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Radical feminism views patriarchy |
as sexual system of power in which men rule |
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Men want to control |
our sexuality |
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__________ keeps women oppressed |
Sexism |
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Men exercise _________ over women |
Control |
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In order to maintain this control, men can use ___________________ |
Violence |
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How else are women oppressed? |
Domestic sphere, glass ceilings, paid maternity leave, "prince charming" |
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Refusing to reproduce moms are |
Butch culture |
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Socialist Feminism |
Women's oppression stem from their work in the paid economy |
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What are mothers to social feminists? |
All mothers are working mothers |
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Socialist Feminist question |
Why women's contribute does not match up economically to mens |
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Post-Modern feminist say |
that social feminists are too idealistic |
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What is Science to Post-Modern feminists? |
Science is male based and male biased |
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Why is Science male biased? |
Because it studies things in particular interests of white men |
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Black Feminism |
Ideas produced by black women that clarify a standpoint of and/or for black women |
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Critiques of Feminism |
Men and women who think only gender matter are only limiting him/herself |
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But the summary of feminism is...... |
sexism discrimination exist in all social institutions |
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How much of total crime to women commit in America? |
7% |
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Research limitations by the prison? |
The prisons are owned privately, which means they can refuse allowing researchers into prisons |
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Research limitations by the justice system? |
Does not want to grant many research requests |
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Many times women prisons |
run for profit |
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It is estimated that ____ of women are sexually assaulted in intimate partner violence |
90% |
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These victims..... |
never get into the crime data |
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Less than ________ of __________report victimization |
1/2, victims |
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Why would victims not report? |
Little sanctions Difficult to convict Needs of victims are not the same Physically/emotionally traumatized |
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Gender Gap? |
Crimes that are inherently female |
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Out of 48 kills per day, |
46 will be male |
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We pay attention to |
women who deviate/are different from gender norms |
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Casey Anthony (not guilty) was interesting because |
Such a strong deviation from gender roles. Shes attractive, white husband. |
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Criminology is (NeCC) |
the scientific study of the nature, extent, cause and control of criminal behavior. |
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What is deviance |
It is behavior that departs from social norms |
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Not all crimes are _______________ |
deviant |
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And not all deviant acts are_______________ |
criminal |
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Criminologists study both crime and deviance to understand the _____________________________ |
nature and purpose of the law |
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Utilitarianism means what |
greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people |
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Choice is controlled by |
fear of punishment |
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People have the choice |
to commit crimes or not |
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Punishment is meant |
to control behavior |
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Punishment needs to be |
swift certain and severe |
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Thomas v Alabama |
Blacks have rights to juries of other black members |
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Equal Pay Act |
prohibits discrimination in compensation of the basis of gender |
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What are the limitations of the Equal Pay Act? |
no salary disclosure, taboo to talk about wages, and no recourse |
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When was Title VII passed? |
In 1964 |
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What did Title VII state? |
It prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex re "compensation, terms conditions or privileges of employment" |
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What was Title 7? |
extremely helpful |
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Why was Title 7 extremely helpful? |
It protected women by ensuring that you have to hire men and women equally |
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Despite Title 7 being extremely successful what was its limitation |
It didn't change the duties women were hired to perform |
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What constitutes as workplace discrimination? |
Harassment- Hostile work environment |
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What are examples of harassment? |
quid-pro-quo (this for that) |
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Title 7 said that you couldn't just hire women but |
had to make a work place a place so they could thrive |
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if you file a grievance |
you can't be fired for filing a claim |
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What was Title IX- education act |
Equal number of sports opportunity and eradicate discrimination of gender in the educational system |
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Affect from Title IX- |
Athletics but not inter-gender sports |
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What passed in 1978? |
Pregnancy Discrimination Act |
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What did the PDA say? |
They could not refuse to hire you because you were in child-bearing years. They could not fire you for becoming pregnant. They had to give you 6 weeks off unpaid leave. |
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Where is the only country that doesn't require maternity leave? |
The United States |
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Who decides if women get maternity leave? |
The employers |
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So what is the limitations of the PDA |
it just says you can't be fired |
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Same-sex couple and heterosexuals who can't get pregnant are |
not entitled to any leave at all (upon adoption) |
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What barriers have kept women from working in the legal profession? |
Social barriers |
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Who was Margaret Brent |
Referred to as "Gentleman Margaret" first woman to practice law in the US. based in Maryland and lost her womanhood |
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Who was Ada Kepley? |
First woman to enter a US law school |
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Which US law school did Kepley enter? |
NorthWestern |
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When did Kepley enter Northwestern/ |
1870 |
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Why were women not allowed to enter the law school? |
Attractiveness, couldn't carry the caseload, emotionally unstable, they couldn't be discreet (gossip), beholden to marriage and motherhood |
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Who was Mary Ann Shad Cary |
First black woman to enroll in law school |
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Bradwell v Illinois |
Women goes to law school graduates, marries judge, passed bar, goes to get license and is refused |
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Why did Illinois say Bradwell couldn't get her license? |
because her first job was to a wife and mother to her children and family |
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Annabelle Mansfield had a _________ |
brother who was a lawyer |
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When did Annabelle Mansfield pass the bar? |
In 1869 |
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Where did she pass and who gave Annabelle Mansfield her license? |
Iowa |
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What was the backdrop of the suffragette movement? |
These were women who had brothers, husbands, cousins that were practicing in law. |
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Until 1971 women taking the BAr |
had to take it in separate rooms |
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So what are the stereotypes of men |
They are creatures of lust |
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What characteristics are not suited for the practice of law? |
Feminine ones |
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When could women join the ABA |
1918 |
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Some women to join the ABA had to |
get a letter from their husband |
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"Land, like women.... |
was meant to be possessed." |
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Female professors are |
extremely underrepresented |
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Female professors are extremely underrepresented |
especially in law schools |
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What is the Mommy Track? |
not on the partner track (10 year track) |
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Law firms and law schools |
don't want to hire women of child bearing age |
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few firms accept |
work from home and give little opportunity for flexibility |
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What do women face in the workforce then? |
The glass ceiling |
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How much do women charge as lawyers? |
They wont' bill accurately for their work and will bill less. |
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More women are _______ than actual lawyers |
Paralegals |
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Women are most likely to allow their law license |
to expire after receiving them |
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Men earn |
significantly higher salaries |
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There are also _______ in the courtroom that face women |
biases |
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Women are seen as |
less effective, too emotional, gullible |
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There is a personality |
tight rope |
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Women who are aggressive are deemed as |
emotional, erratics, angry, bitchy and or"on the rag" |
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Bias studies |
Women defendants and litigants face an uphill battle |
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What manifests in the courtooms |
Biases in the perceptions and practices of courtroom actors |
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Which court cases are victims intensely scrutinized? |
domestic violence, sexual assault, divorce, |
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Our law is |
androcentric |
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What does androcentric law mean? |
female victims of male crimes will be viewed through masculine lenses |
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Who was Sandra Day O Connor? |
First woman appointed to the Supreme Court |
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Obama appointed how many women? |
Two |
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How many women in total are on the federal US Supreme Court |
3 |
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What has that made the US Supreme Court? |
liberal and left leaning |
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Drugs are intertwined with what two crimes? |
Property crimes and sex works |
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What does that make these crimes that women commit? |
Survival crimes |
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What happened before Nixon declared the war on drugs? |
Drugs were given to women a lot by their doctors, take the edge of, deal with your unhappiness as being a house wife |
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When did Nixon declare the WOD |
1970s |
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What did the WOD do? |
Raised a particular stigma on mothers who used drug |
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What was going on in the 70s and 80s? |
Drug use was part of counter-culture |
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After Nixon declared his war on drugs |
there were exponential increases in prison sentencing. |
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When did Obama finally changed the guidelines for crack? |
2011 . from 1g to 5g |
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What do women who are addicts have in common? |
Most have had early exposure to the drug Many had social marginalization and economic pressures |
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Why could drug behavior become normalized? |
The lack of pro-social models |
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_____________ of these women have reoccuring _______________________ disorders |
72%, mental health |
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Out of all the women who are incarcerated in federal prisons, drug offenders make up |
72% |
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Out of this 72% how many were convicted for use and not sale? |
85% |
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Why do women use drugs? |
Self medication, alleviates symptoms of mental disease, social marginalization, economic pressures, homelessness, domestic violence |
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Most women who use drugs have |
co-occuring mental health issues which are more severe for women than men |
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A lot of times they want to treat symptoms of addiction but not the underlying mental problem |
but that never works, you have to treat both things at once. |
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How many people are drug addicts? |
5% of 7 billion. |
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What do women face after incarceration |
difficulty accessing employment |
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Drugs are the most common factor in ______ |
female property offending |
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Pink Collar Crime is |
prostitution |
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How many hos have had previous childhood victimization |
87% |
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Why do hos not rely on police? |
because the police are threats and could lead to further victimization |
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Network of women |
informal support, carry knives, informal support networks |
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Neonaticide |
killing of a child within the first 24 hours of birth |
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Who rarely commits neonaticide? |
fathers |
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What is atypical of neonaticide? |
It occurs with some other mental illness |
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What is infanticide? |
killing of a child within the first year |
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Who rarely commits infanticide? |
fathers |
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What is fillicide? |
Kililng of ones own child after a year but before 18 |
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Who commits fillicide? |
Could be either parents |
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Women are much more likely to kill _____ |
male victims |
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Who was Andrea Yates? |
she drowned her 5 children |
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What did Yates have? |
a history of mental health issues |
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What was yates found? |
not guilty by measure on insanity |
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What are the 2 altruistic themes of infanticide |
Pressures to be a good mother and pressures of being the sole caretaker (they would be better somewhere else) |
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If women are under the age of 25 and kill their baby? |
They are most likely a psychotic offender |
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What does it mean to be psychotic offender? |
They disassociate the killing of an unwanted infant |
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There are three options of how to plead in these cases, what are they? |
insanity (factual guilt, without the ability to inform intent) |
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Gender is not something |
one has/is but is something that one does |
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By assigning people to one or two categories (male/female) |
society has created a dichotomy and strong difference between them |
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Genders strongest influence |
is at the interactional level |
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What is feminism? |
recognition that gender inequalities exist in society and moves to end domination and oppression in all forms |
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Feminism is |
a recognition and critique of male supremacy combined with efforts to change it |
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Feminists fight for |
the equality of women and argue that women should share equally in society's opportunities and scare resources |
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What happened in 1848? |
Seneca Falls (birthplace of Feminism/ |
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How many people attended Seneca Falls |
300 people |
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How many years did the battle take to secure the first vote? |
72 years |
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When did the first vote happen? |
1920 |
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Marianna Weber believe that |
women's movement should focus on equality of women. and women should be financially independent |
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What was erotic movement about? |
sexual autonomy, led to what is known as the erotic movement |
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Second-wave Feminism of the 1960s |
free love helped women escape the sexual double standard |
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Divorce become _______ |
easier to obtain in the 1960s |
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Examining the race-class-gender linkage originated? |
with african american feminists in the 1960s |
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what is the feminization of poverty? |
women are more likely then men to be poor |
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Which women are likely to be poor? |
single women, women of color/elderly women living alone |
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Mainstream white feminists |
often negligent of the reality of women of color |
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Liberal Feminism |
Is the mainstream perspective |
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Liberal feminism says |
all people are created equal and should not be denied equal opportunity based on gender |
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Liberal Feminism NGO? |
NOW |
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Liberal feminists think that obstacles to equality |
lie in traditional laws and behaviors |
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liberal feminist think that |
the primary obstacle is sexism |
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Why was liberal feminism criticized? |
for failing to explain institutionalized social classes and racial oppression |
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Radical feminism is |
the claim that all men use sexism to keep women oppressed. male power and privilege is the basic control of social relations |
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Radical feminists say what about sexuality and existing structures? |
heterosexuality is a tool of male dominance and promote butch culture to escape the cage of femininity. God is male |
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Post-Modern feminism |
only rational, abstract thought and scientific thought can lead to valid knowledge
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Gender vertigo |
Gender vertigo refers to the profund effect the elimination of gender would have on every persons sense of identity |
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Feminism refers to |
a social movement to empower women |
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Feminists believe that women |
should enjoy the same rights in society as men and that should share equally in society's opportunities |
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First wave feminism focused on the |
suffrage |
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2nd wave feminism focused on |
sexuality, inequalities, reproductive rights, victimization |
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What is the UCR |
Uniform Crime Report |
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What is the Uniform Crime Report |
one of the largest datasets on crime |
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How many police agencies does the UCR collect from? |
over 17,000 |
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Who publishes the UCR? |
The FBI |
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The UCR is viewed.... |
as the most accurate assessment of crime |
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What are disadvantages to using the UCR |
it only includes crimes report to the police and only includes data on certain types of crimes |
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What is the NCVS? |
National Crime Victimization Survery |
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What does the NCVS include? |
Interviews of victims age 12 or older regarding their victimizations |
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What is the dark figure of crime |
the amount of unreported or undiscovered crime |
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Additional sources of data |
Self-report studies, National Violence Against Women Survey, national intimate partner and seuaxl violence survey |
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The __________ has had a significant effect on the experience of women _________________ |
feminist movement criminal justice system |
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gender while sex |
is social is biological |