Sex - ✔✔ correct answer refers to the physical or biological differences in primary and secondary sexual
characteristics
Gender - ✔✔ correct answer refers to the social and cultural patterns attached to women and men or
individual's identity of being feminine or masculine
Distinction - ✔✔ correct answer efforts to distinguish one's own group from others
Sex Role - ✔✔ correct answer physical or biological differences
Gender Role - ✔✔ correct answer roles expected of an individual based on their perceived gender
Masculine - ✔✔ correct answer things we associate with men
Feminine - ✔✔ correct answer things we associate with women
Androgynous - ✔✔ correct answer when a person blends masculinity and femininity or absence of
gender cues
How are sex and gender different? - ✔✔ correct answer gender refers to social and cultural patterns
attached to women/men; Sex refers to biological and physical differences in primary and secondary
categories
How are sex roles different from gender roles? - ✔✔ correct answer gender is about distinction
What are categories of sex and gender? - ✔✔ correct answer male vs female; male-bodied vs female-
bodied; masculine vs feminine
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
, Sex and Gender Exam 1
What are the reasons of some men wearing high heels? Do they all have different reasons? - ✔✔ correct
answer was a sign of royalty; some wore them for drag/transgender reasons; wore inserts to feel taller
What does it mean that gender is about distinction? - ✔✔ correct answer power, hierarchy, privilege; in-
group connection, sense of belonging, we-ness
Gender Binary - ✔✔ correct answer refers to the idea that there are only two types of gender that are
very opposite and contrasting; Is an ideology
Gender Ideology - ✔✔ correct answer set of ideas widely shared by members of a society that guides
identities, behaviors, and institutions
Transgender - ✔✔ correct answer people with identities that cross over, move between, or otherwise
challenge the socially constructed gender binary system
Gender Dysphoria - ✔✔ correct answer a term used to describe the discomfort some people experience
with the relationship between their bodies' assigned sex and their gender identity
Gender Fluid - ✔✔ correct answer without a fixed gender identity
Cisgender - ✔✔ correct answer individuals who have a match between the gender they were assigned at
birth, their bodies and their personal ID
Gender Binary Glasses - ✔✔ correct answer a pair of lenses that separate everything we see into
masculine and feminine categories
Gender Binary Subdivisions - ✔✔ correct answer the practice by which we divide and redivide by gender
again and again, adding finer and finer degrees of masculinity and femininity to the world
Associative Memory - ✔✔ correct answer ability to make connections between concepts and ideas