WOMS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dysphoria, Body Language, Bigender

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMS200
• Professor: Andrea Glass-Heffner

Document Summary

Is sex influenced: primary vs. secondary sex characteristics. Ideal male and ideal female -- in the media. Intersex: 1 in 200 people are intersex, think of your facebook friends, people whose a(cid:374)ato(cid:373)(cid:455) does (cid:374)ot fit i(cid:374)to either of societ(cid:455)"s t(cid:455)pical defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374)s of male or female. Identification documents: government forms, medical papers, bathrooms, voting ballots, test questionnaires, dating sites, applications. Interests (men in serious stuff, sports: money (pay gap, reliance on husband, clothes, bodies/hair (females should shave, short hair is masculine) Gender roles: breadwinner (man, housekeeper (woman, nurturer (woman, fashionista (woman, athlete (man, planner (woman) Gender options: binary, non-binary, multiple, flowing between, no gender. Gender identity: how someone understands their personal gender, desires to be received by others. Gender expression: clothes, language, voice, name, pronouns, makeup, hair, body language. Gender dysphoria: distress/unhappiness because gender does not equate to their sex attached at birth, triggered by media/society, opposite: gender euphoria.