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WOST midterm
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Patriarchy | A hierarchical social system in which men hold most positions of power and privilege. |
| Sex | A biologically based term and usually defines a person by genitalia. |
| Gender | Socially constructed behavioral norms assigned to men and women. |
| Masculinity | Of, relating to, or suited to men or boys. |
| Androgyny | Having both male or female characteristics or qualities. |
| Femininity | Of, relating to, or suited to women or girls. |
| Transgender | Of or relating to people who have a sexual identity that is not clearly male or clearly female |
| Intersectionality | a concept often used in critical theories to describe the ways in which oppressive institutions (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, classism, etc.) are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another. |
| White Privilege | the set of societal privileges that white people benefit from beyond those commonly experienced by people of color in the same social, political, or economic spaces. |
| Gender Performance | The act of performing a certain gender by portraying concepts that are generally related to a certain gender. |
| Whitening | Making someone appear more white though features or skin color, so as to be more accepted by society. |
| Marked/Unmarked categories | Markedness is the state of standing out as unusual in comparison to a more common or regular form. Unmarked is the broader, dominant one. |
| The "other" | Anything that is not the same as the norm. |
| Body Image | how you see yourself when you look in the mirror or when you picture yourself in your mind. |
| Fat/Thin Shaming | Shaming someone for their body type. |
| Sexism | discrimination or devaluation based on a person's sex. |
| Capitalism | economic system based on private ownership of the means of production, in which personal profit can be acquired through investment of capital and employment of labor. |
| Heteronormativity | the body of lifestyle norms that holds that people fall into distinct and complementary genders (man and woman) with natural roles in life. Heterosexuality is the only sexual orientation or only norm. |
| Male Privilege | the social theory which argues that men have unearned social, economic, and political advantages or rights that are granted to them solely on the basis of their sex, and which are usually denied to women. |
| Domesticity | Life inside a home that is usually catered towards women. |
| Cult of True Womanhood | A value system among the upper and middle classes during the nineteenth century. New ideas of femininity, the woman's role within the home and the dynamics of work and family. Possess four virtues: piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness. |
| Cultural Appropriation | the adoption of some specific elements of one culture by a different cultural group. |
| Smurfette Principle | One girl in a group of guys. |
| Ms. Male Character Type | Female character based almost exactly after her male counterpart. |
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