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Sex role

LC control no.sh 85120663
LC classificationGN479.65 GN479.7 Anthropology
HQ1075 HQ1075.5 Sociology
Topical headingSex role
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Variant(s)Gender role
Gender roles
Gendered role
Gendered roles
Role, Gender
Role, Gendered
Role, Sex
Roles, Gender
Roles, Gendered
Roles, Sex
Sex roles
See alsoSex (Psychology)
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Sex differences (Psychology)
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Social role
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Gender expression
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Sexism
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Scope noteHere are entered works on the role or behavior learned by a person as appropriate to masculinity or femininity as determined by prevailing cultural norms. Works on a person's internal sense of being male, female, some combination of male and female, or neither male nor female, are entered under Gender identity.
Subject example tracingNote under Gender identity
Found in2009277330: Dictionary of sociology, 2009, viewed online February 25, 2019 sex roles (Sex roles prescribe the different ways men and women are supposed to act and the different tasks they are expected to undertake) identity ([Identity] is used widely and loosely in reference to one's sense of self, and one's feelings and ideas about oneself, as for example in the terms 'gender identity' or 'class identity')
APA dictionary of psychology, 2006 sex role (the behavior and attitudinal patterns characteristically associated with masculinity or femininity as defined in a given society) gender identity (a recognition that one is male or female and the internalization of this knowledge into one's self-concept)
Intersectional feminist readings of comics : interpreting gender in graphic narratives, 2022: p. 6 (gendered roles) p. 94 (gender roles)
Current conceptions of sex roles and sex typing, 1987.
The psychology of sex roles, ©1987.
Blume, Amelia. Gendered role performances in patriarchal NRMs, 2014.
Lamberg, Marko. Authority through gendered role models, 2010.