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33 Cards in this Set
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Third Wave Feminism |
-1980-present -Ideas from the second wave were under attack -Marginalized women pointed to race, class, able-bodiness and sexuality as configurations of oppression; -Draw upon tools of deconstruction to unravel (decode) constructions of women’s subjectivity; -Focuses on uncovering silences -Decolonization, environmental change -intersectionality |
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Flexible Production Regimes |
contract work, women's labor, exploration and cheaper labor Ex: Joe Fresh |
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Wangari Maathai |
started the Gren belt movement in 1977 -green roots activist -women's movement throughout the globe |
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BOF |
Beijing Platform for Action -1995 3 strategic objectives 1. take integrative measures to eliminate violence 2.study causes and consequences of violence and the effectiveness of programming 3. eliminate trafficking in women and assist victims of violence due to prostitution and trafficking |
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Sunnah/ haram |
Handful of ash pure and forbidden |
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Environmentalism/ Environmental Change and Women/ Consequences of Environmental Change
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-Women arebelieved to be more vulnerable to climate change and environmental degradation,as they are the primary cultivators and gatherers of food, water, and fuel forfamily consumption;
-Environmentaldegradation = more time spent on tasks; -Moretime spent working = reduced time for education, literacy, andincome-generating activities |
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HumanTrafficking
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-3rd largest illegal industry in the world, generating $32 billion annually
-20.9 million people in forced labor between 2002-2011 -Sex trafficking: 2-4 million women & girls annually -poor labor conditions increased human trafficking -eastern Europe |
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Gendered Violence
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-rape, domestic violence;reinforces men’s power over women;
Example:femicide in Mexico |
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IPV
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-domestic violence or intimate partner violence -every 6 days a woman is murdered in Canada
-first 18months are the most dangerous -sask has the highest rate in Canada for partner killing in a year more woman would have been killed then soldiers in Iraq |
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Ethnocentrism
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the belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture. and to view other cultures as alien like. women's movement. The women in the global north don't understand the needs of the women in the global south. |
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Maquilas |
-gender violence, human trafficking, humanization. the US -Mexican border a strip of women working |
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activism |
fighting for a movement- comes in the third wave. |
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Practices to control women's sexuality
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-human rights approach -violation of human rights -FMG -Advertisements |
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Gender Mainstreaming |
Makes sure that gender equality concerns are taken into account in all developmental activities. -goal: direct development resources to women and reduce poverty -objective: increased empowerment and autonomy -economic theory -standpoint perspective -the role of women in the economy- their issues weren't being addressed |
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Shared Oppression |
-context is different -certain issues that unite us |
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Femicide |
the killing of women- mass murder of only women....EX: Mexico |
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Khatana |
The clitoris |
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Greenbelt Movement |
started by Wangarri Maathai. -severe deforestation and soil erosion -address poverty and environmental conservation. -they create income opportunities for rural farmers to grow tree seedings -movement organised women to plant trees(40million trees, 50000 women) |
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FGM |
Female Genital Mutilation -cutting off of the Clitoris |
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Sexual tourism |
-often part of Tourism packages -sexual exploitation -US Army sees “sexual recreation” as vital to the well-being and moral of its troops and, as such, the US military bases in Japan, Korea, and Philippines coordinated with the governments to provide servicemen with trafficked women |
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WID v. GAD |
Women in development approach: -Income generating projects -makes sure that gender equality concerns are taken into account in all developmental activities Gender and development: -scholars and policy planners discuss the relationship between development processes and womens inequality. -they have been ethnocentrism -job market and education. |
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Boserup |
ester Boserup -we need to acknowledge women or the program will fail. -women are being left out. |
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colonization and the global south |
-lack of education -lack of safe sex teaching -women didn't always have a political role -higher rates of HIV -the environmental change, more work, the double day. |
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Interlocking forms of domination |
-women's roles and social standing |
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Transnational Feminism |
that cuts across geographic bodies women's oppression |
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themes in global women's studies |
-violence -feminism -equality of women |
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UN-Stop Rape Now |
the rape in the Kongos -conflict zones -rape from the military -women become victims of rape -political views, to shame the culture, impregnates, attack on the culture |
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Culture of machismo |
-masculinity:violent, aggressive, acceptable to the culture |
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Microcredit |
-understanding that if you give a woman a 100$ it gives access to resources and benefits the family and the community. |
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Erving Goffman |
codes of gender -gender binaries -roles of male and female -that we have to act in a certain way -mediated images of femininity and masculinity |
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Codes of femininity and masculinity |
-submissive of women -men are controlling and dominate -infantilization, and sexualization men= strong, dominate, controlling, active, asserted Women= weak, helpless, severing, open, childlike |
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Ritualization of subordination |
where women are placed submissive in an advertisement -cultural-femininity as subordinate |
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the male gaze |
the women will always be at the attention, placed in these positions, but they never look at the camera, only the men do. |
