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First wave of feminism
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suffrage, Seneca Falls, began in 1800's
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Second wave of feminism
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late 1960's, reproductive rights, labor rights, violence, etc.
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third wave of feminism
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now! reproductive rights, global women's rights
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What do liberal and cultural feminism have in common?
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Women have value, social change needed, women's concerns are worthy of research and analysis
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Conservatism
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Keep gender roles the same, male centered society
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Different forms of backlash
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Negative stereotypes, insisting on differences, catfight among women
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Steps in scientific inquiry
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question formulation, designing research, analyzing data, interpreting and publishing results
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Looks-ism
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favoring people who are perceived as physically attractive
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stereotypes
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culturally determined pictures of people
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Instrumental traits
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active, independent, aggressive, direct, dominant, competent (can change the world)
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Affective traits
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warm, expressive, sensitive (cares more for people than things)
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ambivalent sexism
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sexist against women in power
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hostile sexism
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anger towards women
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benevolent sexism
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seeing women as weak but nice
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How does the media impact gender roles?
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Gender roles become more rigid
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Sexist language
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trivializes women eg: "suffragette"
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selective attention and encoding
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people pay attention to race and sex - they can distinguish between but not within
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selective recall
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remembering only the things that reinforce stereotypes about someone
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self-presentation
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behaving to confirm what other people expect
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self-fulfilling prophecy
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acting a certain way because you believe people think a certain thing about you; perpetuates stereotypes
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behavioral confirmation
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acting to cause others to behave as you expect
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selective causal attributions
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shortcuts that assume why people act certain ways "she acts like that because she's a woman"
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status
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a person's ability to influence others
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helping
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Because people think women are weak, they help them more. This leads women to think they are weak, and become more dependent.
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tokenism/solo status
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the only member of a social category
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similarities tradition
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women and men are alike, equality
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differences tradition
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men and women are fundamentally different, women's traits undervalued in society
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What does Jean Baker Miller say?
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Women develop personality traits to help them deal with subordinate status
once a group is inferior, the dominant group justifies it |
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What are some problems with Carol Gilligan's moral theory?
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Dillemmas were too different, no scoring standard, ignored diversity
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What were problems with Kohlberg's moral theory?
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Dilemmas specific to men
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Dimorphic
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having two forms
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androgens (testosterone, dihydrotestosterone)
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needed to form a male
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estrogens, progestins
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required to make a female
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PRIMO
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Parts of a sexual profile:
patterns reproductive structure identity mechanisms orientation |
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ISNA
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Intersex Society of North America
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founded by Cheryl Chase
Cosmetic surgery on infants is harmful |
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transsexualism
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feel like you were born in the wrong body
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Problems with sexual dimorphism
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Assumes there are only two sexes, makes men and women polar opposites
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gender-blenders
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people who represent themselves as the opposite sex without surgery
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gender constancy
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knowing your gender is permanent
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gender typing
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stereotyping what is "feminine" and what is "masculine"
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How do children sex segregate themselves?
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Different tables at lunch, girl and boy games
children favor their own sex and devalue the other sex |
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puberty
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"to become hairy" the physical changes
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adolescence
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"to grow up" the cultural part of puberty
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Why do some girls mature late?
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mulnutrition, lack of fat, anorexia
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What is the "silencing" of girls?
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Girls lose the ability to take themselves seriously, "I don't know..."
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Who has the most eating disorders?
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white women
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What are some superstitions related to menstruating women?
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pollutant, angry
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What does early maturation usually lead to?
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earlier adult behaviors, drinking, sex, etc.
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