Midterm

Question 1

Pariarchy

Answer 1

Any social system which is hierarchical in nature.

• patriarchy is associated with power and authority over those considered below-predominantly women.
• the hierarchy is maintained through economics and ideology and becomes self perpetuating.

Question 2

Agency

Answer 2

“the making of a choice”

Question 3

Sexism

Answer 3

Prejudice or discrimination on the basis of sex

Question 4

Sex

Answer 4

defined in opposition to gender. sex is based on biology

Question 5

Gender

Answer 5

based on the sexual difference btwn the sexes from the socio-cultural meanings attached to them.

Question 6

What is the unintentional or intentional expansion of the domain of medical jurisdiction?

Answer 6

Medicalization
Successful medicalization involves: individuals, groups, and cultural institutions viewing a domain or problem or condition or choice or life circumstance in medical terms.

Question 7

What is the science of bodily diseases or the symptoms of a disease?

Answer 7

Pathology

Question 8

Oppression is a marxist term but transformed by feminists to mean?

Answer 8

Term to the relationship between the sexes claiming that this form of oppression could be identified separately from that of class oppression.

Question 9

What is the idea that women gained knowledge from experience?

Answer 9

Consciousness-raising

US and 2nd wave feminism

Question 10

What are standardized and undifferentiated images of people belonging to a particular identifiable group?

Answer 10

Stereotype

Question 11

personal freedom, freedom of will means what?

Answer 11

Autonomy

Question 12

dualism

Answer 12

two-fold.
theory suggests that in any domain of reality there are two independent underlying principles.
ex. human/divine, good/evil, woman/man

Question 13

Hegemony in the oxford dictionary means leadership but feminists prefer to uses it to do what?

Answer 13

—theory of state and civil society
-feminists prefer Althusser’s=uses term to distinguish btwn state and cical society.
-the state=uses repressive and ideological ‘state apparatuses’ through which domination and consent are secured.
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Question 14

What is the study of the incidence and distribution of disease, and of their control and prevention?

Answer 14

Epidemiology

Question 15

collectives or groups that are reduced to the characteristics of individuals are considered?

Answer 15

Reductionist- particularly psychological or biological.

-often used btwn men and woman

Question 16

Double Blind

Answer 16

a dilemma

Question 17

Reproductive rights

Answer 17

• rights one has to reproduce

- encompasses not only what is possible but also what should be possible

Question 18

Shared system of beliefs accepted by a group to maintain social order and make sense out of their world around them is called?

Answer 18

Ideology

Question 19

What is the economic structure- means of production owned by a few private individuals whose goal is to make a profit?

Answer 19

Capitalism

Question 20

a system in which grades or classes of status or authority are ranked one above the other is called what?

Answer 20

Hierarchy

Question 21

Colonial

Answer 21

colonization that acquires and puts your own inhabitants there.

• done as part of a policy for economic exploitation
• larger power considers to be weak or ‘backward’ peoples

Question 22

Equity

Answer 22

• fairness

- equal access and/or equal health treatment

Question 23

equality

Answer 23

some feminists- see it as unfolding over time– a gradual process towards equal treatment
other feminists- equal tights of saming: or denying women their difference from men, inspiring to make women identical to men

Question 24

Misogyny

Answer 24

-fear or hatred of women
~Germaine Greer(1971)-‘women have very little idea how much men hate them’
~Dwokin(1981) and joan smith(1989)-believe its worse in western society

Question 25

Pallocentrism

Answer 25

patriarchal symbol is positioned in society as the primary signifier, privileging masculinity at the expense of femininity

Question 26

Reify

Answer 26

process by which the products of the subjective action of human beings come to appear as objective

Question 27

Job Ghetto

Answer 27

a segregated group or area-in this case employment

Question 28

Autogenesis

Answer 28

(of a disease) caused by medical examination or treatment

Question 29

Epistemology

Answer 29

how we know what we know

-feminist epistemology- way in which gender and gender politics of ‘knowing’ enter into knowledge production.

Question 30

Dichotomy

Answer 30

a division into two parts.

Binary classification