Title: Gender in Crosscultural Perspective Flashcards
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Content: They illustrate the recent focus on gender and on the multiple positions that men and women hold in societies in which the domestic-public dichotomy seems inappropriate. This is because these spheres are integrated and there is no firm line between domestic and public space. The Comanche are an example of how men and women live relatively autonomous, the concept of feminity was not elaborated and the greatest status differences were between unmarried and married men. Another example is Nelson’s study of Middle Eastern societies where women are born in one patrilineal group and marry into another, thus serving as important links and mediators. Term
What is the relationship of “the big four”: biological sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation
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Biological sex
Male, Intersexed, Female
Gender Identity
Man, third gender, two spirited, hijra, woman
Gender expression
Masculine, androgyne, feminine
Sexual orientation
Attracted to men, attracted to people, attracted to women

Term
Be able to discuss gender diversity in terms of “the big four,” transgender, transsexual, and the terms under “the umbrella” (see power point- literal umbrella). Definition
Transgender
inclusive sex/gender category including both transexuals and others who keep feminine and masculine characteristics
Transexual
a person who considers him/herself to be the gender opposite to that of his/her anatomy-some go through sex reassignment surgery. Umbrella
anyone who is either a female impersonater, inter sexed, male impersonator, transvestites, masculine woman, effinate man, transexuals, drag queens, transgenderists, crossdressers, drag kings

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What are some ways researchers have tried to predict gender diversity in society
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Gender differientation
Indian (high), and American Indian and Polynesian Cultures (low)
Gender not determined by anatomical sex or anatomical sex is unstable, fluid and non-dichotomous
Worldwide view or cosmology
cultural concept of person

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Polynesian gender diversity specifically the fa’afafine
Definition
Sociocentric society: gender is a social role, not rooted in the individual
Egocentic society: having or regarding the self or the individual as the center of all things: