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Define: Third Wave Feminism
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-New energy after failure of ERA, coined by Walker
-Goal: how to organize feminism and make political change -Difference at the center of 3rd wave feminism, broaden to race, gender, class, justice (personal narrative rather than overarching agenda) -Leaders born in 60s/70s, gender equality is how it should be attitude -CR necessary for action -Critiques media, reconstruct binaries, subversion/humor, theory-making expansion, sex positive |
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Define: beauty myth
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-Replaced the feminine mystique
-Naomi Wolf published work -Expectation of beauty, too pretty or too ugly (focus on looks instead of accomplishments) -Objectification of women, the "myth" damages |
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Define: purtity/pollution binary
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-Purity as women's ideal (they can be corrupted), used to contain/oppress women
-Binary used to make order and meaning of the world -Only married sex as pure -Black women seen as promiscious/polluted and homosexuals |
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Define: homosocial
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-An all one sex environment usually refers to all male, implications of this environment will foster certain gender roles/dynamics
-Mentioned in Masculinity as Homophobia (Kimmel) -More common in 1830s, how marketplace manhood developed rural environment and new division of labor -Risk of failure, relentless male competition -Ex. sports team, prison |
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Define: marketplace manhood
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-Narrow definition of what a man should be
-Absent father, connects capitalistic marketplace to men's drive for power and success -From the 1830s homosocial communities (division of labor) -Kimmel -Defining notion of American manhood today -Masculinity must be proved (repetitive cycle), impossible standards |
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Define: trans liberation
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-Leslie Feinberg at forefront, Transexual Menace
-Movement focused on the rights of transgendered people -Greater acceptance and understanding of trans people -All gender performative -Societal treatment of people based on their sex and gender expression, goal: fight for justice |
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Define: genderqueer
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-Those who identify their gender outside the gender binary system of male and female
-Gender presentation may or may not conform to gender norms -Use gender neutral pronouns -Wilchins defines as link in feeling/expressing/being-perceived fails, when all aren't in harmony |
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Define: The Stonewell Riots
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-1969
-Gay clubs in NY targeted but anti-gay, but Stonewall Inn still going strong, then invaded Stonewall, riots for 3 to 4 days -Lead to more organized action -Beginning/sparked gay liberation movement |
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Define: democratic manhood
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-From Kimmel's "Masculinity in the Age of Obama"
-After economic downturn and increase of women in the workforce=both softening and hardening of stereotypes -Obama is a different kind of masculine, definition broader, optimistic -Historically, exclusion of groups from masculinity -Hope will change to inclusion, shared responsibilities and rights, integrity (return to this idea) |
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Define: sexual fluidity
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-Anne Fausto-Sterling
-Idea that we should accept the complexity of human sexuality -Kinsey Scale=example of a continuum (still subjective) -Binaries restricting fluidity -Gender socially constructing, ever-changing -Sex used to be about acts, now about identity |
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What did Rebecca Walker write?
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Becoming the Third Wave
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What did Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardener write?
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The Dinner Party/Manifesta
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What did Nancy Fischer write?
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Purity and Pollution
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What did Chet Meeks write?
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Gay and Straight Rites of Passage
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What did Anne Fausto-Sterling write?
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Thinking About Homosexuality
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What did Reese Kelly write?
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Gay marriage. Why now? Why at all?
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What did Naomi Wolf write?
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The Beauty Myth
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What did Michael Kimmel write?
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-Masculinity as Homophobia
-Masculinity in the Age of Obama |
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What did Riki Wilchins write?
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It's Your Gender, Stupid!
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What did Leslie Feinberg write?
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We Are All Works in Progress
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What are the main points in "Becoming the Third Wave" and who was the author?
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-Rebecca Walker
-Anita Hill case -In Miss Magazine (women's magazine) -Coined the term 3rd Wave Feminism -Although come a long way, still need to come together and identify goals -Critique of presumably progressive men (boyfriend took Thomas' side, civil rights>women) -Difference at center of 3rd wave, no single women experience |
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What are the main points in "The Dinner Party" and who was the author?
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-Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardener
-Silence is a road block, must talk about things, CR not just organized but everyday lives fighting for equality and power (necessary for action) -Organize feminism to make political change -Personal narrative=displays differences, preserve diversity, lots of forms of justice (race gender class) -Feminism like flouride -Feminists now experts in their fields |
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What are the main points in "Purity and Pollution" and who was the author?
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-Nancy Fischer
-Policing gender and sexuality through social means makes us feel better -Idea of sex as immoral is social power/control, religious context, but socially constructed (changed over time) -Sexual double standard=male power dynamic -Purity as women's ideal used to oppress women |
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What are the main points in "Gay and Straight Rites of Passage" and who was the author?
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-Chet Meeks
-Coming out vs. Mormon marriages=getting a new identity w/ values attached to it -Sexuality feels natural/instinctive, but really socially constructed (even desire is a social product) |
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What are the main points in "Thinking About Homosexuality" and who was the author?
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-Anne Fausto-Sterling
-Science about gender very subjective, not biological -Cultural/human influence of how we think of sex science needs to change -Human sexuality is fluid (changed over time) -Kinsey Scale=continuum, but still problems -Binaries exist to make sense of sexuality (twin testing, not genetic) |
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What are the main points in "Gay marriage. Why now? Why at all? and who is the author?
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-Reese Kelly
-Queers argue marriage/non-marriage binary is too strict -Marriage has rights/benefits=queers say marriage shouldn't be the only way to get these benefits -Outdated article (14 states allow gay marriage) -Politics of fear |
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What are the main points in "The Beauty Myth" and who was the author?
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-Naomi Wolf
-Replaced Feminine Mystique (expectation of beauty) -Started conversation about beauty -Women's magazines and advirtising paradox (connection to capitalism) -Physical damage the myth does (anorexia, ect.) -Women's lack of political efficacy -Female competiton=we're our biggest critics -Potential damaged by these factors b/c of media, capitalism, self objectification) |
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What are the main points in "Masculinity as Homophobia" and who was the author?
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-Michael Kimmel
-Masculinity studies as recent -Manhood socially constructed not innate or natural -Marketplace Manhood and homosocial communities -Men also held to impossible standards -Masculinity and homophobia=not really a fear a gay ppl but of being unmanly, men vs men competition, heterosexual as masculine ideal, weakness/femininity with homosexuals -Feminine definition of masculinity (they feel powerless=shame) |
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What are the main points in "Masculinity in the Age of Obama" and who was the author?
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-Michael Kimmel
-Obama embodies different kind of masculinity -After economic downturn and increase of women in workforce -Both softening and hardening of stereotypes (anger) |
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What are the main points in "It's Your Gender, Stupid!" and who was the author?
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-Riki Wilchins
-Transliberation -All gender is drag, all a performance, still externally constructed, still "acting" women -Continuum frustration=still competing ends -Gender as a way of seeing, binary needs to be broadened -But problem if there's no symbolic meaning to performance, don't get transgression -Genderqueer=link in feeling/expressing/being-perceived fails, when all aren't in harmony -Gender from language |
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What are the main points in "We Are All Works in Progress" and who was the author?
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-Leslie Feinberg
-Dangers of being trans, prejudices, raising awareness -Audience=ppl who aren't trans |