1 Psychology 320: Psychology of Gender and Sex Differences September 15 Lecture 2

2 Invitational Office Hours Research indicates that faculty contact predicts students’ academic success. Each week, I will invite a random selection of students to meet with me for an informal chat about course content, graduate school, their interests, etc. Attendance is optional. Office hours are open to all students, including those who are not listed for invitational office hours.

3 Office Hour Invitations September 17, 2:30-4:30PM, Kenny

A little R&R …. (Review and Reflect) 4

5 Concerns noted last class: 1. Inclusive research: sex, gender, sexual orientation? 2. Inclusive research: culture, ethnicity? 3. Unintentional exclusion in language?

6 Introductory Concepts 1.What is gender?

7 By the end of today’s class, you should be able to: 1. distinguish between sex, gender, and sexual orientation. 2. define the term intersectionality. 3. speculate on the social and psychological effects of binary conceptualizations of sex and gender.

8 What is gender? Discuss your understanding of the following terms with a classmate. How would you define each of these terms? Which of these terms would you associate with sex? With gender? With sexual orientation?

9 Ally Asexual Bigender Bisexual Cisgender Cross dresser Gay Genderqueer Heterosexual Homosexual Intersectionality Intersex Lesbian LGBTQ Pangender Pansexual Polyamorous Queer Queer heterosexuality Questioning Straight Third gender Transgender Transsexual Trigender Two-spirit

10 Sex: Biological categories; based on physical features (e.g., genitalia, chromosomes, hormones). Gender: Social categories; based on the psychological characteristics and role attributes that society assigns to the biological sexes. Sexual orientation: An individual’s emotional and erotic orientation toward members of the same sex or another sex.

11 Sex, gender, and sexual orientation are independent variables (Constantinople, 1973; Lewin, 1984). Sex and gender are the primary variables investigated by gender psychologists. When interpreting research, we must recognize that “intersectionality” among variables (e.g., sex, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, class, ability, age) impacts individual experience.

Taking Difference into Account Examples 12

13 Western societies tend to adopt binary conceptualiz- ations of: Sex: Female vs. male. Gender: Feminine/female identity vs. masculine/male identity.

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24 “Mrs. Doubtfire” “Tootsie”

25 Dame Edna Everage RuPaul

26 Boy GeorgeAnnie Lennox

27 Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie) Marilyn Manson

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Chaz Bono 29 Caitlyn Jenner

30 Brandon Teena “Boys Don’t Cry”

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32 Storm, the “Genderless” Child

33 THINK ABOUT IT Do you think that it would be beneficial or harmful to raise a child without gender?

34 By the end of today’s class, you should be able to: 1. distinguish between sex, gender, and sexual orientation. 2. define the term intersectionality. 3. speculate on the social and psychological effects of binary conceptualizations of sex and gender.