FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cross-Dressing, Gender Binary, Cisgender

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Ruth Neustifter

Document Summary

Ie anatomy and what you can see about their body. Social attitudes and behaviours of males and females. Performance you give about masculinity or femininity or neither. Role: behaviour associated with someone who holds a particular status. Gender role: behaviour expected of a female or male in a particular culture. Socialization: process by which people learn the characteristics of their group. Ge(cid:374)der ide(cid:374)tit(cid:455): a perso(cid:374)"s ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hologi(cid:272)al se(cid:374)se of (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:373)ale or fe(cid:373)ale or. Stereotyped beliefs about occupations and activities that are not flexible. Overlap in characteristics of males and females. More flexible, more likely to not believe in stereotypes males have less flexibility. Gender binary: the categorization of gender into two distinct opposite sexes. Trans/transgender: and umbrella term applied to those whose gender identity is not the same as the sex they were assigned at birth. Cisgender: someone who identifies exclusively as their sex assigned at birth.