Quiz 1 definitions

Question 1

Intersectionality

Answer 1

The study of intersections between dominance, oppression or discrimination
(Gender, sex, class, geological region)

Question 2

Ambiguity

Answer 2

The state of having multiple meanings, uncertainty in language, could be contradictory

Question 3

Ambivalence

Answer 3

The state of having contradictory or mixed feelings about something
-love & hate relationship

Question 4

Naturalization

Answer 4

To adopt something foreign into general use

-when a social arrangement comes to be seen as natural or biological

Question 5

Essentialism

Answer 5

The assumption that we have certain traits based on our sex

• ones ‘essence’
• stands for only 2 genders, women are weak, men strong

Question 6

liberal feminism

Answer 6

focuses on women’s ability to maintain their equality through their own actions and choices
-focuses on legal & political change

Question 7

structural oppression

Answer 7

oppression built into our system, we don’t go after individuals, we go after groups

Question 8

privilege

Answer 8

unearned benefits from being part of a certain group

Question 9

ideology

Answer 9

a persuasive belief system that structures our understanding of reality
-linked to naturalization

Question 10

socialist feminisim

Answer 10

links women’s liberation with overthrowing capitalism

-mainly transforming or getting rid of it

Question 11

radical feminism

Answer 11

maintains the idea that all oppression comes from the sex-gender system

Question 12

biological determinism

Answer 12

your biology determines who you are

Question 13

dichotomy

Answer 13

division into 2

-fundamentally different (like black & white)

Question 14

physiognomy

Answer 14

analyzing outside appearance, tells what kind of person you are
ex) slope of forehead could identify if you were a criminal or not

Question 15

phrenology

Answer 15

measurement of the human skull (not brain)