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Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots Ch 8

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show The starting point of all its investigation is the situations and experiences of women in society. It seeks to describe & critically evaluate the world from the distinctive vantage points of women.  
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How does feminist theory develop the concept of gender?   show
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show Feminist activism  
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What did the first-wave feminist activism center on?   show
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show Translating basic political rights into tangible economic and social equality with men.  
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show TRUE  
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show Blind to their presence.  
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show Why is all this as it is?  
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What is a concept developed in feminist sociological theory to distinguish between sex, the biologically determined attributes associated with male and female, and socially constructed behaviors associated with masculinity and femininity?   show
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Nearly all feminist theories agree on what about gender?   show
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What is the third question of feminism?   show
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What is the distinctive character of critical social theory?   show
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Which theories share the commitment to social transformation in the interest of justice?   show
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show And what about the differences among women?  
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show Class, race, age, affectional preference, marital status, religion, ethnicity, and global location.  
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show What we have taken as universal and absolute knowledge is in fact knowledge derived from the experiences of a powerful section of society, men as masters.  
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Feminism does what two things to established knowledge?   show
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show By showing their masculinist bias and the gender politics framing and informing them.  
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show Whether there is a single woman's standpoint (as positioned by other marginalized groups). Validity of the binary understanding of gender as masculine or feminine. The reality of gender, of individual self & hence standpoint of women (postmodernism).  
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show Harriet Martineau  
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show "How to Observe Morals and Manners" by Harriet Martineau  
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show Harriet Martineau  
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show Erasure  
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Name some of the women who formed a broad and connected network of social reformers who were developing pioneering sociological theories at the same time as Durkheim, Weber, Simmel and Mead were creating the academic field of sociology?   show
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What were the first two chief hallmarks of the foremothers of sociological theory?   show
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What were the second two chief hallmarks of the foremothers of sociological theory?   show
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show An instrument of his will, denying the subordinate's individual capacity for thought and opinion.  
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What distinguishes classical women theorists from each other?   show
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What did developing sociology use to define classical women theorists as "not sociologists?"   show
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show Aim to reform the gender system by equalizing opportunities for men & women. Aim to resist the gender system by actively promoting the value of women's ways of being. Rebel against the gender system by challenging the existence of gender itself.  
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show Reform  
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show Resist  
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What approach do postmodern and queer theories take to gender inequality according to Lorber?   show
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What question does Ritzer's typology of feminism theories focus on?   show
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show Women's location in and experience of most situations is: Different than men's. Not only different but unequal to men's. Women are oppressed. Women's experiences of difference, inequality & oppression vary according to structure (structural oppression  
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show From women's oppression to oppressive practices and structures that impact the lives of the majority of the world's population - men and women.  
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show Between emphasis on culture and meaning, and emphasis on material consequences of power.  
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show Problematizing gender.  
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show Psychoanalytic feminism, and to some degree radical feminist theory  
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show Ethnomethodology and intersectionality  
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show Cultural feminism Phenomenological Institutional Interactional/ethnomethodological  
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show Liberal feminism Rational choice feminism  
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According to Ritzer's typology, what feminist theories fall in the gender oppression category?   show
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show Socialist feminism Intersectionality theory  
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What do theories of gender difference have to confront?   show
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What does the essentialist argument trace the supposed fundamental differences between men and women to?   show
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show The social value of women's distinctive ways of being that are different from men.  
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What qualities did theorists such as Margaret Fuller, Frances Wilard, Jane Addams, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman argue that the governing of society needs that women provide?   show
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What is the best known contemporary work on cultural feminism?   show
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show Male-centered  
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show Women are marginalized as "Other" in a male created culture.  
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What is a feminist theory of difference that sees people born into a world shaped by a culture that reflects male experience and ignores or marginalizes women's experiences?   show
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TRUE or FALSE - According to existential or phenomenological feminism, women do not internalize the "otherness" assigned by males?   show
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What critical questions does existential or phenomenological feminism ask?   show
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show When they develop a consciousness and culture that is uniquely theirs.  
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show Feminist institutional theory  
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What is a feminist theory that views gender as an accomplishment by skilled actors in interaction with others who hold them accountable for conforming to appropriate gender behavior?   show
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