Glossary of Gender Terms

A

• Abuse
• Academic Feminism
• Adultism
• Ageism
• Agender

B

• Bagspreading
• Benevolent Sexism
• Biodeterminism / Biological Determinism
• Black Feminism
• Bloomerism

C

• Chick Lit
• Cognates / Cognatic Relatives
• Coming out
• Conventional Standards of Beauty
• Courtly Love

D

• Difference Feminism
• Divorce

E

• Ecofeminism
• Effeminophobia
• Epikleros
• Equality Feminism
• Essentialism

F

• Face-ism
• Family
• Family Myth
• Femicide
• Femininity

G

• Gender
• Gender Analysis
• Gender Asymmetry
• Gender Asymmetry in Language
• Gender Competence

H

• Harassment
• Harem
• Hate Speech
• Hermaphrodite
• Hetaerism

I

• Incest
• Intersectional Feminism
• Intersectionality
• Intersex

J

K

L

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

M

• Maidenhood
• Male Gaze
• Manhood
• Mansitting
• Mansplaining

N

• Neofeminism
• Neosexism
• Neurosexism

O

• Oedipal Stage
• Outing

P

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

Q

• Questioning

R

• Reverse Discrimination

S

• Serial monogamy
• Sex
• Sex Attribution / Sex Categorization
• Sex Discrimination
• Sex-Liberal Feminism

T

• TERF
• Theological Feminism
• Third-Wave Feminism
• Toxic Masculinity
• Transfeminism

U

• Unisex

V

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

W

• Welfare-State Feminism
• Womanhood
• Womanist
• Womanliness
• Women’s Studies

X

Y

• Yin and Yang

Z

Alphabetical Index

• A (15)
• B (7)
• C (5)
• D (2)
• E (6)
• F (14)
• G (45)
• H (10)
• I (4)
• L (5)
• M (19)
• N (3)
• O (2)
• P (17)
• Q (1)
• R (1)
• S (15)
• T (9)
• U (1)
• Uncategorized (140)
• V (4)
• W (5)
• Y (1)

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