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1
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Oedipus Complex

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A desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the opposite sex; leads to a choice of sexual partner who resembles one’s parent

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Thanatos

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Death drive

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Freud’s Major Theory

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Id (inner child), Ego (devil), Superego (angel) make up our personality and mind

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Lacan’s Major Theory

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The real, the imaginary, mirror stage

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First wave of feminism

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Right to vote

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Second wave of feminism

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Right to work, right to not get married, and right to an abortion

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Third wave of feminism

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“Can do” feminism; DIY

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Marxist/Socialist Feminism argues that to end oppression of women, we must end…

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Capitalism (class oppression

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Liberal Feminism insists on equality in the…

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Public sphere (education, pay, ending job segregation based on sex, better working conditions)

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Major Feminist Approaches to Literature include

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What role does the work play for women’s literary history/literary tradition

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Queer Theory utilizes _______________ theory covered in class

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Post structuralism

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LGBT studies is mostly closely aligned with what concept previously covered (think about postmodern belief)

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Metanarrative

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13
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In the video with Judith Butler what does a passerby ask out of the car window?

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Are you a lesbian?

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What is the main concept in Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble?

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Gender is taught/performed

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Postcolonialism is the study of

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Oppressed people yall

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The three stages of post colonialism includes

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  1. Awareness
  2. Political autonomy
  3. Hybridity
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17
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Diaspora

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Forced migration; a culture that is dispersed

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Hybridity

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Cross-cultural exchange

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Mimicry

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Act of passive resistance, not losing yourself in it

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20
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Unhomeliness

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Not at home

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21
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Eco criticism is the response to

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The urgent issues of today; ethics

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Eco criticism is how nature is

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Represented in literature

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23
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What is the definition of the uncanny?

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The familiar becoming unfamiliar & is scary

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24
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The sandman…

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Stabbing out eyes of naughty children

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How is the film Coraline a re-telling of the uncanny?

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When she falls asleep she finds a world of people with their eyes poked out and they are filled with sand; the family is like hers

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When Coraline opens the door, what does she find?

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The tunnel, she is “reborn” in the new world

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What does Coraline discover after several days of going through the door?

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They their eyes are filled with sand and they want to do the same to her

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28
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Can-do girls delay _________

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Motherhood

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29
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What does Harris say is at work in dividing girls between “can-do” and “at-risk”? The division is to monitor behavior in society

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Economic inequality/social inequality; poor girls are at risk and middle/upper class are can do

30
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Girlpower has become a

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Market

31
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How do Richards and Baumgardner define activism?

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Their activism is doing the little things; everyday feminism

32
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What are goals of the 3rd wave feminism? (The 3rd wave of feminism was a response to the perceived backlash of the second wave

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Bringing down the double standard; reproductive rights; access to healthcare

33
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The main argument in this video is that (killing me softly)

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The media specifically advertisements sexualize women since 1975

34
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What type of evidence is provided?

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Advertisements throughout magazines, websites, billboards; diverse advertisements

35
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What types of evidence are provided here? (virtuous cuts)

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Personal accounts from women who have had it done

36
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Patriarchy does not fully explain ________

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Why this practice persists

37
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What are the reasons women give for maintaining the practice of female circumcision?

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Cleanliness, beauty, culture

38
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Smith’s (toward a black feminist criticism) main argument is that tough feminism as a scholarly enterprise is more and more possible _______ ________ are being excluded

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Black women

39
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What types of readings are excluded in black feminist criticism and why?

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Queer readings

40
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(What is this thing called queer?)

Smith defines Queer as an __________ approach and LGBT an ____________ approach

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Confrontational or action (Queer)

Assimilation (LGBT)

41
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(capitalism and Gay Identity)

Some of the myths D’Emilio covers include

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Homosexual identity is not ahistorical; homosexual identity emerged in the 19th century; identity and practices are not the same thing

42
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Gay identity (not gay practice) emerged alongside what historical moment?

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Capitalism (WWII)

43
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Survival of LGBT individuals depends on social __________ that will _______ ________ __________

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Services

Provide personal autonomy

44
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(Trumpet)

A narratological approach to this novel might include attention to

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How each chapter has a unique narrator

45
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How does Millie describe her pictures in the newspaper?

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She doesn’t look like herself

46
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A psychoanalytic reading of Colman might include

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Stages of grief

47
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Reading Millie and Joss as a lesbian couple excludes what analysis?

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Their own definitions of themselves

48
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The man who fills out the death certificate fills out the certificate with what name and what sex?

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Joss Moody, female

49
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What might be at stake in the 1st person and 3rd person chapters

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1st person: you tell your story

3rd person: someone tells your story

50
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What does Sophie not recognize about herself in developing Joss’s narrative?

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She uses clothes to present the person she wants the world to see

51
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Ghost country and ghost story - what do you make of the “ghosts” in the novel?

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Narratives and countries are linked; these stories aren’t being told

52
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What might a Marxist analysis of Joss’ death include?

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His death is a means for profit (Sophie and the record company are profiting from it)

53
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(“Shooting an Elephant”) The narrator experiences guilt that he equates with

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Suffering of the oppressed

54
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The elephant’s foot does what to a mans body

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Rips his skin off

55
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When the elephant dies, what changes about the elephant? This could be a metaphor for what?

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The lines on his body change; metaphor for the British empire shrinking

56
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(“On Seeing England for the First Time”)

What phase of post colonialism is this?

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Hybridity

57
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(“On Seeing England for the First Time”)

What are some of the acts of conquering?

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Products, breakfast, dress, ribbon, school

58
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When Kincaid sees England for the first time, what does she see?

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That it is ugly (people, weather)

59
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(Harper High)

Everything we know about gangs

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Is wrong/throw out the window

60
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If you want to know who belongs to what gang

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Get out a map

61
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The one Neutron we hear about does what to remain neutral

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Stays inside at all costs; starts a Bible study

62
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Devonte’s mother tells him to

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Kill himself

63
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The homecoming dance is

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Not cancelled; safe

64
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Thomas is indicative of what statistic in Chicago?

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Eyewitness - 82% of all murder is public

65
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What is wrong with Crystal towards the end of the episode?

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Stress; lost her ability to cope or be positive

66
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The text/interpretations of the text are not about what the author intended, but rather:

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What the author did not intend; looking for the author’s unconscious/subconscious mind or thinking

67
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Why does the unnamed kid take two cookies?

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He is hungry; he didn’t have a home to eat breakfast at

68
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Restorative justice

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Repair harm and not punish

69
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Why did the teachers respond differently than students?

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The teachers did not live in the community (white) the students did live there (black)

70
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Thoreau and to the woods

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Love deliberately

71
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An ecological reading of “White Heron” might include

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Narrators experience with animals, why she is upset

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