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19 Cards in this Set
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Define gender inequality
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It is the disadvantage of females relative to males.
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How do materialist explanations view the oppression of women?
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As social, historical, and alterable phenomenons.
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What is the idea that gender inquality is embedded in family, culture, economics, politics, and socials structures sometimes referred to?
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Patriarchy
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Like materialist explanations, blank and blank emphasize how gendered power relations are socially constructed.
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Social Constructivist and sociocultural explanations
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What is the private sphere?
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The domestic domain of the home where women's work became concentrated
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What is the public sphere?
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Outside the home where men performed labor due to the fact they weren't constrained by childcare
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Define gender stereotypes
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Beliefs about the qualities of each gender
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Define gender socialization
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The process by which societal beliefs and expectations about gender are instilled in us.
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The theory that postulates a reciprocal relationship between gender stereotypes and gender roles and suggests gender is "dynamic."
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Social roles theory
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What is empowerment?
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The ability to advocate for ones rights and have decision-making power in public and private lives.
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What emphasizes helping people to understand, accept, and value the cultural differences between groups, with the ultimate goal of reaping the benefits of diversity?
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Multiculturalism or interculturalism
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Which feminisms cut across cultures and unite women's struggles from many parts of the world?
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Transnational feminisms
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Which feminist theologies deconstruct religion through the additional lenses of race, class, heterosexism, and colonialism and reconstruct religion for empowerment?
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Intersectionality
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Contextualize
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To fully understand women's issues, you have to consider the contexts in which they are situated- cultural, social, political, historical, and economic
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What is meant by ethnocentricism?
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When someone is quick to think their culture's way is the right and only way, and they are quick to judge and reject the way other cultures do things.
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The idea that right and wrong are culturally determined
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Cultural relativism
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The idea that regardless of culture and gender, people are entitled to certain basic rights and governments must do what they can to ensure these rights are protected.
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Women's rights as human rights Perspective
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What is one of the most important human rights documents pertaining to women?
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The UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
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What is the product of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995?
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The Beijing Platform for Action
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