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