gender studies terms Flashcards
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docile bodies
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Pliable object that becomes bound to the structures if disciplinary practices
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FGM
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- Female genital mutilation
- Procedure involving removal of external genitalia
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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
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gender norms
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- Ideas about how men and woman should be and act
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“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”
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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
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MIC
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medical industrial complex
* Network of interactions between pharamcy, health care etc to supply health care related products
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rape culture
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- Society blames the victims of sexual assault and normalize male sexual violence
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black feminist thought
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- Field of knowledge from the persepctive of a marginalized woman and their experiences
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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
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global feminism
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Feminism form around the world
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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
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§ Constructivism/essentialism
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- Essentialists says gender is decided at birth
- Constructivists say gender is socially constructed
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Liberal feminism
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Emphasizing womans right to autonomy and aid inequality
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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
- Individualism is the concerns of the person
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Postfeminism
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Describing that many feminism goals have already been achieves
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§ 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
- Understanding binary way of thinking
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Cookie-cutter/genderbread person
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- Gender is similar to that of cookie cutter
Shape and sixe can change over time
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“Queering”
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To interpret something from a persepective that rejects traditions categories of sexuality and gender
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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
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eugenics
* Set of beliefs that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population
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Negative rights & Positive rights
- * Limiting access
Gives access
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hetropatriarchy
Cis gender males have authority over other indivudals
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white fragility
Inability of some white people to accept harsh racial realities
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failed mothers
* Subject to mother blame- blaming mother for aby issue the child or family may have
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Eugenics post WW11
* Mississippi appendectomy- first trials of birth control forced on indian woman without informed knowledge
First tested on woman in mental assylum
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Dalkon shield
* 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
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indian act
Extermination of indians status as aborigonal people
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Billc31 (bill s-3)
* Eliminates discrimination
* Restores status and membership
Problems- second generation cut off rule
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genocide
Deliberate killing of a large number of people froma certain group, causing serious harm
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Cultural genocide
Deliberate killing of a large number of people froma certain group, causing serious harm
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May 2 axe early
* Activist for indigneous woman rights
First to have indian status restored after being married out
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menstruation
nstruation
* In residential schools menstruation was shamed and girls were punished
Vs in indigenous cultures this was celebrating creativity
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literary foil
* Relationship with the main character
But shows how different they are from main character
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neoliberalism
Ideas, policies and practices supporting free market capitalism
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chipko movement
Hugging trees woman
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WSS
Make movement spaces safe for woman
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social justice warriors
People who care about advancing social justice
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