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30 Cards in this Set
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Masculinity Studies
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the study of the masculine gender and sex from a social, political, and historical point of view. It is the study of the social construction of what it means to be a man.
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Social Construct
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society constructs identities like race, class and gender. The performance of each reinforces the idea that they are not natural but nurtured, or constructed
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White Privilege
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People with white skin have privileges over people with non-white skin in the social, economic, political arenas.
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Vernacular
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The language and culture of a people.
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Performance of Identity
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how people perform identity based on a social construct that they want to perform.
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Public Sphere
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outside the home, traditionally where men work.
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Private Sphere
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inside the home, traditionally where women worked.
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Gender Continuum
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Gender is fluid and not fixed. It is on a continuum and it is performed. Each day, we perform different stations on the continuum.
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Fluid
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flowing and changing
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Static
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unchanging
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Judith Butler
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Judith Butler is an American continental philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics and the fields of feminist, queer and literary theory. Some of her work "Gender Trouble" "Undoing Gender" and " Bodies that Matter"
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Adrienne Rich
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was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse." Wrote “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.”
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Heterosexuality
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People who identify as those who are attracted to the opposite sex
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Terra Incognita
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a place that is unknown or had not been discovered yet.
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Liminal Space
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a space between and betwixt. A physical psychological space that a person inhabits. In between two world's. The quality of ambiguity.
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Cis Gender
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When your sex and gender are the same
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Transgender
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When biological sex and mental gender are different.
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Marginalized
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to place a person, group or concept in a position of marginal importance or power
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Entitlement
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Feeling owed.
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Herculine Barbin
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was a French intersex person who was treated as a female at birth but was later redesignated a male after a physical examination. The sex reassignment left Barbin depressed and isolated.
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LGBTQI
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The LGBTQI community includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/ questioning, and intersex individuals.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth-century English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Notably, she wrote “A Vindication of the Rights of Women,” a pro-suffrage piece, which had classist arguments. She was also Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin’s mother. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin later married poet Percy Shelly and then she became Mary Shelly.
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Intelligentsia
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a group of intelligent and well-educated people who guide or try to guide the political, artistic, or social development of their society.
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Frederick Douglas
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Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing.
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Intersectionality
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how one is composed of race, class, gender, ability, sexuality, nation, age. How the world sees you and how you see the world. But this is also an interlocking system of privilege and oppression.
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Mrgaret Sanger
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was an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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First Wave Feminism
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1700s-1900s. Mary Wollstonecraft, in the UK, wrote “A Vindication of the Rights of Women,” arguing for women’s right to vote. In the U.S., in the mid-to-late 1800s, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others took up the call for women’s right to vote and became suffragettes. They organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. Frederick Douglass was in attendance.
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Frederick Douglass
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Born into slavery, he became a key figure in the abolition movement to end slavery. He was also a feminist, supporting women’s right to vote.
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Second Wave Feminism
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1960s-80s. Focused on equal pay, women’s right to work outside of the home. Title XI. Reproductive rights. Gay rights. Equal rights. Rape crisis shelters
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Stonewall riots
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In June of 1969, gay and lesbian citizens rioted in protest of police brutality and harassment of their bar, the Stonewall Inn. It was the dawn of the LGBTQ movement.
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