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Gender

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Sex   the perceived biological differences that society typically uses to distinguish males from females  
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Gender   a social position; behaviors and a set of attributes that are associated with sex identities  
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Sexuality   desire, sexual preference, and sexual identity and behavior  
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Essentialist   arguments explaining social phenomena in terms of natural biological, or evolutionary inevitabilities  
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Androgynous   neither masculine or feminine  
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Transgender   describes people whose gender does not correspond to their birth sex  
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Cisgender   people whose gender DOES correspond to their birth sex  
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Hegemonic Masculinity   the condition in which men are dominant and privileged, and this dominance and privilege is invisible  
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Feminism   a social movement to get people to understand that gender is an organizing principle in society and to address gender-based inequalities that intersect with other forms of social identity  
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Patriarchy   a nearly universal system involving the subordination of femininity to masculinity  
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Structural Functionalism   theoretical tradition claiming that every society has certain structures (the family, the division of labor, or gender) that exist to fulfill some set of necessary functions (reporduction of species, production of goods, etc)  
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Sex Role Theory   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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Intersection-ality   the idea that it is critical to understand the interplay between social identities such as race, class, gender, ability status, and sexual orientation, even though many social systems and instituation (the law) try to treat each category as it's own  
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Matrix of Domination   intersecting domains of oppression that creat a social space of domination and, by extension, a uniqkue position within that space based on someone's intersectional identity along the multiple dimensions of gender, age, race, class, sexuality, location, a  
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Sexism   occurs when a persons sex or gender is the basis for judgement, discrimination, or other differential treatment against that person  
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Sexual Harrassment   an illegal form of discrimiation revolving around sexuality that can involve everything from jokes to sexual barter (requests) to assault  
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Glass ceiling   an invisible limit on women's climb up the occupation ladder  
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Glass escalator   the accelerated promotion of men to the top of a work organization, especially in feminized jobs  
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Bisexual   an individual who is sexually attracted to both genders/sexes  
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Homosexual   the social identity of a person who has sexual attraction to and /or relations with people of the same sex  
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Heteronormativity   the idea that heterosexuality is the default or normal sexual oritentation from which other sexualitites deviate  
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