Chapter 6 Lecture Flashcards
What happens when we place people in a hierarchy?
Results in power imbalances and reduced social status for some groups.
When was cheerleading considered an all male sport?
The mid 1800s. It was equivalent in prestige to football- a great responsibility and high honour and too masculine for women.
When were women first allowed to join cheerleading?
In world war 1 when many men went off to war. Thought to be temporary, unnatural, and inappropriate.
When did cheerleaders become primarily female?
By the 60s and 70s.
What happened to the prestige of cheerleading after it became feminine?
Declined- the sport (activity) now became less about leadership and more about support and sexiness.
What is the patriarchy?
The rule of the father; control of female and younger male family members by select adult men. Own property, bodies of wives and children, and finances. The patriarchs word as law.
What was patriarchal power like in our history?
Men alone had legal, civil, and free rights. Can choose to represent the interests of their wives and children.
What is the democratic brotherhood?
Replacement for the patriarchy- distribution of citizenship rights to elite classes of men. Poor men, men of colour, indigenous men all joined this. Women fought to receive rights of personhood.
What is the patriarchy like now?
You no longer need to be male to count as a full citizen, however men also continue to be the generic human with women as deviations.
What is the idea of formal gender equality?
Requirement that laws treat men and women as equal citizens. Most western countries are based off of this.
What is the modified patriarchy?
Men’s identity as men is often invisible, whereas women’s is central to their being (Men are people, women are women, men are normal and unmodified, women are modified and not normal)
What is sexism?
The favouring of male-bodied over female-bodied individuals.
What is androcentrism?
Prejudice favouring whatever is seen as masculine compared to what is seen as feminine.
What is subordination?
Placing of women into positions that make them subservient or dependent on men.
What is gender a metaphor for?
Power
What did a study find when reviewing 200 nonanimated films?
17% of these films were headlined by women without a male co-lead. Male characters received 2x as much screentime and more than 2x as many lines.
What are the 3 criterion of the Bechdel test?
1) Has to have at least 2 women with names in it
2) The women have to talk to each other
3) They have to talk to each other about something other than a man
How do parents feel if they see their boy has a feminine side?
Negatively (reflects androcentrism). Push boys away from femininity due to a belief that it is indicative of something being wrong or inappropriate.
How do parents who are tolerant of gender deviance look at boys with a feminine side?
Seek to protect them from social disapproval.
Which groups are more supportive of cross-gender play?
Younger people and women
What does avoiding femininity serve in society?
Emphasizes the rule that being a girl is worse than being a boy or a man. Slurs related to homosexuality also connote the same thing.
What is a form of gender policing?
Accusations of homosexuality
What is male flight?
Phenomena in which men abandon the feminizing areas of their lives. Will also flee valuable areas like education.
What is hegemony?
State of collective consent to inequality secured by the idea that it is inevitable, natural, or desirable. Widespread consent to relations of systemic social disadvantage.
