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25 Cards in this Set
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Sex
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refers to biological differences (the parts)
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Cultural Construction of Gender
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The idea that the characteristics a people attribute to males
and females is culturally, not biologically determined. |
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Gender roles
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the tasks and activities that a culture assigns to the sexes.
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Gender stereotypes
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are oversimplified but strongly held ideas of the characteristics of men and
women. |
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Gender
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the cultural construction of male and
female characteristics (the roles) |
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Cultural Construction of Gender
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The idea that the characteristics a people attribute to males
and females is culturally, not biologically determined. |
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Gender stereotypes
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are oversimplified but strongly held ideas of the characteristics of men and
women. |
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Hua of Papua New Guinea
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Patrilineal, horticultural people. Gender is constructed based on female-male differences that are not recognized by people
outside of Papua, New Guinea. |
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Human bodies and food items contain varying amounts of a life-giving substance called
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nu
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Females have an excess of nu
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they grow faster, age more slowly and are unattractively moist.
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Men contain a smaller amount of nu
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they have difficulty with growth and maintenance of
vitality later in life, but are attractively dry. |
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Figapa
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Their bodies contain substances symbolically considered feminine (lots of nu).
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Kakora
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Eligible to live in the men's houses and to obtain the secret “male” knowledge gained
during initiation ceremonies (minimal nu). |
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Gender Crossing
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The adoption of social roles and behaviors normatively appropriate for the
opposite biological sex from one’s own. |
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Multiple Gender Identities
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The recognition, present in some cultures, of more than two
genders. up to 4 genders |
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Sexual Division of Labor
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The kinds of productive activities that are assigned to women
versus men in a culture. |
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Physical Strength
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Work tasks requiring greater strength are mainly performed by
males. |
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Fertility Maintenance
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Prolonged physical exercise can depress female fertility, so
most strenuous tend to be done by males. |
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Compatibility with Childcare
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Women tend to perform tasks that can be combined
efficiently with childcare. |
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Economy of Effort
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May be more advantageous for a gender to do tasks that follow in
a production sequence (e.g. wood cutters make wood objects); may also be advantageous for a gender to perform tasks located near each other (childcare and domestic chores). |
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Expendability
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Men do more hard/dangerous tasks because they are more expendable.
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Gender Stratification
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the degree of inequality between males and females based on culturally
defined differences between the sexes. |
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Equality disappeared how many years ago?
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10,000
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the closest way of life closest to equal is
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horticulture
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Relative gender equality is most likely
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the ancestral pattern of human society.
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