness) or female (femaleness) |
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gender role |
the socialization of people as masculine or feminine |
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sexual differentiation |
process of developing into a male or female, begins before conception and continues during fetal development |
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sexual dimorphism |
being either female or male, does not account for the variation among all human bodies |
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intersexuality |
The condition of being biologically between a male and female is congenital, involves chromosomal, genital, and gonadal variations |
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what is the importance of gender identity |
rock of self-awareness, cannot be changed, responsible for many psychological and behavioral effects |
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development of the sense of feeling male, female, or something different interacts with what |
internal cues- from brain, external sources- parents, peers, and media sources and hormones |
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transgender |
someone whose identification and behavior do not match the traditional gender role for their assigned sex, may refer to themselves as gender-variant, gender or sex-changing, gender-bending, and gender-blending |
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what factors are involved in how individuals choose to identify transphobia? |
cultural, biological, and psychological factors |
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transphobia |
The fear and hatred of transgender people |
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orchiectomy |
removal of the testes |
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vaginoplasty |
construction of a vagina |
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penectomy |
removal of the penis |
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thyroid chrondroplasty |
alters the appearance of the Adam's apple, voice |
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voice surgery |
designed to raise the pitch of the speaking voice |
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facial feminization |
includes a variety of aesthetic plastic surgeries to modify the proportions of the face |
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chest reconstruction/bilateral mastectomy |
removal of breast tissue |
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hysterectomy/ oophorectomy |
removal of the uterus, Fallopian Tubes, and ovaries |
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Metoidioplasty |
construction of male-appearing genitalia |
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phalloplasty |
construction of a scrotum |
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urethroplasty |
creation of a urethral canal through the created penis |
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vaginectomy |
removal of the vagina |
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androgyny |
characteristics of a male of female who has masculine characteristics |
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gender stereotypes |
traditional notions about being masculine or feminine |
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gender roles |
behaviors, attitudes, and characteristics that any given society expects of males and females, are the bedrock of many societies' systems of power relations, are the foundation for the ideas of what constitutes masculinity and femininity |
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gender roles revolve around issues of |
security, reproduction, economic production |
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gender socialization |
assigning meaning, attitudes, and behaviors to our understanding of who we are as men and women |
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what are the forces that shape gender roles |
parents and caregivers, peer, school, the media, religion |
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sexism |
prejudice directed towards women, based on biological sex, assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of the differences between the sexes, and an ideology of male supremacy, superiority, and authority |
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gender nonconforming |
individuals who manifest gender behaviors that go beyond or against the norm of their community |
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gender variance |
nonconforming gender behavior that may result from the interaction of biology, culture, individual characteristics- personality and temperament |
