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Susan Faludi |
Backlash 1980 argues that woman who desire careers were portrayed in certain ways: unhappy, because they don't have a family |
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Sex Vs. Gender |
sex: biological based category, based on genetics and hormones. Gender: what you choose; set of behaviours that are learned and performed. what we do not how we are, culture to culture. |
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Concrete Ceiling |
leads to low numbers of minority woman in management positions; dual burden of racism and sexism in organizations. |
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First wave feminism |
(1848-1920s) environment: urban industrialism, liberal, and socialist politics. Goals: suffrage( the right to vote) ban on alcohol, open up opportunities. *Liberal feminism* Middle class white single woman Woman as humans not as objects |
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Radical Feminism |
Alternative name: dominance feminism use the law to help woman take control of their own bodies. sees oppress male dominance the main problem. Bodily anatomy. |
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Patriarchy |
male dominance but not about men. it can be bad not just for woman but for men . it is a system |
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Discuss Wolf's contributions to feminism. What does she argue? how are myths used against woman? |
Backlash: the media created the beauty myth to make sure woman are insecure. The unrealistic beauty standards that woman are faced with. (Heroin chic) used to distract woman with body image...to keep them in there place. |
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Feminisms |
there is not just one definition of feminism. everyone has there own definition that they acquire to. *promotes the full equality of women and men changing the structures that keep woman in lower power. IS changeable |
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Gender oppression is class oppression |
Marxism- asserts woman's oppression is based on the sexual division of labor |
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Social feminism |
Focuses on class. stresses relations and responsibilities more than individual rights. Looking at the group not the individual. |
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Culture Feminist |
Stresses the positive value of woman's different voices and emphasize the importance of adding this in the legal system. seek to recover and revalue woman's culture, especially maternal values. *world view* |
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Liberal Feminism |
focus: individual rights, and autonomy. Minimize male/female differences. Equality. *Knowing what you want for yourself and expressing that* woman in the workforce. |
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Marxist feminism |
Asserts women’s oppression is based onthe sexual division of labour (produced male labourers/ labour power)
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Dominant Narratives |
A perspective that is heteronormativity. Social norm. |
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Biosocial Explanations |
male dominance is genetically coded. female exclusivity( masculine and feminine). |
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Essentialism |
the notion that gendered behaviour is inherent and natural. Certain ideas about mean and woman. |
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Naomi wolf |
beauty myth. Author |
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"female nature" or female "essence" |
relates by essentialism |
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Abortion |
the right to abortion. the concern in the second wave. it is a procedure that allows women to not have a baby. |
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Germaine Greer |
Author. considered the fourth mother; or sister of second wave feminism. She says that we are finished with feminism |
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Second Wave Feminism |
(1960s-1980s) anti war and civil rights movement. Acc: taking control of your body Birth control, abortions. sexual har. in work place, increased opportunies in law, med, engineering more women entered univer. women studies, gay studies, black studies, in s rape crisis centers, WOMAN SHELTERS |
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Glass ceiling |
Various barriers that prevent qualified women from advancing upward in their organizations into management power positions. Binary |
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Standpoint Perspective |
asserts that your understanding,your viewpoint what you see, what you know is based on your background, your cultural heritage, your history. nurtures a certain perspective |
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Activism |
3rd wave, the policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change. |
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"the beauty myth" |
Unrealistic beauty standards to keep women insecure and in their place. |
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Gay studies |
3rd wave; end of second. the study of issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity. |
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Fluidity |
Gender-fluid, an identity that may change or shift over time between or within the mix of the options available( man woman bi, and straight) |
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Christine de Pisan |
French poet that wrote about the rape of woman. considered a pioneering feminist writer) she wrote to support herself. |
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Structural Binaries |
Simplification, categorization, gives the impression that there are only 2 categories. |
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Situated Knowledge |
Silimar to standpoint perspective |
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Sappho |
A poet from ancient Greece. 570 BCE. Known for her homoerotic poetry. Lesbian sex took lyrical poetry in a new direction. writing about sexuality. |
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Two-Spirited |
Someone who has both male and female qualities. equal energy, understanding of gender. high regard. |
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Rape Crisis Shelters |
A shelters usually for woman to escape from rape. |
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Intersectionality |
social categorization. race, gender, social class. |
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Gender expression |
the external display of one's gender, through a combination of dress, demeanor, social behaviour. gender presentation. |
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Third Wave feminism |
(1980s-present) attacking the 2nd wave ideas looked at race class able-bodiedness and sexuality as configurations of oppression AGAINST essentialism focus on uncovering silences decolonization. youth oriented, divers |
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intersex |
someone whosecombination of chromosomes, gonads, hormones, internal sex organs, and genitalsdiffers from the two expected patterns of male or female.
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What barriers still exist in contemporary society for women? how are women positioned in terms of social, political , and economic status? |
Rape culture. there is still an economic disparity. still violence on women. women are still getting backlashed for work/ staying at work. |
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Private/public Sphere |
Institutions, anything outside the home |
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Heteronormativity |
The assumption, in individuals or in institutions, that everyone is heterosexual, and that heterosexuality is superior to all other sexualities. Leads to invisibility and stigmatizing of other sexualities; a
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Explain the backlash against feminism in the late 1970s and 1980s. what nurture such backlash? |
that if you were a feminist you weren't happy because you weren't starting a family. women were gaining to much power. they were depressed. |
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Gender stereotypes |
Blue and pink, shorts vs skirts.. hetero views of what is what for genders. |
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transgender |
An umbrellaterm covering a range of identities that transgress socially defined gendernorms. Trans with an * is often used to indicate that you are referringto the larger group nature of the term. (2) A person who lives as a member of agender other than that expected based on sex assigned at birth
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Gender norms |
Blue for boy and pink for girls.. someone whosegender presentation, whether by nature or by choice, aligns with society’sgender-based expectations. |
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Gender non- conforming |
Jake ) someonewhose gender presentation, whether by nature or by choice, does not align in apredicted fashion with gender-based expectations. |
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Jessica Yee |
Face of 3rd wave feminism, also an activist |
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LGBTQ/ GSM/ DSG |
umbrella terms for individuals who have a non-normative (or queer) gender or sexuality; understanding of persons outside the gender norm.
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Feminization of Poverty |
The cost of being a woman... women have to spend more money to be a woman. they make less money so there are higher numbers of women in poverty. |
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Misogyny |
hatred or dislike of girls and women.
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Homophobia |
an umbrellaterm for a range of negative attitudes (e.g., fear, anger, intolerance,resentment, erasure, or discomfort) that one may have towards members of LGBTQcommunity.
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