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Globalization the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture.
Consumerism a social and economic order and ideology that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-greater amounts.
Consumer Culture an interdisciplinary field that comprises macro, interpretive, and critical approaches to and perspectives of consumer behavior.
Exoticism So-called "oriental" art emanated from a type of primitive fantasy for Western society, reflecting the increasingly exotic tastes of Europe.
Body Modification Any additions or changes made to the body.
Victim-blaming Blaming the victim for things such as bullying, rape, etc.
Slut-shaming Putting down other women for their sexual actions or choice of dress.
Sexual assault any involuntary sexual act in which a person is threatened, coerced, or forced to engage against their will, or any sexual touching of a person who has not consented.
Feminism a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, cultural, and social rights for women.
First-Wave Feminism Period of feminist activity during the 19th and early 20th century throughout the world. It focused on legal disabilities, primarily on gaining women's suffrage
Second-Wave Feminism period of feminist activity that first began in the early 1960s in the United States, and eventually spread throughout the Western world. Focused on sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights,and official legal inequalities.
Third-Wave Feminism Identified with several diverse strains of feminist activity and study, whose exact boundaries in the historiography of feminism are a subject of debate, but are often marked as beginning in the early 1990s and continuing to the present.
Polygamy A marriage that includes more than two partners.
Polyandry A form of polygamy where a woman takes two or more husbands at one time.
Net Neutrality The principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially.
Antitrust Laws a collection of federal and state government laws, which regulates the conduct and organization of business corporations, generally to promote fair competition for the benefit of consumers.
Activism Getting involved to bring about change.
Personal Narrative A paper written about your own life experience.
Academic Writing A paper written without "I" or "you" that talks about a subject.
Malthusianism There should be checks to reduce the population, like sterilization.
Female Circumcision The cutting of the clitoris to keep a girl in good social standing.
Midwifery the art or act of assisting at childbirth; not a doctor.
Manifest Destiny The right to expand to the West.
Slut Walk a transnational movement of protest marches which began on April 3, 2011, in Toronto, Ontario. Participants protest against explaining or excusing rape by referring to any aspect of a woman's appearance and call for an end to rape culture.
Homophobia The fear of homosexuality.
Bechdel Test Tests female presence in movies.
Hegemony an indirect form of government, and of imperial dominance in which the leader state rules geopolitically subordinate states by the implied means of power, the threat of force, rather than by direct military force.
FCC regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.
Maquiladora Factories on the border used for cheap labor.
Femicide The killing of women
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