Glossary of Gender Terms

A

• Abuse
• Academic Feminism
• Adultism
• Affirmative Action
• Ageism

B

• Bagspreading
• Benevolent Sexism
• Bigender
• Biodeterminism / Biological Determinism
• Biological Sex

C

• Chick Lit
• Cisgender / Cisgender Identity
• Cisgender Privilege
• Cissexuality
• Cognates / Cognatic Relatives

D

• Deconstruction
• Deconstruction of Sex and Gender
• Difference Feminism
• Divorce
• Dramaturgical Interactionism

E

• Ecofeminism
• Effeminophobia
• Emancipation
• Endogamy
• Epikleros

F

• Face-ism
• Family
• Family Adaptation
• Family Myth
• Femicide

G

• Gender
• Gender Analysis
• Gender Approach
• Gender Asymmetry
• Gender Asymmetry in Language

H

• Harassment
• Harem
• Hate Speech
• Hermaphrodite
• Hetaerism

I

• Identity
• Incest
• Intersectional Feminism
• Intersectionality
• Intersex

J

K

L

• LGBTQIA+ Community
• Liberal Feminism
• Linguistic Androcentrism
• Lookism
• Lookphobia

M

• Maidenhood
• Male Gaze
• Manhood
• Mansitting
• Mansplaining

N

• National Gender Equality Machiner
• National Gender Equality Policy
• Neofeminism
• Neosexism
• Neurosexism

O

• Oedipal Stage
• Oedipus Complex
• Open Relationship
• Outing

P

• Parity Democracy
• Patriarchal / Patriarchy-Based
• Patriarchal Consciousness
• Patriarchy
• Patrifocality

Q

• Queer
• Queer Studies
• Questioning

R

• Reverse Discrimination

S

• Serial monogamy
• Sex
• Sex Attribution / Sex Categorization
• Sex Discrimination
• Sex Identity

T

• TERF
• Theological Feminism
• Theory of the Social Construction of Gender
• Third-Wave Feminism
• Toxic Masculinity

U

• Unification of the Sexes
• Unisex

V

• Vertical Gender Segregation of Labour
• Vestal Virgin
• Vésuviennes
• Vira

W

• The Weaker Sex
• Welfare-State Feminism
• Womanhood
• Womanist
• Womanist Theology

X

Y

• Yin and Yang

Z

Alphabetical Index

• A (22)
• B (10)
• C (13)
• D (5)
• E (8)
• F (17)
• G (91)
• H (15)
• I (5)
• L (5)
• M (24)
• N (7)
• O (4)
• P (23)
• Q (3)
• R (1)
• S (30)
• T (12)
• U (2)
• Uncategorized (17)
• V (4)
• W (8)
• Y (1)

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