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13 Cards in this Set
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What does Bell Hooks (1989) talk about?
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Finding a voice becomes both a way to engage in active self-transformation and a rite of passage where one moves from being object to being subject.
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What were three important influences in the social context of the 1960s
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1. The Sexual Revolution
2. Civil Rights Movement 3. Vietnam War |
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What is the sexual revolution associated with in regards to feminism?
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The Birth Control Pill
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What are the 4 different types of feminisms?
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1. Radical
2. Marxist 3. Liberal 4. Dual-Systems Theory |
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According to Radical Feminists, what is women's oppression the result of?
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System of Patriarchy, a system of domination in which men as a group have power over women as a group.
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According to Marxist Feminists, what is women's oppression the result of?
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Capitalism, the domination of women by men is seen as a consequence of capital’s domination over labor.
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According to Liberal Feminists, what is women's oppression the result of?
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Male prejudice against women, embodied in law or expressed in the exclusion of women from particular areas of life.
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According to Dual Systems Theory, what is women's oppression the result of?
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The coming together of Marxist and radical feminist analysis in the belief that women’s oppression is the result of a complex articulation of both patriarchy and capitalism.
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What are two major assumptions about women and popular culture that contemporary feminists have shared according to Lana Rakow (2009)?
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1. The first is that women have a particular relationship to popular culture that is different from men’s
2. The second is that understanding how popular culture functions both for women and a patriarchal culture is important if women are to gain control over their own identities and change both social mythologies and social relations.” (p.138) |
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What is Quer Theory?
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An interdisciplinary movement coming out of the 1990s
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What does Judith Butler Argue?
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She argues against the binary gender system, claims that biology is itself always already culturally gendered as ‘male’ and ‘female’.
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What is one of the radical arguments of Judith Butler?
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One can if one chooses, become neither female nor male, woman nor man. Because gender is not the expression of biological sex, it is performatively constructed in culture.
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What are the two types of language from Austin’s (1962) theory of perfomative language?
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Constative (e.g. the sky is blue), and performative (which brings something into being; marriage)
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