THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

Theorizing Difference

Sex and Gender

The biological characteristics

of men and women

the social statuses and

meanings assigned to

men and women

Sex Gender

Theories On Gender

biological sex differences create the behavioral

differences in men and women.

differences in men’s and women’s

behaviors are cultural and vary among societies.

Essentialist Social Constructionist

Gender is…

① a process that humans create; ② a stratification system that

ranks people;③ a structure that organizes life.

Transgender

“a way of being a man or a woman, or a way of marking resistance to those terms”

(p.88)

Transgender Phenomena

“anything that disrupts or denaturalizes normative

gender, and which calls our attention to the processes

through which normativity is produced and atypicality achieves visibility” (p. 85)

Intersex

a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a

person is born with a reproductive or sexual

anatomy that doesn't seem to fit the typical definitions of

female or male.

Hegemonic Masculinity

Some dominant forms of masculinity are honored and

valued over other subordinated forms of

masculinity.