Comprehensive Study Guide on Gender, Identity, and Sex

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Subject Position
A socially recognized category of selfhood with a particular history that represents a culturally available mode of being.
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Subjectivity
An individual's internal perceptions, feelings of self, lived experiences, and the felt reality of living in a particular subject position.
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Binary Thinking
A cognitive framework that categorizes concepts, people, and social conditions into two distinct, opposing groups while emphasizing difference over similarity.
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Erasure
The systematic removal, omission, or exclusion of specific voices, practices, or histories from public narratives and institutional representations.
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Gender Ideology
A shared set of cultural beliefs and norms defining roles, traits, and expectations within a specific society.
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Performative Utterance
An utterance in Speech Act Theory that executes a social action or creates a new social reality, such as 'I promise'.
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Constative Utterance
A statement that describes a pre-existing reality without altering social relations, such as 'The sky is cloudy'.
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Iconic Sign
A sign that visually or physically depicts the object or concept it represents.
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Symbolic Sign
A sign that has no inherent physical link to what it represents, operating strictly through arbitrary social convention.
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Indexical Sign
A sign that points directly to what it represents through a causal or associative link, such as smoke indexing fire.
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Intersectionality
A framework coined by Kimberle Crenshaw examining how overlapping social categories interact within compounding systems of domination.
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Bechdel Test
A benchmark measuring female representation in media, requiring at least two named women talking to each other about something other than a man.
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Gerewol
An annual week-long courtship ritual and beauty contest held by the semi-nomadic Wodaabe pastoralists of West Africa.
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Speech Act Theory
A linguistic concept introduced by J. L. Austin asserting that language performs social actions rather than simply describing reality.