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17 Cards in this Set
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the removal of a woman's sexually sensitive clitoris
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female circumcision
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an intellectual, consciousness-raising movement to get people to understand that gender is and organizing principle of life; women and men should be equal
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feminism
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the biological differences that distinguish male from female
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sex
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refers to desire, sexual preference, sexual identity, and behavior
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sexuality
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denotes a social position, the set of social arrangements, that are built around sex categories
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gender
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line of thought that explains social phenomena in terms of natural ones
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essentialism
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a line of thought that explains social behavior in terms of biological givens
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biological determinism
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dominant and privileged, if invisible, category of men
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hegemonic masculinity
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sets of behavioral norms assumed to accompany one's status as a male or female
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gender roles
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a nearly universal system involving the subordination of femininity to masculinity
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patriarchy
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theoretical tradition claiming that every society has certain structures which exist in order to fulfill some set of functions
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structural functionalism
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Talcott Parson's theory that men and women perform their sex roles as breadwinners and wives/mothers respectively, because the nuclear family is the ideal arrangement in modern societies, fulfilling the function of reproducing workers
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sex role theory
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the social identity of a person who has sexual attraction to and/or relations with other persons of the same sex
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homosexual
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occurs when a person's sex or gender is the basis for judgment, discrimination, and hatred against him or her
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sexism
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an illegal form of discrimination, involving everything from inappropriate jokes on the job to outright sexual assault to sexual "barter"
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sexual harassment
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an invisible limit on women's climb up the occupational ladder
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glass ceiling
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the promotional ride men take to the top of a work organization, especially in feminized jobs
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glass escalator
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