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Glossary 4
English Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Black women´s existence, experience and culture and the brutally complex systems of oppression which shape these (B.Smith). | (BLACK-WOMAN) INVISIBILITY |
Learned magazines which publish scholarly articles. | ACADEMIC JOURNALS |
A term which refers to the systematic stereotyping of and discrimination against people because they are old. | AGEISM |
Art which focuses on, is inspired by and gives the perspective of Black women. | BLACK-WOMAN IDENTIFIED ART |
A term in radical and lesbian theory for the enforcement of heterosexuality. It includes the ideological and political control of women’s sexuality | COMPULSORY HETEROSEXUALITY |
The main mechanism underlying and perpetuating male dominance (Adrienne Rich). | COMPULSORY HETEROSEXUALITY |
Weakens, removes power from (in this case, women) | DISEMPOWER |
(adj.) Causes extreme indignation, irritation, annoyance. | GALLING |
The study of gender as an analytical reference. | GENDER STUDIES |
Denotes the cultural constitution of femininity or masculinity, the notions concerning what is ‘appropriate’ to either gender, and the ways in which these serve ideologically to maintain gendered identities. | GENDER |
The belief that heterosexuality is the only “normal mode of sexual and social relations. | HETEROCENTRITY |
The practice of viewing reality (or human relations) from a heterosexual perspective. | HETEROCENTRITY |
Term that avoid the clinical ring of lesbianism asn refers to all experiences shared by women, experiences that strengthen bonds among themselves and against male oppression. | LESBIAN CONTINUUM |
Term that avoid the clinical ring of lesbianism and refers to the actual presence of lesbians, past and present | LESBIAN EXISTENCE |
A critical practice in which the defining feature is making sexual orientation a fundamental category of analysis and understanding. | LESBIAN/GAY CRITICISM |
A critical practice that creates an alternative canon of lesbian/gay writer´s works. | LESBIAN/GAY CRITICISM |
A critical practice that equates the sense of being lesbian or gay with the metaphorical transgression of boundaries or limits of the “normal”. | LESBIAN/GAY CRITICISM |
A critical practice that exposes homosexual characteristics of standard literary works. | LESBIAN/GAY CRITICISM |
A critical practice that focuses on literary genres which have strongly shaped western standards of masculinity or femininity. | LESBIAN/GAY CRITICISM |
A critical practice that reveals the homophobia of standard literature and criticism which suppress certain explicitly homosexual material or simply fail to study it. | LESBIAN/GAY CRITICISM |
A critical practice that selects lesbian/gay passages in standard literary works and analyze them as such. | LESBIAN/GAY CRITICISM |
The moral and legal privilege to intervene in all aspects of a woman´s life. | MALE RIGHT OF ACCESS |
(v. numb) To remove all sensations from; to paralyze, stupefy. | NUMBING |
Ignorant of, blind or insensitive towards. | OBLIVIOUS |
Apparent seeming, not real feminists (Barbara Smith). | OSTENSIBLE FEMINISTS |
(v. overwhelm) To overpower with emotion, bury or drown beneath a huge mass, submerge utterly. | OVERWHELMING |
A critical practice that rejects female separatism and istead sees an identity of political and social interests with gay men. T he term is intended to mark a critical distance from the earlier and marginalized ‘gay and le | QUEER THEORY (OR QUEER STUDIES) |
The political character of race which is based on the unequal power of white-black relations. | RACIAL POLITICS |
The political character of sexuality which is based on the unequal power of sexual relations. | SEXUAL POLITICS |
To feel an identification with women (as opposed to men).Adrienne Rich Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence | WOMAN IDENTIFICATION |