Women's Studies

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is an interdisciplinary field of academic study that examines gender as a social and cultural construct, the social status and contributions of women, and the relationships between power and gender.

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Women's studies

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is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity. Depending on the context, these characteristics may include biological sex (i.e. the state of being male, female or intersex)

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Gender

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is a philosophy that holds with this ideal of equality. It is the belief that although they are different, men and women are equal.

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Feminism

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He thought women believed women were vengeful, castrating, penis-envying creatures who seek domination by men

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Sigmund Freud

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critiqued Freud’s conclusions, arguing that men both fear and “envy” the womb, which accounts for their “need” to dominate women

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Karen Horney

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“Women and men are more alike than they are different. Men are not from Mars; women are not from Venus—we are all from planet Earth.”

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Michael S. Kimmel

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will be used to indicate the biological categories within which people are typically placed, or the biological difference between males and females.

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Sex

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is the social significance of the difference in sex.

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Gender

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is the pattern of behaviors prescribed for and expected from a person that corresponds to their position in society

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Role

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is a composite image of characteristics and expectations pertaining to some group.

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Stereotype

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Is the condition of being alike in value, having the same potential for accomplishment, and having the same inherent worth—in spite of individual differences.

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Equality

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Family

Leader

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is a concept concerning a role, a position, or a physical image that contains only the most desirable traits or behaviors.

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Ideal

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recognizes that people’s perspectives, their perceptions of reality, and their actual realities—their truths—are dependent upon where they are positioned in society.

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Positionality

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is the hatred of or hostility toward women. In a society that subordinates women it is easy to understand that people within that society would or could hold such beliefs.

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Misogyny

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the “hidden” as well as the explicit values that societies and people hold—to see what people have believed about gender and sex.

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Ideologies