Women's Culture And Society

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gender

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-not sex
-female/male characteristics
-performance

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essentialism

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is to render an essence in a person meaning there is something essential about a person (stereotype)

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epistemology

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study of knowledge (how you know what you know)

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social construction

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constructed by society not biological

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hegemony

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because society said so (common ideas)

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pathologization

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diagnosing someone or a condition as medically abnormal and to be corrected

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paradigm shift

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shift in common sense belief, view or knowledge
ex. blue and pink shift

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Womens studies have loads of vocab, why is that they makeup this language?

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Power, creation so that the language becomes our social hegemony
-also because by messing with the system and creating this language, granted power and it becomes societal norm (hegemony)

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give one example of hegemony

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thin is beautiful in america

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normative

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assuming a norm, the standard of correctness of behavior

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heteronormative

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gender

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homonormative

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homosexual people want to have relationships as heterosexuals

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discourse

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discussion/authoritative statement

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biopolitics

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control of a population through their body ex. prison hospital

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Faucult

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came up with biopolitics, hegemony etc

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subjectivitiy

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quality of being subjected to a certain identity/condition/treatment/ experiences from that identity
ex. women's subjectivity-walking down street getting whistled at

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subversive

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comes from subvert-to overthrow order of gender

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masculinity

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negation of femininity

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intersectionality

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different facets of subjectivities ex. race, class, gender
ex. homosexual African American

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theoretical debunking

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to expose the falseness or exaggerated claims of something in this case theory

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identity politics

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discourses and theories that politicize certain identity groups such as race, class ,religion, sexuality, gender

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why is the intersex case important to womens studies?

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-minoritization
-challenges essentialism
-nature vs. culture

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self-reflexivity

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self consciously observing one's epistemology
-examining how you arrived to your knowledge position

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how is personal is political relavent

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for some groups of people who don't have political freedom or cultural citizenship, personal issues become political issues. any political issue stems from personal because it affects everyone in society

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methodology

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an apporach to a research project- how a method is used

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deviancy

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against social norms and somewhat unethical or criminal

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orientalism

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interpretation and expression/approach of the idea of the orient by the west

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what does it mean that race is everything and nothing?

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nothing because it is an illusion and not physically tangible while everything because reality and can't go through life without being subjected

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construction of a subject

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-born into a specific condition and take on identity not only placed on earth
-subjectivity of social being

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whiteness

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standard seen as transparent

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othering

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defining others and self in relation to the others

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edward said

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wrote book orientalism
"creation of the orient was building the west"

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orientalism concerned with:

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-conflation of cultures
mixing up together
-feminizes/sexualizes
mystifies (illusion)

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postcolonial

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discourse that consist of reactions to analysis of the cultural legacy of colonialism
-300
-kilpatrick

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why do people claim it is neocolonialism rather than post colonialism

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Post-colonialism theories in philosophy, film, political science, and post-colonial literature deal with the cultural legacy of colonial rule; that is, the cultural identity of the colonised peoples, in which neo-colonialism is the background for the contemporary dilemmas of developing a national identity after colonial rule.

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dehumanization

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devaluing a subject, making a group of people less human through its representations

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imperialism

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extending ones power over another nation or region and advocacy of such actions

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three ways imperialism occurs

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military, economic, cultural

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Who are the western feminists?

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anyone who applies to western hegemony and idea of the other
-idea that those women who work talking about the oppressed

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free trade

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type of trade policy that allows traders to act and transact w/o coercive interference from gov't
-no legal protection for laborers
-forced industrialization

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NAFTA

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north american free trade agreement

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feminization of labor

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more women are engaging in non tradtional wage labor
-problem-families uprooted from tradtion econ system, limited choices of econ survival

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what is sasson's argument?

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perhaps we need new ways to think about immigration. must focus on the economy issues not only through police force and borders. Invest more into how we can improve their economic status into thinking US isn't as promising instead of just securing borders

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three characteristics of orientalism?

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feminization, sexualization, mystification

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what is the brain gain?

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Human capital flight, more commonly referred to as "brain drain", is the large-scale emigration of individuals with technical skills or knowledge; it is normally due to conflict, lack of opportunity, political instability, or health risks. ...

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what is OFW

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Overseas Filipino workers

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care-deficit

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lacking parental care for children because of immigration working

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ethnography

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ethno=foreign graphy=writing
writing about people in foreign country

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postcolonial ethnography

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LOOK UP

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IMF

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international monetary fund

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globalization

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caused by industrialization

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In "global women", connect phrase exotic orient

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idea that asian women are seen as exotic so it makes them look more appealing to western men