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MIDTERMS Flashcards

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it refers to the rules provided by an external source

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ethics

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refers to an individual’s own principles regarding right and wrong

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morals

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often thought of as a time when society and its rulers were rigid and strict

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victorian era

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based on principles or standard of moral conduct including practicing sexual restraint, zero acceptance of criminal activity and a stern demeanor

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victorian morality

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begins around the late 17th and 18th centuries, during enlightenment in europe

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modern feminism

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heavily influenced by Rousseau and french political thinkers

saw lack of focus in educating women as making them appear less informed as men in society
individuals should have separate rights from teaching of church

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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education should be the foundation of social order that included equality for women

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792
Maria
Wrongs of Women, 1798

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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wealthy boys go to grammar schools while wealthy girls attend school to learn music, embroidery

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First Tsunami Wave of Feminism

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woman are more than just wives and caretakers

they were to educate children and be companion to their husbands and not slaves

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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her book The Second Sex was one of the first inspirations to the activist of the Women’s Liberation Movement

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Simone de Beauvoir

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she believed that socialist development and class struggle were needed to solve society’s problems, not a women’s movement

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Simone de Beauvoir

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13
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motherhood is a way of turning women into slaves

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Simone de Beauvoir

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the work of feminism was to transform society and women’s place in it

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Simone de Beauvoir

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males are infused with issues of power and women are under subjugation

males are dominant
females are passive

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Kate Millet

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16
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begins with an analysis of the ubiquity of patriarchy and shows how it permeates every aspect of society

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sexual politics

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when people of a particular race, ethnicity, gender, or religion form alliances and organize politically to defend their group’s interest

feminist movement
civil rights movement
gay liberation movement

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identity politics

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centered on the idea that activism involves groups turning inward and stressing separatism, strong collective identities and political goals focused on psychological and personal self esteem

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identity politics according to Jeffrey Escofier

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they led the third wave of feminism

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Generation Xers

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sought to question, reclaim and redefine ideas, words, and media that have transmitted ideas about womanhood, gender, beauty, sexuality etc

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third-wave feminists

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most important thing women can do is work, they can become independent

women could not be truly liberated until the system of patriarchal society itself was overthrown

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Simone de Beauvoir

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1920s and 1960s-1980s

departure from monogamy to casual sex
contraception, nudity, normalization of premarital sex

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sexual revolution

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father of modern sexual revolution

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Alfred Kinsey

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the only abnormal sex is no sex

morality is a human construct that impedes progress

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Alfred Kinsey

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exposed darkness out of Kinsey’s ideologies because it led to abuse of children

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Judith Reisman

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a magazine that targeted males between 21 and 45

Marilyn Monroe, a rising sex symbol

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The Playboy Culture (Hugh Hefner)

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this movement was able to develop lesbian feminism, freedom from heterosexual act and freedom from reproduction

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industrial development

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a struggle for social justice for blacks to gain equal rights

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civil rights movement

29
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a series of spontaneous violent demonstrations by members of lgbtq against police raid

stone wall in
greenwich village, manhattan, nyc

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the stonewall riots

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human nature is an innate and natural essence

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biological essentialism

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sex hormone present more in males

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testosterone

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there are certain universal, biologically or psychologically based features that are at the root of observed differences in the behavior of women

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gender essentialism

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evaluation of individuals and cultures based on male perspectives

male centered worldview
men as representatives of the human condition
unacknowledged form of sexim

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androcentrism

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assumption that male view is the norm

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androcentric bias

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dominant or exclusive focus on women

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gynocentrism

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reaction against the intellectual assumptions and values of the modern period in the history of western philosophy

tries to escape or reject the traditional function of the human mind

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postmodernism

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there would be dissolution of male and female categories

conceptualization of trans people would call for the new social structures

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gender postmodernism

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you are against the unnatural change of what postmodernism seeks to

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anti postmodernism

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men and women should be equal politically, economically and socially

calling for a replacement if the presiding patriarchal order with a system that emphasizes equal rights, justice, fairness

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feminist theory

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attempts to explain how gender is acquired
our social interactions are based on how we interpret the world around us

interpretations = subjective meanings

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symbolic interactionism

herbert blumer

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process of learning how to behave as boy or girl

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gender socialization

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taught through mass media

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gender concepts

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origins from lesbian and gay studies and feminist theory

there is no set normal, only changing norms that people may or may not fit into

disrupt binaries in hopes that this will destroy difference as well a inequality

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queer theory

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make heterosexuality the only coherent , and as a privilege

promotes heterosexuality as the normal or preferred orientation

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heteronormativity

45
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society is structured by relations of power and domination among social groups that determine access to scarce resources

dominant group exploits subordinate groups

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critical sociology

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society as a complex system whose parts work together

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structural functionalism

47
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society as organs that works toward proper functioning of the body

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herbert spencer

48
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under this is the conflict theory which says that inequality exists in all societies and leads to social change

scarcity in resources often lead to the privilege to exploit their power

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classical theory

49
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capitalism propagates gender inequality
political and legal power are not enough to end gender inequality
women are shaped class exploitation and gender oppression

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neomarxist theory

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