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. |