Gender Studies: Definitions, Movements, and Theoretical Approaches in Social Psychology

Sex

biological & physiological characteristics that distinguish maleness and femaleness (genitalia, sex chromosomes, reproductive hormones, etc.)

Gender

traits, interests, roles, tendencies, attitudes, stereotypes, appearance, and socialization practices that correspond with one's sex category(sociocultural norms, expressions, clothes, laws)

What is gender/sex?

Represents whole people or identities where gender and sex cannot be easily disentangled, as both biological and social factors produce the categories of sex and gender

Sex Binary

Gender Binary

Identify different forms of privilege

Gender as an intergroup context

Gender essentialism

Know and diDerentiate between gender movements (including diDerent waves of women's movement)

Know history of the study of gender within social psychology

Identify and differentiate between types of feminism

Minimal approach

Maximilast approach