WGS QUIZ 3 2026/2027 | WOMEN'S & GENDER STUDIES STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE QUESTIONS,
ANSWERS & REVIEW
Gender assignment - ANS ✔✔what happens when physicians, parents, and others, assumes a sex based
on perceived biology and assign sex, female or male
Gender acquisition - ANS ✔✔through socialization; people perform aspects of gender and learn how to
behave in ways deemed culturally masculine or feminine
body surveillance - ANS ✔✔watching over and disciplining our bodies in response to internalized
feelings, which have been created by cultural messages
Intersex - ANS ✔✔a term used for people who are born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy and/or
chromosome pattern that does not seem to fit typic definitions of male or female
Gender binary - ANS ✔✔idea that biologically and culturally there are 2 sexes/genders
Non-binary - ANS ✔✔refers to gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine
Gender identity - ANS ✔✔An individual's internal sense of being male, female or non-binary
Transgender - ANS ✔✔a term for people whose gender identity, expression or behavior is different from
those typically associated with other assigned sex at birth
Cisgender - ANS ✔✔refers to people who are comfortable with the gender they were assigned at birth
Colonizers (Spanish and English) - ANS ✔✔gender non contemporary of indigenous peoples became a
rationale for colonizing/ assimilating
Women-men - ANS ✔✔males in a role traditionally assumed by women
Men-women - ANS ✔✔females in a role traditionally assumed by men
Navajo nadleeh - ANS ✔✔someone who is a constant process of change- feminine into masculine
Two spirit - ANS ✔✔a reclaimed kind of term to acknowledge the past and present of gender diversity in
indigenous
"Decolonizing" indigenous communities - ANS ✔✔reasserting tribal traditions, languages and
sovereignty
Outdated terms - ANS ✔✔Transsexual- replaced with transgender
Transvestite- considered derogatory, replaced with "cross dressing"
Sexual orientation - ANS ✔✔Attracted to
Queer - ANS ✔✔-Term often claimed by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning people
ANSWERS & REVIEW
Gender assignment - ANS ✔✔what happens when physicians, parents, and others, assumes a sex based
on perceived biology and assign sex, female or male
Gender acquisition - ANS ✔✔through socialization; people perform aspects of gender and learn how to
behave in ways deemed culturally masculine or feminine
body surveillance - ANS ✔✔watching over and disciplining our bodies in response to internalized
feelings, which have been created by cultural messages
Intersex - ANS ✔✔a term used for people who are born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy and/or
chromosome pattern that does not seem to fit typic definitions of male or female
Gender binary - ANS ✔✔idea that biologically and culturally there are 2 sexes/genders
Non-binary - ANS ✔✔refers to gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine
Gender identity - ANS ✔✔An individual's internal sense of being male, female or non-binary
Transgender - ANS ✔✔a term for people whose gender identity, expression or behavior is different from
those typically associated with other assigned sex at birth
Cisgender - ANS ✔✔refers to people who are comfortable with the gender they were assigned at birth
Colonizers (Spanish and English) - ANS ✔✔gender non contemporary of indigenous peoples became a
rationale for colonizing/ assimilating
Women-men - ANS ✔✔males in a role traditionally assumed by women
Men-women - ANS ✔✔females in a role traditionally assumed by men
Navajo nadleeh - ANS ✔✔someone who is a constant process of change- feminine into masculine
Two spirit - ANS ✔✔a reclaimed kind of term to acknowledge the past and present of gender diversity in
indigenous
"Decolonizing" indigenous communities - ANS ✔✔reasserting tribal traditions, languages and
sovereignty
Outdated terms - ANS ✔✔Transsexual- replaced with transgender
Transvestite- considered derogatory, replaced with "cross dressing"
Sexual orientation - ANS ✔✔Attracted to
Queer - ANS ✔✔-Term often claimed by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning people
