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Feminist Criticism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| patriarchy | any culture that privileges men by promoting traditional gender roles |
| traditional gender roles | men are rational, strong, protective, and masculine; women are emotional, weak, nurturing, and feminine |
| biological essentialism | the belief that traditional gender roles are acceptable because men are naturally masculine while women are naturally feminine |
| sex | how men and women are differentiated from each other biologically |
| gender | how men and women have been differentiated from eachother according to society |
| social construction | constructed from society; not inherent by its nature |
| materialist feminism (French) | focuses on the social and economic oppresion of women, especially that women are treated like property and are obliged to work at home unpaid instead of finding a job. |
| psychoanalytic feminism (French) | focuses on the psychology of women and their responses to constant oppression. |
| sexage | 1) Taking time from a women through marriage 2) Deciding how many children a women will have 3) Obligating a women or wife to have sex 4) Reqiuring a women to take care of the members of the family who cannot take care of themselves |
| patriarchal binary thought | system of language that gives a positive, masculine connotation to a term and a negative, feminine connontation to its opposite. ex. day and night, active and passive, aggression and submission, reason and emotion |
| semiotic language | putting emotions and musicality into language through inflection, tone, and volume |
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