Women's Studies Review

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LIFESTYLE FEMINISM

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no matter what a woman’s politics, she can fit feminism into her lifestyle, takes the politics out of feminism; “women can be feminists without fundamentally challenging and changing themselves or the culture; a way of living that embodies feminism, everyday life, not political, convenient feminism

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Liberal feminism

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an orientation towards inequality/sexism that targets the legal system and reform changes to that system

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Marxist/socialist feminism

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emphasizes that feminism responds to in part if not in whole to a question of who controls the production/economy/economic relations

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radical feminism

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understand the problem to which feminism is a response cannot be limited is at every level, happens in most personal relations

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Ideology

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a system of ideas and beliefs that orient action and legitimize political and social arrangements
i. Enables us to see something
ii. Not good or bad, but our ideology affects how we react and interact
iii. Way to make sense of the world

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institutionalized sexism

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sexism is deeply embedded in practices and processes, held in place and reproduced at the level of social structures and institutions; sexism is found and played out in all levels of institutions

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social construction of gender

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does not mean that gender is unreal, it’s very real, does not mean physical bodies are irrelevant gender is a fxn of multiple historical processes that shape what femininity and masculinity mean and are; our cultures have made feminism what it has become have defined masculine and feminine

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identity politics

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a politics that’s based on commonalities of experience that are attributed to a feature of one’s identity

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structural intersectionality

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systems of race, gender, and class domination converge

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political intersectionality

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how the pursuit of political interests push and pull antiracism politics vs. anti-sexism politics

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privilege

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a favored STATUS, earned or unearned

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dominance

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unearned POWER conferred systematically

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sexuality

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erotic attachments or desires

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social reproduction

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array of activities that require labor and skills, unpaid, unrecognized labor

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Socialization

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A set of experiences people have in their interactions with families, groups and communities where they learn the behaviors, social norms, knowledge and skills necessary to be productive members of society: voters: taxpayers, workers, and ethical leaders, as well as engaged parents and community members.

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coverature

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by marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband; under whose wing , protection and cover, she performs everything

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globalization

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intensification of connections which transcend the nation state

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imperialism

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the policy and practice of seeking to dominate the economic and political affairs of other countries

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global feminism

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does not exist; looks at relations between counties and how they affect each other