Exsam 2 Flashcards
Co-education
Educating men and women together
Hidden curriculum
Informal information taught about students place in society, messages students receive about race, class, and gender implicit in the way information is transmitted to students, material not covered, and in classroom dynamics
Sexual harassment
Unwanted sexual joking, teasing, or through propositions for sexual acts; or creating a hostile environment for someone given their gender or sexual orientation
Title IX
Requiring equal funding for girls and boys sports
Gender policing
Making sure no one violates the rules of masculinity (or femininely)
Hazing
Initiation rituals that involve violence, coercion, illegal activity, excessive alcohol consumption, or being forced to perform humiliating acts in order to be accepted into an organisation or social group
Separate but equal
Idea that it is okay to provide separate facilities for girls and boys as long as they have comparable resources
Brown versus Board of Education
1954 Supreme Court decision declaring “separate but equal” unconstitutional
Monotheism
Belief in one god
Polytheism
Belief in multiple gods
Goddess traditions
Worship of female deities
Chador
Dark, traditional garment worn in public by Muslim women that covers almost all the head and body
Hijab
Veil worn in Muslim society
Ritual purification
Cleansing in a ritual bath following mensturuation that makes orthodox Jewish women clean so they may rejoin social life
Celibacy
Refraining from sexual activity