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12 Cards in this Set
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Cultural construction of gender
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Gender and gender realtions
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Gender
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Cultural and social classification of masculine and feminine
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Gender ideology
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Totality of ideas about sex, gender, the natures between genders, and relations between genders
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Gender role
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The public image of being male or female that a person presents to others
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Gender stratification
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Cultural ways that status, roles, and power are divided among genders w/in a society
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Hijra
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Ambiguous gender role; born male, considered neither man or woman; genitals surgically removed (considered a rebirth); Hijras' presence required at weddings and at the birth of a child
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Manhood puzzle
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Widespread male need to publicity test and prove one's manhood
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Matriarchy
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Female dominance
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Patriarchy
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Male dominance
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Private/public dichotomy
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Female subordination based on woman's universal role as mothers and homemakers
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Rite of passage
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A ritual or ceremony signifying an event in a person's life indicative of a transition from one stage to another, as from adolescence to adulthood
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Sex
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Biological differences between male and female
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