Midterm Flashcards
Pariarchy
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.
Agency
“the making of a choice”
Sexism
Prejudice or discrimination on the basis of sex
Sex
defined in opposition to gender. sex is based on biology
Gender
based on the sexual difference btwn the sexes from the socio-cultural meanings attached to them.
What is the unintentional or intentional expansion of the domain of medical jurisdiction?
Medicalization
Successful medicalization involves: individuals, groups, and cultural institutions viewing a domain or problem or condition or choice or life circumstance in medical terms.
What is the science of bodily diseases or the symptoms of a disease?
Pathology
Oppression is a marxist term but transformed by feminists to mean?
Term to the relationship between the sexes claiming that this form of oppression could be identified separately from that of class oppression.
What is the idea that women gained knowledge from experience?
Consciousness-raising
US and 2nd wave feminism
What are standardized and undifferentiated images of people belonging to a particular identifiable group?
Stereotype
personal freedom, freedom of will means what?
Autonomy
dualism
two-fold.
theory suggests that in any domain of reality there are two independent underlying principles.
ex. human/divine, good/evil, woman/man
Hegemony in the oxford dictionary means leadership but feminists prefer to uses it to do what?
—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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What is the study of the incidence and distribution of disease, and of their control and prevention?
Epidemiology
collectives or groups that are reduced to the characteristics of individuals are considered?
Reductionist- particularly psychological or biological.
-often used btwn men and woman
Double Blind
a dilemma
Reproductive rights
- rights one has to reproduce
- encompasses not only what is possible but also what should be possible
Shared system of beliefs accepted by a group to maintain social order and make sense out of their world around them is called?
Ideology
What is the economic structure- means of production owned by a few private individuals whose goal is to make a profit?
Capitalism
a system in which grades or classes of status or authority are ranked one above the other is called what?
Hierarchy
Colonial
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
Equity
- fairness
- equal access and/or equal health treatment
equality
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
Misogyny
-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
Pallocentrism
patriarchal symbol is positioned in society as the primary signifier, privileging masculinity at the expense of femininity
Reify
process by which the products of the subjective action of human beings come to appear as objective
Job Ghetto
a segregated group or area-in this case employment
Autogenesis
(of a disease) caused by medical examination or treatment
Epistemology
how we know what we know
-feminist epistemology- way in which gender and gender politics of ‘knowing’ enter into knowledge production.
Dichotomy
a division into two parts.
Binary classification
