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3er Semestre Flashcards

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Nation

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Latin word “natio” (set of people). Strong sense of unity and consciusness.

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State

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“Status” (condition)

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Elements of a State

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  • Population
  • Territory
  • Government
  • Sovereignity
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Elements of a Nation

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  • Common territory
  • Race
  • Religion
  • Language
  • History
  • Culture
  • Political aspirations
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What is a paradigm?

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They are the different ways you see yourself, and life in general, usually without knowing all the facts. They can be positive or negative.

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Why can paradigms be harmful?

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Because they are often incorrect, since we form our conclusions based on inaccurate/incomplete evidence.

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Consequences of a wrong paradigm

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Lowers our quality of life

They keep us from enjoying things that we normally would

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Types of Paradigms

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  • Self Paradigms: the way we see ourselves, sometimes it’s completely different from how people see us.
  • Paradigms of others: how we see others based on looks.
  • Paradigms of life: the way we perceive life.
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Negative life centers

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  • School centered
  • Self centered
  • Stuff centered
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Positive life centers

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  • Principle centered
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Importance of understanding paradigms

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  • They are crucially important for research
  • Our point of view depends on them
  • Difficult to recognize (implicit, assumed, taken for granted)
  • Seem like the way things are
  • Most people don’t question them
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What is feminism?

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The advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of political, social and economic equally to men.

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Misconceptions of feminism

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  • Misogyny: hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women and girls.
  • Misandry: hatred or dislike of men or boys.
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Feminist theory

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Aims to understand the nature of inequality
Examples: 
-Discrimination
-Sexual objetification
-Opression
-Stereoryping
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Sexual objetification

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The act of treating a person as an instrument of sexual pleasure

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Stereotyping

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A thought that cab be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things.

  • Negative
  • Positive
  • Racial
  • Gender
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Oppression

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The exercise of authority or power in a cruel or injust manner.

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Discrimination

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The treatment of making a distinction in favor of, or against a person or thing.

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Male feminists

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Will Smith
Daniel Radcliffe
Dalai Lama
Barack Obama

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First world feminism

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Rape culture
Domestic violence
Equal pay between genders
Gender roles

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Rape culture

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Created when sexual violence becomes normalized and tolerated in a society.

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Domestic violence

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  • 1 woman is beaten every 9 seconds
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Equal pay between genders

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Concept of labor rights that individuals doing the same work should receive the same payment.
Example
- a woman earns 79 cents for every dollar a man earns

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Gender roles

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Set of social norms dictating the types of behaviors which are generally considered acceptable for people based on their gender.

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Third world feminism

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Present in Asia, Africa, and Latin America

  • Child marriage
  • Honour killing
  • Prostitution
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Child marriage

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A formal marriage or informal union before legal age of consent.
Reasons:
- Traditional System - Demand of dowry
- Pressure from relatives

Statistics
- 28 girls are married every minute. 1 every 2 seconds. 15 million a year.

Consequences

  • Health problems
  • Domestic violence
  • Reproductive complications
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Female education

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Education for women and girls

Effects

  • Provide an alternative opportunity other than marriage
  • Increase social economic status for women

Example: Malala Yousafzai

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Honour Killing

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Acts of vengeance, commited by male family members against female family members, who are held to have brought dishonour upon the family

Example
- Saba, “A girl in the river”

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Prostitution

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Child prostitution
Prostitution involving a child, form of commercial sexual exploitation

Forced prostituion
Taked place as a result of coercion by a thied party

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Powerful and influential women

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Mary Wollstonecraft
Amelia Bloomer
Simone de Beauvoir
Alice Paul
Lucy Stone
Carrie Chapman
Betty Friedan
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Mary Wollstonecraft

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“A vindication of the rights of women”. Daughter of Mary Shelley (Frankestein)

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Amelia Bloomer

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Newspaper “The Lily”. Supporter of dress reforms.

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Simone de Beauvoir

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“The second sex”

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Alice Paul

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Established the “Congressional Union for Women Suffrage”. Drafted the equal rights amendment.

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Lucy Stone

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Retained her maiden name. Organized the Nationals Womens Rights Convention
Founded the Woman’s Journal

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Carrie Chapman

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President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
Led to the granting of the right to vote 1920

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Betty Friedan

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The Feminine Mystique author

Women’s strike for equality

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