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WGS Module 2
WGS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How are contemporary feminist scholarship and theory constructed? | socially |
| How does WGS view gender? | as a system of classification |
| Gender is a(n) ________ system of classification | abstract |
| When were the terms gender and sex differentiated in the Oxford dictionary? | 20th century |
| What does biological determinism argue? | gender is a product of nature (biology) |
| What does social constructionism argue? | gender is a product of socialization (something we learn socially) |
| What is Simone de Beauvoir famously quoted for in her book 'The Second Sex'? | One is not born, but rather becomes woman |
| What are gender norms? | the unwritten cultural rules that set out the distinct behaviours expected by women and men / the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities, and attributes considered appropriate for each gender. |
| What is gender conformity? | the successful performance of gender norms |
| Biological determinism is also known as what kind of perspective? | essentialist |
| Gender is organized in a ______ form. | binary |
| How does Elizabeth Gross define dualism in her book 'Volatile Bodies'? | the assumption that there are two distinct, mutually exclusive, and mutually exhaustive substances- mind and body- each of which inhabits its own sphere. |
| Western philosophy about the mind and body often relies on what kind of thinking? | dualist |
| In Western thinking, is the mind or the body more important? | mind |
| Western dualism is a set of beliefs imposed on the world, they are not __________. | objective |
| What is gender dualism? | the thought that there are only two genders, men and women- and they are opposites. |
| What is gender socialization? | the varied social process through which individuals learn the social expectations that are associated with gender roles; this includes understanding the rewards associated with gender conformity and punishments associated with gender nonconformity. |
| What is gender identity? | a person's internal, individual experience of gender; it is not visible to others. |
| What is gender presentation? | The appearance usually associated with a gender. Gender can be expressed, for example, through behaviour, clothing, hairstyle, voice inflections and body language. A person's gender expression is not necessarily associated with their gender identity. |
| What is gender freedom? | The right that each person ought to have to define, determine, or change their sex in any way they choose—whether female, male, or any point on the spectrum between. And that includes the right to physical ambiguity and contradiction. |
| What is Cisgender? | a person whose gender identity aligns with their sex assigned at birth; the opposite of transgender. |
| What is Transgender? | a person whose gender does not align with the sex they were assigned at birth; the opposite of cisgender. |
| What did Bill C-16 of 2017 do? | guaranteed the protection of rights of trans and gender-diverse people in Canada |
| What is gender policing? | the ways that parents, teachers, friends, family, and strangers make it difficult for people to live in ways that are are not contained within the gender binary |
| Does gender policing always look negative? | No. although it can take the form of unwanted attention, street harassment, and physical violence, it can also look like loving advice. |
| When did the concept that there were only two genders founded on two biological sexes start to predominate in western culture? | early 18th century (1700s) |
| What were feminine men and masculine women called in the 1700s, which were also thought of as the third and fourth genders? | mollies (m = men) and tommies (tom = tomboy) |
| What are the two important tasks discussed in Feinberg's novel 'To be or not to be'? | - to join the fight to strip away the discriminatory and oppressive values attached to masculinity and femininity - to defend gender freedom |
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