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4.4: Key Terms and Concepts for Part III

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    Suggested Key Terms and Concepts for Part III—Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation

    “She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping”

    Androgyny

    Ascribed status

    Biological differences

    Bisexuality

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s

    Conflict Perspective

    Female genital mutilation (FGM)

    Femininity

    Feminism

    Feminist Theory

    FGM

    Functionalism

    Gay

    Gender

    Gender identity

    Gender roles

    Glass walls

    Glass-ceiling

    GLBT

    Heterosexuality

    Hochschild and Anne Machung

    Homophobia

    Homosexuality

    Homosocial reproduction

    Intersexed

    Lesbian

    Looking-Glass Self

    Mainstream feminism

    Margaret Mead

    Mary Daly

    Masculinity

    Minorities

    Modern feminism

    Queer Theory

    Radical lesbian feminism

    Rosabeth Moss Kanter

    Rosie the Riveter

    Sex

    Sex-appropriate behavior

    Sexism

    Social expectations

    Stereotypes

    Symbolic Interactionism

    The Second Shift

    Transgendered

    Women’s Movement


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