Women's Studies 1022F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cultural Relativism, Heteronormativity, Ethnocentrism

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Gender: the socially constructed roles that a given society considers appropriate for men and women. Gender describes the codes, behaviors, and ways of performing in the world that marks us feminine or masculine. These codes are deeply embedded socially and often manifested in unconscious ways. Intersectionality: the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. Intersectionality is a sociological theory about how an individual can face multiple threats of discrimination when their identities overlap a number of minority classes, such as race, gender, age, ethnicity etc. For example, a woman of color may face sexism in the workplace, which is compounded by subtle yet pervasive racism. Heteronormative patriarchy: heteronormative is an adjective used to describe the viewpoint of a person or persons. People who are heteronormative believe that there are only two genders.