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Exam 1 Flashcards

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What is a first wave feminist?

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‘liberal feminists’

focused on legal issues, primarily women’s rights to vote, inheritance, custody)

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What is the marxist feminist?

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focuses on women’s oppression and exploitation under capitalism

e.g. free labour in the home is essential to capitalism

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what is radical feminism?

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attempts to dismantle systems of power and patriarchy that oppress women

“women are considered weaker sex”

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what is cultural feminism?

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places value back into the characteristics that are considered feminine.

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what is the second wave of feminism?

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focuses on issues of equality and discrimination

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what is socialist feminist?

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looked at sexual harassment within the workplace, unequal pay, and feminine jobs being paid less than masculine jobs

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What is the 3rd wave of feminism?

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  • white feminism
  • post modern feminism

“exclusive club”

  • focuses on reproductive rights for women
  • how language is used to control us (male/ female, black /white)
  • analyzes social norms and cultural laws that we operate by
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what is standpoint feminists?

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white feminists realized that what feminism wasn’t doing was listening to. how people actually lived, how it was affecting people within their everyday lives

e.g. how inequalities are lived

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what is the 4th wave of feminism

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  • transnational feminism
  • many different cultures / no common culture
  • no sisterhood
  • abolishes the idea that all women have something in common
  • big differences between women in the west and women in the rest of the world
  • looks at the idea of privilege
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what is discursive colonization?

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3rd world women prop up the west

economic giants exploit 3rd world women

especially poor/ under privileged/ under educated women in 3rd world countries

props up pathology of 3rd world person

makes the west think that we deserve to have the privileges that we enjoy

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What was the Audre Lorde reading about?

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racial division between white women and coloured women

  • guilt white women feel
  • guilt comes from the fear of not knowing how to stand up to racism
  • anger can be a tool to move forward / anger can be productive
  • alternative understanding of anger Is provided
  • stresses that its important not to remain silent
  • even though it can mean being ostracized, outnumbered, and go against the grain of other peoples beliefs
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what is the social construction of gender?

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  • how we embody our gender expression
  • many codes from body
  • the gestures we think are subtle actually have a large impact
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What is “the other” and “the subject”

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concept of Simove de Bouvouir talked about in Judith Butlers article

  • men are the subject, and women are the other
  • one needs to define itself by the other
  • the other exists because of the subject, but the subject cannot exist without the other
  • man defines a woman not as herself, but as relative to him
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What is the one sex model

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  • Concept of Nelly Oudshoorn’s work
  • women are seen as a man turned inside himself
  • women doesn’t get her own category

-the only thing different that was looked at is the uterus

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what Is the different sex model?

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  • everything is different compared to male bodies
  • hair, blood cells,
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What are some ways that we can make things more accessible for disabled people?

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  • crosswalks that announce when to wait and when to walk for visually impaired
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what is performativity of body?

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repetitive mundane acts that end up teaching our brains that its a natural way of being

  • not conscious
  • taught in childhood / early adolescence
  • performing gender through scripts/roles
  • by performing mundane acts we are producing a gender
18
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Main point of Judith butters theory of gender

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its not what you are its what you do

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What are cultural genitals?

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  • the genitals that you want people to think that you have.
  • your performance of gender supersedes the genitals you possess
  • e.g. trans / intersex people
  • e.g. Nina Arsenault
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What are identity politics?

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a tendency for people of a particular religion, race, social background, etc., to form exclusive political alliances, moving away from traditional broad-based party politics.

21
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What are some examples of identity politics?

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  • Emmett Till by Dana Schultz

-1950’s population registration acts
(4 categories)
white, black, colour, Indian

22
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What is an honorary white?

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granting rites and privileges to non-white people who would travel from outside of the country.

  • their race was ignored
  • given run of the white world
  • one condition = they could not dance at night clubs
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what was a test to determine race?

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something that came out of the 1950’s population registration act

  • pencil test (sticking a pencil in a persons hair)
  • checking physicality - their butt, their shape
  • getting people to speak
  • would check for a blue spot on the sacrum of babies of un-married mothers who could not produce identity card of child
  • determined by civil servants (no qualifications)
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What was the 1950’s population registration act?

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  • race was destiny = effected jobs, public access, pension
  • suffering
  • white meant being and having everything

-South Africa

  • 4 categories (white, black, colour, Indian)
25
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What is a Blood Quantum?

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an uncontroversial measure of how much Indian blood someone possessed

  • certifiable degree of Indian blood
  • calculated by tribal documents
  • wanted to diminish Indian community
26
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What is intersectionality?

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multiple systems of oppression

critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability and age operate together to create oppression.

27
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what are 5 things that mark intersectionality?

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1)Community organizing as a foundational to political engagement of oppressed groups

2)The centrality of identity politics to empower African American women and similarly subordinate groups

3)Coalition politics as essential for working across differences of race, class, gender and sexuality.

4)Interlocking oppressions of race, class, and gender as a structural frame for understanding multiple social inequalities.

5)An ethos of social justice as fundamental to understanding and challenging social inequality.

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