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Feminist Theory
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A generalized, wide-ranging system of ideas about social life and human experience developed from a woman-centered perspective
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Gender
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The socially contructed patterning of masculinity and femininty and of the relations between men and women
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Social Construction
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The processes of collective definition by whihc humans create a social world that is preceived as "real", that is, as exsisting independent of human volition and of the orgiinal acts of definition that procuced it
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Sociology of Gender
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The study of socially constructed male and female roles, relations and identities
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Cultural Feminism:
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A feminist theory of difference that extols the positive aspects of women
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Liberal Feminism:
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A feminist theory of Inequality that argues that owmen may claim equality with men on the basis of an essential ccapacity for reasoned moral agency, that gender inequality is the result of patriacrchal and sexist patterning of the division of labor, and that gender inequality can be produced by transforming the division of labor through the repatterning of key instituitions - Law, Work, Family, Education and Media
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Sexism
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A system of discriminatory attitudes and practices connected by a theme of privileging male experience and devaulting female experience
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