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Gender Study Guide 2010














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To help prepare for the Midterm and Final exams (not comprehensive- but a great start)















Vocabulary and concepts from the texts and readings to know:

Mead and Fortune
ambivalent sexism       
visual dominance         
doing gender        
envious
prejudice       
hostile sexism      
paternalistic prejudice  
mortality gap
gendered
matrilocal residence     
modern sexism
biogenic factors
testosterone and aggression
sexual standards of beauty
myths that justify inequality
benevolent sexism         
neosexism         
men 
illusion of gender neutrality          
women
status of women
Etero  
most violent group   
Xanith    
Hwame     
Alyaha      
1800s     
Siwans    
Nahane    
Arandi    
Keraki        
!Kung     
Mehinaku    
Nadle 
group harmony    
Yanomamo     
non-conformity       
Sambia      
Marind-anim      
Mundugumor      
Iroquois     
Tchambuli  
multiple masculinities   
1970s 
berdache     
sexual deviance      
Arapesh
self disclosure
statistical differences between the sexes

Mostly for the Final:
doubts whether they were still loved by their husbands
child homicides
Chodorow
putting aside the mask       
1950s     
E. P. Thompson    
girls   
New York Times  
interdependent self      
CAIS     
core gender identity    
Yuman Indians     
Lame Deer
unladylike     
full time housewifery     
Agnes    
power; empowered   
mid 18th century
rapists    
working mothers    
structure of the organization    
marriage     
reasons for 2 spirits   
1909 v. 19th century    
Freud  
Turner's syndrome    
gender identity disorder     
MTF     
independent self   
Newsweek     
the traditional family    
gender socialization    
many American Indian tribe     
dihydrotesterine     
Klinefelter's syndrome      
embryonic     
Tannen   
highly involved fathers     
CAH    
American wives who work full time    
dihydrotesterine      
sexual differentiation    
two spirits    
transgendered
movement    
FTM    
# of hours worked or how much they earned    
female MD    
Rubin    
feeling rules   
the greater the couples risk of divorce
collective shaming
identity is financially threatened
stereotyped femininity
passionately romantic friendships
boundaries can be so easily breached
simultaneously cooperative and competitive
'his' and 'her' divorces
median duration of marriage
professional wives
engaged in unwanted sexual intercourse
often thinking alike
the presence of children
adolescent children of working mothers
also better fathers
increase their time spent in housework
full range of feelings
gendered social structures