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    This document discusses concepts related to gender, sexuality, and communication. It defines terms like sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality. It explains that sex is biological while gender is a social construct. Gender identity refers to one's internal sense of gender, which may or may not align with their sex assigned at birth. Examples of gender identities discussed include cisgender, transgender, non-binary, and intersex. The document also distinguishes between sex and gender roles, and stereotypes. Overall, it provides an overview of key terminology used when discussing issues of gender and sexuality.

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    This document discusses concepts related to gender, sexuality, and communication. It defines terms like sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality. It explains that sex is biological while gender is a social construct. Gender identity refers to one's internal sense of gender, which may or may not align with their sex assigned at birth. Examples of gender identities discussed include cisgender, transgender, non-binary, and intersex. The document also distinguishes between sex and gender roles, and stereotypes. Overall, it provides an overview of key terminology used when discussing issues of gender and sexuality.

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    5 Diversity and Maternal Child Nursing

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    This document discusses concepts related to gender, sexuality, and communication. It defines terms like sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality. It explains that sex is biological while gender is a social construct. Gender identity refers to one's internal sense of gender, which may or may not align with their sex assigned at birth. Examples of gender identities discussed include cisgender, transgender, non-binary, and intersex. The document also distinguishes between sex and gender roles, and stereotypes. Overall, it provides an overview of key terminology used when discussing issues of gender and sexuality.

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    Chapter 2:

    Diversity and
    Maternal Child
    Nursing
    Communication
    Pattern
    VERBAL
    -language
    -dialect

    NON-VERBAL
    Eye contact
    Body language
    Use of conversational space
    FACTORS AFFECTING SEXUALITY
    • FAMILY
    • CULTURE
    • RELIGIOUS
    BACKGROUND
    • MEDIA
    • PEERS
    SEX
    • female, male, intersex
    • basis of reproductive organs
    and structures (Merriam
    Webster)
    • indicators of biological sex,
    including sex chromosomes,
    gonads, internal reproductive
    organs, and external genitalia.
    (APA 2011)
    • BIOLOGICAL
    SEX ROLE
    • function or role which a male
    or female assumes because
    of the basic physiological or
    anatomical differences
    between the sexes

    • BIOLOGICALLY determined
    GENDER
    • Refers to the social attributes
    and opportunities associated
    with being male and female
    • These attributes, opportunities
    and relationships are socially
    constructed and are learned
    through socialization processes.
    • They are context/time-specific
    and changeable.

    • MASCULINITY or FEMININITY
    GENDER IDENTITY

    • Gender identity refers to a person’ s deeply felt


    internal and individual experience of gender,
    which may or may not correspond with the sex
    assigned at birth.

    • Perception of self
    GENDER IDENTITY

    Cis-Gender
    • denoting or relating to a
    person whose self-
    identity conforms with
    the gender that
    corresponds to their
    biological sex
    GENDER IDENTITY
    GENDER IDENTITY
    • Lesbian
    • woman who
    is sexually
    attracted to
    woman
    GENDER IDENTITY

    • Gay
    • A man
    sexually
    attracted to
    a man
    GENDER IDENTITY

    • Bisexual
    • Someone who
    is sexually
    attracted to
    both men and
    women
    GENDER IDENTITY

    Transgender
    • is an umbrella term to
    describe people whose
    gender identity and
    expression does not
    conform to the norms
    and expectations
    traditionally associated
    with their sex at birth
    GENDER IDENTITY

    Queer
    • Genderqueer,
    Genderfluid or non-
    binary
    • An umbrella term for
    those who wish to not
    categorize sex, sexuality
    or gender
    GENDER IDENTITY
    • INTERSEX
    • A.K.A HERMAPRODITE
    • A person who is born
    with a reproductive or
    sexual anatomy that
    doesn’t fit the typical
    female or male
    definitions.
    GENDER IDENTITY
    • ASEXUAL
    • Someone who
    does not
    experience or
    feel sexual
    attraction
    GENDER ROLE
    • Society's evaluation of behavior as
    MASCULINE or FEMININE
    Gender expression

    • way in which a person acts to communicate


    gender within a given culture; for example, in
    terms of clothing, communication patterns
    and interests
    • A person’s gender expression may or may not
    be consistent with socially prescribed gender
    roles, and may or may not reflect his or her
    gender identity
    Gender Expression

    Cross-dressing (Transvestism)
    • act of wearing items of
    clothing commonly
    associated with the opposite
    sex within a particular society.
    Sexual
    Orientation
    • who you're attracted to and want to have
    relationships with.
    • refers to the sex of those to whom one is
    attracted to:
    – sexually
    – romantically
    Sexual Orientation
    Sexual Orientation
    SEX vs GENDER
    SEX GENDER
    • Same in all societies  May differ from
    • Never change with society to society
    history  Can change with
    • Can be performed by history
    only one of the sexes  Can be performed by
    • Biologically determined both sexes
     Socially, culturally
    determined
    STEREOTYPES
    • DEFINITION: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified
    image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

    • SEX ROLE STEREOTYPES: rigidly held and


    oversimplified beliefs that MALES & FEMALES possess
    distinct (and similar) psychological traits and
    characteristics
    SEX ROLE
    STEREOTYPES
    MASCULINE FEMININE
    • Unemotional  Emotional
    • Very aggressive  Not aggressive
    • Very good at making  Not good at making
    decisions decisions
    • Independent  Dependent
    • Rough  Gentle
    • Blunt  Tactful
    WHO IS A MAN?
    WHO IS A WOMAN?
    SEXUALITY

    • The sum of a person's sexual behaviors and


    tendencies, and the strength of such
    tendencies
    • It begins at birth and last a life time.

    • TOTALITY of BEING
    • TOTALITY
    of BEING
    SEXUALITY
    Sex Gender Gender Sexual
    Identity Expression Orientation
    Male Male Masculine Heterosexual

    Female Female Feminine Gay

    Intersex Male and/or Female Androgynous Lesbian

    Transgender Bisexual

    Questioning Pansexual

    Queer Asexual
    SPECTRUM
    • Heterosexual

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