"The interdisciplinary academic field [of gender studies] is devoted to analyzing gender identity and gendered representation."
The study of gender and sexuality as social and cultural constructs and their significance in human behavior and relationships.
Gender: The characteristics that a society or culture determines to be masculine or feminine.
Sex: The biological characteristics that determine whether a person is male or female.
Sexual orientation: The emotional, romantic or sexual attraction a person experiences towards another person.
Transgender: A person whose gender identity does not align with the sex they were assigned at birth.
Cisgender: A person whose gender identity aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth.
Non-binary: A person whose gender identity is not exclusively masculine or feminine.
Gender expression: The way in which an individual expresses their gender identity through behavior, clothing, and societal norms.
Queer: An umbrella term for those who identify outside of heterosexuality or gender binary.
Intersex: A person who is born with physical sex characteristics that do not fit typical female/male classifications.
Asexual: A person who does not experience sexual attraction towards others.
Ally: A person who supports and advocates for marginalized individuals in the LGBTQ+ community.
Heteronormativity: The assumption that heterosexuality is the norm and social structures are built around this assumption.
Homophobia: Negative attitudes towards homosexuality based on fear or ignorance.
Biphobia: Negative attitudes towards bisexuality or bisexual individuals based on fear or ignorance.
Transphobia: A dislike and fear of individuals who identify as trans, based on fear or ignorance.
Coming out: The process of revealing one's sexual orientation or gender identity to others.
"Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics."
"The field now overlaps with queer studies and men's studies."
"Its rise to prominence, especially in Western universities after 1990..."
"Disciplines that frequently contribute to gender studies include the fields of literature, linguistics, human geography, history, political science, archaeology, economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, cinema, musicology, media studies, human development, law, public health, and medicine."
"Gender studies also analyzes how race, ethnicity, location, social class, nationality, and disability intersect with the categories of gender and sexuality."
"In gender studies, the term 'gender' is often used to refer to the social and cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity, rather than biological aspects of the male or female sex."
"However, this view is not held by all gender scholars."
"Gender is pertinent to many disciplines, such as literary theory, drama studies, film theory, performance theory, contemporary art history, anthropology, sociology, sociolinguistics, and psychology."
"...these disciplines sometimes differ in their approaches to how and why gender is studied."
"In politics, gender can be viewed as a foundational discourse that political actors employ in order to position themselves on a variety of issues."
"Gender studies is also a discipline in itself, incorporating methods and approaches from a wide range of disciplines."
"Feminist theory of psychoanalysis, articulated mainly by Julia Kristeva and Bracha L. Ettinger..."
"...informed both by Freud, Lacan and the object relations theory..."
"Its rise to prominence, especially in Western universities after 1990, coincided with the rise of deconstruction."
"Many fields came to regard 'gender' as a practice, sometimes referred to as something that is performative."
"Julia Kristeva and Bracha L. Ettinger are influential figures in gender studies."
"The field now overlaps with queer studies..."
"Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analyzing gender identity and gendered representation."
"Gender studies also analyzes how race, ethnicity, location, social class, nationality, and disability intersect with the categories of gender and sexuality."