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Study Guide for Part III
- Identify and differentiate among sex, gender, and sexual orientation
- Sex
- Gender
- Roles
- Sex-appropriate behavior
- The Looking Glass Self
- The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
- Sexual Orientation-GLBT
- Straight Males
- Straight Females
- Gay (Males)
- Lesbian (Females)
- Bisexual
- Transgendered (Male to Female)
- Transgendered (Female to Male)
- Intersexed
- Use the Internet to display statistical information and historical legal status concerning sex, gender, and sexual orientation
- Compare and contrast the data found
- Discuss the GLBT movement
- Historically
- Presently
- GLBT Historical Society
- GLBT National Help Center
- The Civil Rights Coalition for the 21st Century
- LGBT Research Guide
- Use the Internet to display statistical information concerning the historical legal status of women in the United States
- Human Rights Watch: Women’s Rights (Global)
- Global Issues: Women’s Rights
- One Hundred Years toward Suffrage (A Timeline)
- Amnesty International: Women’s Human Rights
- Define and give examples for:
- Gender identity
- Sex roles
- Masculinity
- Femininity
- Discuss the various forms that inequality based on sex takes around the world
- Discuss the status of women in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
- Discuss the status of women in Japan
- Discuss the differences among religious strictures, legal doctrine, and cultural practices concerning women in various societies
- Discuss the various forms that inequality based sexual orientation takes around the world
- Discuss the differences among religious strictures, legal doctrine, and cultural practices concerning sexual orientation in various societies
- Discuss female genital mutilation
- WHO: Female Genital Mutilation
- Controversial Religious Topics: Female Genital Mutilation
- CIRP: Female Genital Mutilation (contains links)
- UNICEF: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
- Discuss the status of women in Third World countries
- WHO: Women’s Health
- United Nations: Women Watch
- United Nations Development Fund for Women
- United Nations: “World’s Women 2005: Progress in Statistics”
- Discuss rape as an act of war
- Rape of Women during Wartime
- Rape in War: Challenging the Tradition of Impunity
- BBC: “Rape in War a Growing Problem”
- BBC: “How Did Rape become a Weapon of War?”
- Amnesty International: Sudan: Darfur: Rape as a Weapon of War: Sexual Violence and Its Consequences
- CBS News: 60 Minutes: War against Women: The Use of Rape as a Weapon in Congo’s Civil War
- WILPF: War and Rape: Analytical Approaches
- Discuss the women’s movement
- Historically
- One Hundred Years toward Suffrage (A Timeline)
- Presently
- Women’s International Center
- Feminist Resources.com
- Feminist Majority Foundation
- National Organization for Women
- Association for Women’s Rights in Development