gender studies terms

Question 1

docile bodies

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Pliable object that becomes bound to the structures if disciplinary practices

Question 2

FGM

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• Female genital mutilation
  
  • Procedure involving removal of external genitalia

Question 3

intersex surgery

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• Making their genitals match the sed they were assigned at birth
  
  • Or removing anatomy that doesn’t match assigned sex

Question 4

gender norms

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• Ideas about how men and woman should be and act

Question 5

“Third-world women” vs. “first-world women”

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• First world are mostly focused on equality with men
  
  • Third world would be more prostitutions and “body politics”

Question 6

compulsory heterosexuality

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• Heterosexuality is assumed and enforced by having a patriarchial and heteronormative society

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gendered blood

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• Suppress images of mestruations

Question 8

MIC

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medical industrial complex
* Network of interactions between pharamcy, health care etc to supply health care related products

Question 9

rape culture

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• Society blames the victims of sexual assault and normalize male sexual violence

Question 10

black feminist thought

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• Field of knowledge from the persepctive of a marginalized woman and their experiences

Question 11

Beast idols/flower boy

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• Kpop
  
  • Kpop guys are hot and can be seen in 2 different ways
  • Flower boy- cutesy
  • Beast idols- gangster

Question 12

global feminism

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Feminism form around the world

Question 13

Sex vs. gender

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• Sex is biological
  Gender is socially constructed

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Equality vs equity

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• Equality is everyone given the same opportunities
  
  • Equity is everyone has different circumstances and helps to gain an equal outcome

Question 15

§ Constructivism/essentialism

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• Essentialists says gender is decided at birth
  
  • Constructivists say gender is socially constructed

Question 16

Liberal feminism

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Emphasizing womans right to autonomy and aid inequality

Question 17

Individualism vs. collectivism

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• Collectivism is the importance of community
  ○ Social obligations?
  
  • Individualism is the concerns of the person
    Womans body, a woman right

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Postfeminism

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Describing that many feminism goals have already been achieves

Question 19

§ Two-spirit identities

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• Native american
  
  • Sometimes intersex
  • Both gender traits
  • Neither rlly men or woman

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Heterosexual matrix

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• Grid of invisible norms
  
  • Understanding binary way of thinking
    Judith buttler

Question 21

Cookie-cutter/genderbread person

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• Gender is similar to that of cookie cutter
  Shape and sixe can change over time

Question 22

“Queering”

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To interpret something from a persepective that rejects traditions categories of sexuality and gender

Question 23

Culture jamming

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• Disrupts social norms
  Used as a tool for social change

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reproductive justice movement

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• Demands sexual autonomy and gender freedom for every human being
  
  • Well being of women based on the protection of womans hum an rights
  • Right to have, not have and parent in a safe enviroment

Question 25

eugenics

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• Set of beliefs that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population

Question 26

Negative rights & Positive rights

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• • Limiting access
    Gives access

Question 27

hetropatriarchy

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Cis gender males have authority over other indivudals

Question 28

white fragility

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Inability of some white people to accept harsh racial realities

Question 29

failed mothers

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• Subject to mother blame- blaming mother for aby issue the child or family may have

Question 30

Eugenics post WW11

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• Mississippi appendectomy- first trials of birth control forced on indian woman without informed knowledge
  First tested on woman in mental assylum

Question 31

Dalkon shield

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• Form of iud that was absolutly not sterile
  
  • Same applicator per 10 shields
  • Woman lost the ability to have kids
    Pulled off the market but then basically sold to coutries that didn’t have english as first language

Question 32

indian act

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Extermination of indians status as aborigonal people

Question 33

Billc31 (bill s-3)

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• Eliminates discrimination
  
  • Restores status and membership
    Problems- second generation cut off rule

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genocide

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Deliberate killing of a large number of people froma certain group, causing serious harm

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Cultural genocide

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Deliberate killing of a large number of people froma certain group, causing serious harm

Question 36

May 2 axe early

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• Activist for indigneous woman rights
  First to have indian status restored after being married out

Question 37

menstruation

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nstruation
* In residential schools menstruation was shamed and girls were punished
Vs in indigenous cultures this was celebrating creativity

Question 38

literary foil

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• Relationship with the main character
  But shows how different they are from main character

Question 39

neoliberalism

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Ideas, policies and practices supporting free market capitalism

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chipko movement

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Hugging trees woman

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WSS

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Make movement spaces safe for woman

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social justice warriors

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People who care about advancing social justice