Women's Studies - Exam #1 (Chapters 1-3)

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androcentrism

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putting men at the center and regulating women to outsiders in society

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gender

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the way society organizes understandings of sexual difference

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patriarchy

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system where men dominate because power and authority are in the hands of adult men

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Equal Pay Act of 1963

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equl pay for people doing same work

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Title VII

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forbade workplace discrimination

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Roe v. Wade

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legalized abortion

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Title IX

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forbade gender discrimination in schools

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gynocentrism

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starting with women, women at center

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second wave feminism

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mid 1960's-70's
started alonside civil rights, anti-war, gay, environmental movements
conciousness-raising time
ended in 1980 presidential election (Reagan-Bush era)

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consciousness-raising groups

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telling stories with other women, find commonalities not counseling sessions, personal matters become political, they realize they're not alone

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stereotype

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belief about a group applied to an individual perceived as belonging to that group

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generalization

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used in survey, census, stat samples

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stereotypes of feminists

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lesbian, no girlie clothes or makeup, think men are evil, crazy, hairy, feminazi

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misunderstandings of feminism

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girls gone wild, all lesbians, men-haters

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first wave feminism

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1830's-1920
started alongside abolitionist and temperance movement
ended with 19th amendment giving women right to vote
susan b. anthony and elizabeth stanton duo

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third wave feminism

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1993-present
focused on issues of sexuality and identity, postmodern and multiracial
riot gurl, 'zines, bust magazine, bitch magazine

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mythical norm

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women are thought of as white, middle-class, heterosexual, abled, thing, young adult

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compulsory heterosexuality

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notion that everyone should be straight and have relationships with opposite sex

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ableism

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discrimination against mentally and physically disabled

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institutionalized

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officially placed into a structured system or set of practice

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privilege

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advantages people have by virtue of their status or position in society

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-isims

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facilitate privilege and inequality, subordination and domination

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racism

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based on racial or ethnic group

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sexism

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based on gender

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classism

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based on socioeconomic status

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heterosexism

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based on sexual identity

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ageism

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based on age

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looksism

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based on looks

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sizeism

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based on body size

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confluence

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flowing together of various identities
identities not stacked separately, but blended

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homophobia

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fear or dislike of lesbians and gay men

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institutions

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social organizations that involve established patterns of behavior organized around particular purposes

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ideology

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set of beliefs

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bootstrap myth

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people that work hard and are ambitious WILL have economic success and can pull themselves up by their bootstraps
if someone can't be successful economically, they MUST have deficiencies

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prejudice

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making premature judgements without adequate info or with inaccurate info

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internalized prejudice

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incorporated into our thoughts and behavior

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target group

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group against whom a prejudice is aimed

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nontarget groups

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groups against target groups, often part of the mythical norm

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horizontal hostility

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deploying message against person in same group as you
ex: middle school girl that is starving herself to get thin tells her friend that his eating a full plate of food that she will get fat if she eats it

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sexual terrorism

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threat of rape and sexual assault that controls a woman's life whether or not she is actually physically or sexually violated

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feminism

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sees a future of human dignity and equality for ALL
inclusive and affirmative of women
movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression

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dowry

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used to be a gift for bride if husband leave or dies, but now it has been corrupted

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bride price

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given to family of bride by in-law family for of her labor

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women in traditional school curriculum

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absence- women would take sociology and not be learning about themselves,
trivialization- women's lesson would just be tacked on,
misrepresentation- "women weren't really important in that era"

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agency

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ability to choose and act

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layers

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bottom layer- agents
middle layer- systems of inequality
top layer- institutions

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oppression

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when someone internalizes oppression, they oppress themselves (trying to meet society's ideal)
we oppress ourselves if we take the messages the institutions give us and believe them as true and try to change ourselves to meet their standards
ex: believing that starving and crazy diets are only way to get a good body like celebrities
ex: families telling children they can't aspire to do certain things because of their economic/social situation

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language

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key institution that provides opportunities and constraints

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horatio alger myth

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bootstrap myth

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air time

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many men command more space in conversation than women

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intersex

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person with genitalia not clearly male or female

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transgendered

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person who resists the social construction of gender into two distinct categories

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transsexual

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person who believes s/z/he was born with the body of the wrong sex and who desires chemical or surgical altering

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transvestitie

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person who wears clothes of "opposite" gender for sexual pleasure