WOMS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cisgender, Pangender, Sexual Script Theory

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMS201
• Professor: Ellerby

Document Summary

Gender, (biological) sex and sexuality - how are these connected: gender (biological) sex and sexuality are all linked, but distinct ideas, gender - expression and identity of masculinities - femininities continuums. Sex - male, female, and intersexed: a lot of these are ways to challenge gender binary, agender, not identifying with a gender; genderless, androgyny, cisgender, genderqueer, rejection of standard binary, could include agender / androgyny/ etc, pangender. Sexuality is a lot of things: sexuality - the sexual knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, values, and behaviors if an individual. Its various dimensions involve the anatomy, physiology, and the biochemistry of sexual response system: identity, orientation, roles, personality, thoughts, feelings, and relationship. Sexuality is influenced by ethical, spiritual, cultural, and moral concerns: broad because a lot of things go into determining this. The many parts of sexual personhood - sexuality. Sexual orientation / identity - self -ascribed description of sexual desires, attraction and practices: can also imply an essential, unchanging orientation.