Sex and Gender Exam
How are sex and gender different? - ✔✔ correct answer •Sex refers to the physical or biological
differences in primary and secondary sexual characteristics.
•Gender refers to the social and cultural patterns attached to women and men or individual's gender
identity of being feminine or masculine.
How are sex roles different from gender roles? - ✔✔ correct answer Sex role: childbearing
Gender role: childrearing
What are the categories of sex and gender? - ✔✔ correct answer Sex Categories: Male v. Female (or
Intersex)
Male Bodied vs. Female-Bodied
Gender Categories: Masculine vs. Feminine (or Androgynous)
What is the relationship between sex and gender? - ✔✔ correct answer • Sex is not always equal to
gender.• But, gender is closely linked to one's biological sex.• In most countries, people rarely argue
about one's sex, but gender can differ across different societies and times.
What are the reasons of some men wearing high-heels? Do they all have different reasons? - ✔✔ correct
answer • Elite men in the 17th century wore high heels to distinguish themselves from ordinary people.
• Gender is about distinction.• Distinction => power, superiority, privilege, hierarchy • Is gender the sole
factor creating distinction? • Why is distinction problematic?
What does it mean that gender is about distinction? - ✔✔ correct answer - different for different groups
What are the reasons for gender distinction? - ✔✔ correct answer •Power, hierarchy, privilege
• In-group connection, sense of belonging, we-ness
Why is gender binary an ideology? Provide the definition of gender binary and offer counterexamples of
gender binary, drawing on other countries' examples. - ✔✔ correct answer ■Gender binary refers to the
idea that there are only two types of gender that are very opposite and contrasting-For example, male-
bodied people who are masculine and female-bodied people who are feminine
, Sex and Gender Exam
■In other words, we tend to dichotomize people into two different gender categories that are mutually
exclusive and in opposition to each other
.■Gender binary often creates an "us" vs. "them" mentality.
What does it mean that gender is fluid? - ✔✔ correct answer ■Gender is a fluid concept because gender
is socially constructed.-Meanings attached to gender is socially shared. -Meanings of gender can change
over time. -Depending on the needs of individuals, communities, and societies, female-bodied people
can play the roles associated with men, and vice versa.
What are gender binary glasses and why do we wear them? - ✔✔ correct answer ■Culture has taught us
to see objects, actions, symbols, etc., through gender binary glasses: a pair of lenses that separate
everything we see into masculine and feminine categories-Examples?■Gender binary glasses give us a
sense of cultural competence -an understanding of how members of a society typically think and
behave.
What are the problems associated with wearing gender binary glasses? - ✔✔ correct answer Distort our
vision
Daily impact on our lives: examples?Often lead to inequality and discrimination
How does the associative memory theory help us understand the persistence of gender binary glasses? -
✔✔ correct answer ■Brain encoding:
■Due to associative memory, which is the ability to make connections between concepts and ideas,
sometimes we are quick to remember stereotypical occurrences and forget or even change memories
that deviate from stereotypes
■Stereotypes
How does subdividing the binary protect the binary system? - ✔✔ correct answer ■Genderqueer
■Gender fluid
■Nonbinary
■Transgender (vs. Transsexual)
■Cisgender
How are sex and gender different? - ✔✔ correct answer •Sex refers to the physical or biological
differences in primary and secondary sexual characteristics.
•Gender refers to the social and cultural patterns attached to women and men or individual's gender
identity of being feminine or masculine.
How are sex roles different from gender roles? - ✔✔ correct answer Sex role: childbearing
Gender role: childrearing
What are the categories of sex and gender? - ✔✔ correct answer Sex Categories: Male v. Female (or
Intersex)
Male Bodied vs. Female-Bodied
Gender Categories: Masculine vs. Feminine (or Androgynous)
What is the relationship between sex and gender? - ✔✔ correct answer • Sex is not always equal to
gender.• But, gender is closely linked to one's biological sex.• In most countries, people rarely argue
about one's sex, but gender can differ across different societies and times.
What are the reasons of some men wearing high-heels? Do they all have different reasons? - ✔✔ correct
answer • Elite men in the 17th century wore high heels to distinguish themselves from ordinary people.
• Gender is about distinction.• Distinction => power, superiority, privilege, hierarchy • Is gender the sole
factor creating distinction? • Why is distinction problematic?
What does it mean that gender is about distinction? - ✔✔ correct answer - different for different groups
What are the reasons for gender distinction? - ✔✔ correct answer •Power, hierarchy, privilege
• In-group connection, sense of belonging, we-ness
Why is gender binary an ideology? Provide the definition of gender binary and offer counterexamples of
gender binary, drawing on other countries' examples. - ✔✔ correct answer ■Gender binary refers to the
idea that there are only two types of gender that are very opposite and contrasting-For example, male-
bodied people who are masculine and female-bodied people who are feminine
, Sex and Gender Exam
■In other words, we tend to dichotomize people into two different gender categories that are mutually
exclusive and in opposition to each other
.■Gender binary often creates an "us" vs. "them" mentality.
What does it mean that gender is fluid? - ✔✔ correct answer ■Gender is a fluid concept because gender
is socially constructed.-Meanings attached to gender is socially shared. -Meanings of gender can change
over time. -Depending on the needs of individuals, communities, and societies, female-bodied people
can play the roles associated with men, and vice versa.
What are gender binary glasses and why do we wear them? - ✔✔ correct answer ■Culture has taught us
to see objects, actions, symbols, etc., through gender binary glasses: a pair of lenses that separate
everything we see into masculine and feminine categories-Examples?■Gender binary glasses give us a
sense of cultural competence -an understanding of how members of a society typically think and
behave.
What are the problems associated with wearing gender binary glasses? - ✔✔ correct answer Distort our
vision
Daily impact on our lives: examples?Often lead to inequality and discrimination
How does the associative memory theory help us understand the persistence of gender binary glasses? -
✔✔ correct answer ■Brain encoding:
■Due to associative memory, which is the ability to make connections between concepts and ideas,
sometimes we are quick to remember stereotypical occurrences and forget or even change memories
that deviate from stereotypes
■Stereotypes
How does subdividing the binary protect the binary system? - ✔✔ correct answer ■Genderqueer
■Gender fluid
■Nonbinary
■Transgender (vs. Transsexual)
■Cisgender
