WGS Exam 1 PASSED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Androgyny - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔combination of masculine and feminine
characteristics
Cisgender - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔people whose gender identity or expression matches
their assigned gender at birth
gender expression - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the way in which a person expresses their
gender identity, typically through their appearance, dress, and behavior.
gender identity - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔how people see themselves, as male or female,
or something else
hegemonic masculinity - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Masculine gender role that encourages
competition for power, subordination of women, control over fears and emotions, and
heterosexual behavior
Heteronormativity - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔presumption that heterosexuality is ideal &
normal, desirable, inherently right & should be rewarded
Heteropatriarchy - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔societal norm of heterosexual couples in
which man has more power than the woman.
Heterosexism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔inherent superiority of one sexual orientation
overall others and heterosexual dominance
Homophobia - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔fear or hatred of homosexuals
Intersex - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy
that doesn't seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male.
Pansexuality - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔attraction to members of all sexes and gender
identities
queer - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔people who do do not embrace the heterosexual/homo
binary or who- are gender fluid
Rules of gender - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔societal expectations for rigid distinctions b/w
males and females
sex - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔biological characteristics with which one is born
sexual orientation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔refers to a person's preference for emotional
and sexual relationships with individuals of the same sex, the other sex, or either sex
Transgender - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔individuals who gender expressions differs from
their sex assigned at birth
Transsexual - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔people who change sex from what they were at
birth
Transphobia - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔fear or hatred of trans people
Curanderas - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Hispanic healers who used massage in their
tradition of folk medicine
the male gaze - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
Decolonial feminism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔intersectional feminism: undoing the
structural, psychic, and spiritual effects
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