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LIT Exam
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Third World Woman | A stereotype: poor, oppressed, uneducated. |
| Althusser | Ideology & Social Control |
| Angela Carter | The Tiger's Bride |
| Apparatus | Structures that maintain social order |
| Beauvoir | Gender as Social Construction |
| bell hooks | The Oppositional Gaze |
| Biopower & Biopolitics | Focus on managing populations (health, reproduction, life). |
| Body Politic | The nation imagined as a body (often male, white |
| Carmen Maria Machado | The Husband Stitch |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | The Yellow Wallpaper |
| Chivalry / Rescue Paradigm | Saving' women used to justify domination |
| Claudia Rankine | Citizen |
| Contracts | who counts as a citizen. |
| Critique of Simone de Beauvoir | Western feminism treats 'woman' as universal. |
| Discipline & Disciplinary Power | Power works through everyday routines |
| Discursive Colonization | When Western perspectives dominate and define 'Third World women |
| Douglass Schrock & Michael Schwalbe | Men, Masculinity, & Manhood Acts |
| Dramaturgical Model | Life = performance (roles, scripts, props) |
| Edwidge Dandicat | Caroline's Wedding |
| Eternal Feminine | Myth of a 'natural' woman. |
| Foucault | Power, Discipline, and the Body |
| George Saunders | The Simplica-Girl Diaries |
| Governmentality | How people are governed through norms, not just laws. |
| Hailing | The moment you recognize yourself in that call. |
| Hegemonic Masculinity | Dominant ideal (strong, dominant, heterosexual). |
| hooks | Black Feminist Media Critique |
| Ideological State Apparatus (ISA) | Subtle control (schools, family, media, religion). |
| Ideology | A system of beliefs that shapes how we see the world. |
| Interpellation | The process by which ideology 'calls' you into a social identity. |
| Jamaica Kincaid | Girl |
| James Cain | The Baby in the Icebox |
| James Cain | The Birthday Party |
| Laura Mulvey | Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema |
| Louis Althusser | The Ideological State Apparatus |
| Male Gaze | Camera = male perspective. |
| Misrecognition | You don't realize it's constructed—you think it's natural. |
| Mohanty | Critique of Western Feminism |
| Muller v. Oregon | (1908)(Supreme Court case) |
| Mulvey | The Male Gaze in Cinema |
| Nirwal Puwar | Of Men and Empire," from Space Invaders |
| Oppositional Gaze | Looking critically against dominant images. |
| Public vs Private Split | Men → public (power), Women → private (home). |
| Puwar | Bodies, Space, and Power |
| Recognition | You see yourself in the role. |
| Repressive State Apparatus (RSA) | Direct control (police, military, law). |
| Reproduction | Society reproduces (maintains) its structures over time through ideology. |
| Schrock & Schwalbe | Masculinity & Social Performance |
| Scopophilia | Pleasure in looking. |
| Simone de Beauvoir | The Second Sex |
| Susan Glaspell | A Jury of Her Peers |
| Susanna Rowson | Charlotte Temple |
| The Second Sex | Women defined in relation to men. |
| Woman as 'Becoming' | You aren't born a woman—you become one through society. |
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