This is a list of vocabulary and concepts that may be on the Vocabulary test. I have tried to list them by reading, though many are used across readings so feel free to use your understanding of our readings as a whole. I encourage you to work together to define these terms and study. Feel free to reach out to one another about this. I can set up a zoom meeting for you all if you wish – just let me know. And please come to office hours Tuesday between 10 and 12 if you want to discuss any of the terms. If those hours do not work, I can find another time to meet with individuals or small groups.
Gender Stories: An Introduction
- Gender as equivalent to sex
- Gender as separate from sex
- Gender as the assignment of meaning to bodies
- Identity
- Social Learning Theory
- Cognitive Development Theory
- Symbolic Interaction
- Identity Layer/Frames: Personal, enacted, relational, communal
Challenging Binary Systems and Structures of Difference
- Binaries
- Binary systems
- sex/gender/sexuality system
- heteronormative
- socialization
- glass escalator
- cisgender (or “cis”)
- gender assignment
- gender identity
- transgender people
- Intersex
- homophobia
- compulsory monogamy
- heteronormativity
- multiple masculinities
- female masculinity
- meritocracy
- Cultural capital
Theories of Gender/Sex
- Biological Determinism
- Biological Theories
- Cognitive Development (also in Gender Stories)
- Critical/Cultural Theories
- Culture
- Ethnocentric
- Gender Diversity Perspective
- Interpretive
- Objective
- Patriarchy
- Postcolonialism
- Psychoanalytic theories
- Psychological Theories
- Queer Theory
- Social Learning Theory (also in Gender Stories)
- Social Reality
- Stereotype Threat
Bodies
- agency
- body privilege
- body surveillance
- disciplining gender
- embodied communication
- embodied movement
- embodied space
- gender performativity
- gendered attractiveness
- objectification
- refusing the command performance
- self-objectification
Feminist Philosophy of Language
- False gender-neutrality
- Invisibility of women
- Maleness as norm
- Sex-marking
- Encoding of male worldview
- Speech Act Theory (also in Performing Gender & Interpersonal Communication)
Gender in Social Institutions
- Cultural Ideology
- Hegemony
- Institutionalized discrimination
- Institutionalized Violence
- Macropolitics
- Mesopolitics
- Micropolitics
- Social Institutions
- Systemic Inequalities
Microaggressions in Everyday Life
- Microaggression
- Marginalized Groups
Intercultural Communication Needs Trans Studies
- trans*
- morphology
- cisprivilege
- cissexism
- transphobia
- intersectionality (also in a number of other readings)
