SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gender Binary, Cisgender, Genderqueer

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1001
• Professor: Charles Gibney

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Biological sex: male/female/intersex, male/female/intersex, often falsely applied to gender. Gender identity: binary/spectrum, gender inequality, how you in your head think about yourself. Ex: hormonal levels: identification with or sense of belonging to a particular gender category, cisgender: same as biological sex, transgender: different form of biological sex, genderqueer: catch all term for non-cis, gender nonconforming: refusal to gender identity. Social construction: includes physiological,emotional, and social processes. Lust, companionship,romance: represents a spectrum of attraction, both masculine and feminine traits exist in all of us, numerous sexual orientations and gender identities exist, lgbptttqqiiaa+ This a near-exhaustive list (but not exhaustive0. An expressed preference for sexual partners of the opposite sex: expressed preference is not necessarily the same as genuine desired preference. Reflects the dominant discourse regarding sexual orientation. Straight privilege of any of the sexual orientations. Sex out of the dominate discourse requires a qualifier: ex: gay, lesbian,bdsm etc, homophobia. A prejudiced fear towards people with non-heteronomative sexual orientations.