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38 Cards in this Set
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Intersectionality |
The fact that gender isn't an isolated social fact about us, but instead intersects with our other identities |
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Gender Strategy |
Finding a way of doing gender that works for us as unique individuals |
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Sexual Minorities |
The lives of LGB's |
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Homophobia |
The fear and hatred of sexual minorities |
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Compulsory Heterosexuality |
All women attracted to men and all men attracted to women |
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Heteronormative |
Everyone is heterosexual unless there are signs indicating otherwise |
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Ageism |
A preference of young people, if you're old your social value is decreased |
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Patriarchy |
The control of female and younger male family members by select adult men |
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Brotherhood |
The distribution of power to a certain class of men |
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Formal Gender Equality |
The legal requirement that men and women be treated more or less the same |
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Modified Patriarchy |
Bilateral system |
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Sexism |
Prejudice against people based on their biological sex |
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Androcentrism |
Gender-based prejudice |
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Subordination |
Placing of women into positions that make them dependent on men |
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Hegemony |
Widely shared beliefs that make inequality seem inevitable or natural |
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Hegemonic Masculinity |
A type of men, idealized by men and women alike, who functions to justify and naturalize gender inequality |
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Hierarchy of Men |
A rough ranking of men from most to least masculine, more masculine is better |
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Colorism |
A racist preference for light skin |
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Hypermasculinity |
Extreme conformity to aggressive rules of mascilinity |
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Patriarchal Bargain |
A deal in which an individual or group accepts or even legitimates some of the cost of patriarchy in exchange for receiving some of its rewards |
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Feminine Apologetic |
The requirement that women balance their appropriation of masculine interests, traits, and activities with feminine performance |
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Benevolent Sexism |
The attribution of positive traits to women that justify women's subordination to men |
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Hostile Sexism |
The use of threats and violence to enforce woman's obedience to men |
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Emphasized Femininity |
An exaggerated form of femininity “oriented to accommodating the interests and desires of men” |
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Emphatic Sameness |
When girls try to be “just one of the guys” |
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Genderequivocation |
When women alternate between emphasized femininity and emphatic sameness when they're useful and culturally expected |
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Double Bind |
A situation in which cultural expectations are contradictory |
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Feminism |
The belief that all men and women should have equal rights and opportunities |
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Matrix of domination |
Equality for everyone |
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Stalled Revolution |
A sweeping change in gender relations that is stuck halfway through |
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Gendered Institution |
Gender is used as an organizing principle |
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Gender salience |
The noticability of gender across contexts, activities, and spaces (Children in environments with very strong and defined gender roles will be more likely to have categorization behavior/thinking in social situations)
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Gendered love/sex binary |
Women are believed to be motivated by love and men by sex |
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Sexual double standard |
Different rules for the sexual behavior of men and women |
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Good girl/bad girl dichotomy |
The idea that women who behave themselves sexually are worthy of respect and women who don’t are not |
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Breadwinner/housewife marriage |
Women owed men domestic services; in return, men were legally required to support their wives financially |
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Cult of domesticity |
The notion that women could and should wholeheartedly embrace the work of making a loving home |
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Treating |
A practice in which a man funds a women for a night on the town
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