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Chapter 2
Gender in Relationships
Key Terms
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• Sex– The biological distinction between females
and males.
• Gender– The social and psychological
characteristics associated with being female or male.
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• Hermaphrodites (Intersexed individuals)– Individuals with mixed or ambiguous
genitals.
• Gender identity– The psychological state of viewing oneself
as a girl or a boy, and later as a woman or a man.
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• Transgendered– Expressing characteristic different from
one’s biological sex.
• Cross-dresser– A broad term for individuals who may dress
or present themselves in the gender of the other sex.
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• Transvestite– Another term for crossdresser; commonly
associated with homosexual men who dress provocatively as women to attract men.
• Transsexual– Persons with the biological/anatomical sex
of one gender but the self-concept of the other sex.
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• Transgenderist– An individual who lives in a gender role
that does not match his or her biological sex but who has no desire to surgically alter his or her genitalia.
• Transgenderism– A political movement seeking to challenge
the belief that very person can be categorized simply as a woman or as a man.
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• Gender roles– Social norms that dictate what is socially
regarded as appropriate female and male behavior.
• Sex roles– Sex roles are defined by biological
constraints and can be enacted by members of one biological sex only—for example, wet nurse, sperm donor, child bearer.
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• Gender role ideology– Refers to beliefs about the proper role
relationships between women and men in any given society.
• Biosocial theory– Emphasizes that social behaviors (e.g.,
gender roles) are biologically based and have an evolutionary survival function.
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• Parental investment– Any investment by a parent that increases
the offspring’s chance of surviving and thus increases reproductive success.
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• Androgyny– Refers to a blend of traits that are
stereotypically associated with both masculinity and femininity.
• Positive androgyny– Devoid of the negative traits associated
with masculinity and femininity.
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• Female circumcision– Encompasses a wide range of
procedures, ranging in severity from a nick on the clitoral hood to cutting off all the external genitals and sewing up the vaginal opening.
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• Female genital mutilation
– Comprises all surgical procedures involving partial or total removal of the external genitalia or other injuries to the female genital organs for cultural or other non-therapeutic reasons.
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• Gender role transcendence– Involves abandoning gender schema so
that personality traits, social/occupational roles, and other aspects of our lives become divorced from gender categories.
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• Feminization of poverty– Refers to the disproportionate percentage
of poverty experienced by women living alone or with their children.