5. Gender ?
is a socially constructed definition of women and
men. It is not the same as sex (biological
characteristics of women and men) and it is not
the same as women.
Something that we “do” or perform
Refers to the physical, behavioral, social,
psychological, cultural, and personal traits a
group consider normal for its male and female
members.
6. In order to distinguish biological differences
from social/psychological ones and to talk
about the latter, feminists appropriated the
term ‘gender’ .
Psychologist writing transsexuality were the
first to employ gender terminology in this
sense.
Until the 1960s, ‘gender’ was used solely to
refer to masculine and feminine, words, like el
and la in French.
7. Robert Stoller 1968
the phenomenon of transsexuality
Transsexual sex and gender.
Gayle Rubin
for instances describes a set of arrangements by
which the biological raw material of human sex
procreation is shaped by human , social intervention
1975 “socially imposed division of the sexes”
However, since gender is social , it is thought to be
mutable and alterable by political and social reform
that would ultimately bring an end to women’s
subordination.
8. Interpretation sex and gender were thought to
complement one another.
the slogan, “Gender is the social
interpretation of sex” Nicholson call this
‘coat-rack view ’ of gender : our sexed bodies
are like coat racks and “ provide the site upon
which gender is constructed 1994.
Gender conceived of as masculinity and
femininity is super imposed the ‘ coat-rack’ of
sex as each society imposes on sexed bodies
their cultural conceptions of how males and
females should behave.
9. Cultures interpret sexed bodies are differently and
project different norms on those bodies thereby
creating feminine and masculine person.
Haslanger 2000; Stoljar 1995 also enables the
two to come part: they separable in that one
can be sexed male and female yet be gendered
a women or vice versa.
10. GENDER is our social and legal status as girls and
boys, women and men.
Gender identity is how you feel about and
express your gender.
Cultures determines gender roles and what is
musculine and feminine.
11. GENDER AS SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED
1. Gender socialization
2. Gender as feminine and masculine
personality
3. Gender as feminine and masculine sexuality
13. Gender Equality
• Also known as “sex”, “gender egalitarianism”,
and “equality of gender”. The view that
everyone should receive equal treatment and
not be discriminated against based on their
gender.
14. Gender Fluid
• Refers to a gender which varies overtime.
• A person may at any time identity as male and
female or neuter or any other non-binary
identity or some combination of identities.
• Active mix of boy and girl.
15. Gender Polarization
• Is a concept in sociology - states that societies
tend to define femininity and masculinity as
polar opposite genders.
16. Gender Identity
• the persons thinks about or recognizes their
own gender, meaning whether you think
yourself as man or woman.
17. Gender Preference
• the intellectual and emotional acceptance of
a person’s own birth gender.
18. Gender adoption
• the long process of learning what a man and
woman are like in terms of traditional gender
characteristics.
19. Gender Identification
• a personally acceptable interpretation of
person own masculinity and femininity.
20. Gender roles
are the way people act,
what they do and say, to
express being a girl or a
boy, a woman or a man.
Gender Stereotypes are
over- generalizations
about the characteristics
of an entire group based
on gender, perceive as
having negative
connotations they can
also have positive ones
well.
21. Types of Gender
Feminine traits are way of behaving that cultures
usually associates with being a girl or woman.
22. WORDS COMMONLY USED TO
DESCRIBE FEMININITY
Dependent Emotional passive
Sensitive quite Graceful
Innocent Weak Flirtatious
Nurturing Self - critical Soft
Sexually
submission
Accepting
23. Masculine traits are ways of behaving that our
culture usually associates with being a boy or
man.
24. WORDS COMMONLY USED TO
DESCRIBE MASCULINITY
Independent Non-emotional Aggressive
Touched-skinned Competitive clumsy
Experienced Strong self confident
Hard Sexually
aggressive
rebellious
25. • Transgender (either “gay” or “lesbian”) is a
term used to describe people whose gender
identity differs from the sex the doctor
marked on their birth certificate.
30. 1. It is a socially constructed definition of
women and men. It is not the same as sex
(biological characteristics of women and men)
and it is not the same as women.
A. Sexuality
B. Gender
C. Sex
D. Both B and C
31. 2. This refers to a gender which varies overtime.
A person may at any time identity as male and
female or neuter or any other non-binary
identity or some combination of identities.
A. Gender Fluid
B. Gender Identity
C. Gender Equity
D. Gender Equality
32. 3. In 1968, he introduced the phenomenon of
transsexuality.
A. Donald Trump
B. Hilary Clinton
C. Robert Stoller
D. Robert Hooke
E. Robert Stroller
33. 4. These perceive as having negative
connotations they can also have positive ones
well.
A. Gender Roles
B. Gender Types
C. Transgender
D. Gender Stereotypes
E. Hermaphrodite
34. 5. It is also known as “gender egalitarianism”
A. Gender Quality
B. Gender Quantity
C. Gender Organism
D. Gender Inequality
E. Gender Equality
