| Prejudice | | the ways we present ourselves to the world |
| Objectification | | either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and many other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions |
| Racism | | people born with both a testis and ovary |
| meritocracy | | a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. |
| transgender | | interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning women, gender, and feminism |
| transsexual | | the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. |
| FTM | | the assumption that a person’s biology or genetic makeup, rather than culture or society, determines that person’s destiny |
| MTF | | invisible package of unearned assets that white people can count on cashing in every day |
| Hermaphrodite | | focuses on the hypothesis of patriarchy as a system of power that organizes society into a complex of relationships based on the assertion that male supremacy oppresses women. |
| androgyny | | systems where males dominate because power and authority are in the hands of adult men |
| privilege | | the assumption of heterosexuality as the norm or normative behavior in any given setting |
| white privilege | | given to us at birth and determined by our physical body type to be male or female |
| gender | | 20th century period of social activism from the 1960s through the 1980s that addressed formal and informal inequalities associated with the workplace, family, sexuality, and reproductive freedom |
| sex | | seeing the body as an object and separate from its context |
| feminism | | the notion that everyone should be heterosexual and have relationships with opposite sex |
| woman's studies | | any of a range of psychological disorders characterized by abnormal or disturbed eating habits |
| patriarchy | | out of the ordinary or unusual |
| suffrage | | prejudice or discrimination on the basis of a person's age. |
| first wave of feminism | | advantages people have by virtue of their status or position in society |
| second wave of feminism | | the transition from female to male |
| radical feminism | | to prejudge and making premature judgments without adequate information or with inaccurate information |
| liberal/reform feminism | | lack of gendered differentiation or a balance mixture of recognizable feminine and masculine traits |
| Homophobia | | a person’s attraction to, or preference for, people of a certain gender. It is an individual’s romantic and/or sexual behavior towards other people |
| Heterosexism | | the transition from male to female |
| misogyny | | mid 19th century woman’s rights suffrage activities that sought to overturn legal obstacles to women’s participation in society |
| Queer | | believe in the viability in the present system and work within this context for change in such public areas as education and employment. Attempt to remove obstacles to women’s full participation in public life. |
| sexism | | how one feels internally about one’s own gender |
| Ageism | | the societal fear or hatred of lesbians and gay men |
| social construction | | claim a gender identity or expression different from the one assigned at their birth by their family and community |
| stereotype/stereotyping | | a person's sexual identity in relation to the gender to which they are attracted; the fact of being heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. |
| norm | | discrimination or prejudice against homosexuals on the assumption that heterosexuality is the normal sexual orientation. |
| discrimination | | the right of women to vote |
| gender identity | | a rule or principle that is unfairly applied in different ways to different people or groups. |
| gender ranking | | binge eating with self-induced vomiting and/or laxative use |
| gender assignment | | government or the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their ability. |
| gender expression | | prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex. |
| sexual script | | how society groups people and how it privilges certain groups over others |
| sexual identity | | cultural expectations |
| sexual orientation | | transgendered people who believe they are born with the bodies of the wrong sex and who desire chemical or surgical altering in the form of hormone therapies or sex reassignment surgeries |
| compulsory heterosexuality | | the hatred of, or contempt for, women |
| heteronormativity | | guidelines for how we are supposed to feel and act as sexual persons |
| double standard | | the valuing of one gender over another |
| biological determinism | | the way society organizes understandings of sexual differences (feminine/masculine) |
| eating disorders | | the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, esp. on the grounds of race, age, or sex. |
| anorexia nervosa | | belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes |
| bulimia nervosa | | self-starvation |
