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Womens Studies
resisting the social construction of gender into two distinct categories
| Womens Studies | Description |
|---|---|
| What is Womens Studies? | The examination of women's experiences that recognizes our achievements and addresses our status in society |
| Androcentrism | confusion of maleness with humanity, which puts men at the center and relegates women to outsiders in society. |
| gender | can be defined as the way society organizes understandings of sexual difference |
| patriarchy | can be defined as a sysrem in which men dominate because power and authority are in the hands of adult men |
| second wave | womens movement of the 1960's and 1970's |
| interdisciplinary | combines knowledge from and methodologies of disciplines across humanities and the social and biological sciences it analyzes. |
| misogyny | `the hatred of women |
| lesbian baiting | feminists being accused of being lesbians in an effort to discredit and prevent women from joining the movementand taking womens classes |
| homophobia | the societal fear or hatred of lesbians and gay men. |
| Compulsory Heterosexuality | the notion that everyone should be heterosexual and have relationships with the opposite sex. |
| Ableism | discrimination against the mentally retarded nd physically disabled. |
| Privilege | can be defined as special advantages people have by virtue of their status or position in society. |
| Confluence | the flowing together of various identities |
| Hate crimes | Crimes whose motives are hate and bigotry and whose perpetrators are most likely heterosexual |
| Sexual terrorism | The threat of rape and sexual assault that controls a womens life, whether or not she is actually raped or assaulted. |
| Institutions | social organizations that involve establishes patterns of behavior organized around particular purposes. |
| Internalized | assimilated, intergrated, or incorporated into our thoughts and behavior |
| horizontal hostility | when individuals direct the resentment and anger they have about their situation onto those who are of equal or of lesser status |
| Language | the symbolic menas by which we communicate |
| Gender Socialization | a process by which we are taught and learn the appropriate thinking and behaviors assosciated with being a boy or a girl. |
| transgendered | involves resisting the social construction of gender into 2 distinct categories, masculinity and feminity, and working to break down these constraining categories |
| Transexual | are people who believe that they ARE born with the bodies of the wrong sex. usually they desire to be surgically a;tered to claim a sex different from the one into which they were born. |
| Androgyny | can be defined as the lack of gender differentiation;androgenous persons display a balanced mixture of recognizable feminine and masculine traits. |
| Machismo | involves breaking rules, sexual potency contextualized in the blending of sex and violence, and contempt for women (misogyny) |
| Another dimension of masculinity | is the provider role, composed of ambition, confidence, competence, and strength. |
| Sexual scripts | reflect norms, practices, and workings of power, and they provide frameworks and guidelines for sexual feelings, and behaviors |
| sexual desire and gender article emphasized two key points | a) that sexuality is about society as much as it is about biological urges, and b)the most significant dimension of sexuality is gender |
| Sexual self schemas | can be defined as identities or cognitive generalization about sexual aspects of the self that are established from past and present experiences, and that guide sexual feelings or behavior. |
| Politics | the term implies issues assosciated with the distribution of power in sexual relationships. |
| Emma Goldman | according to J Edgar Hoover, she was the most dangerous woman in 20th century n america. She was drawn to anarchism and became a revolutionary. she was a nurse in new yorks ghettos. She was particulary concerned about sexual politics within anarchism. pg |
| objectification | seeing the body as an object, and separate from its context |
| 2 issues assosciated with the cultural preoccupation of woman and the body. | a) close relationship between mother and nature and bodily functions, and |
| nature | the body, the earth, and the domestic WOMEN |
| Culture | the mind rather thatn the body and abstract reason rather than earthly mundane matters MEN |
| biological determinism | - a tendency that sees women in terms of their reproductive and biological selves. |
| disciplinary practices | shaving, makeup, etc pg 206 |
| know eating disorders | anorexia, bulimia, etc. |
| medicalization | the process whereby normal functions of the body come to be seen as indicative of disease. |
| gender stereotyping | encompasses how notions about feminity and masculinity inform everyday understanding of health care occupations and influence how medical practioners treat their patients. |
| Reproductive choice | involves being able to have safe and affordable birth control techonologies, freedom from forces sterilization, and the availability of abortion. |
| eugenics | racist and classiist idea that certain groups have more right to reproduce than others; a belief and social practice. |
| Griswold VS CT | mid- 60's decision that allowed married couples the right to birth control. |
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