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First wave of feminism - ANSWER - Late 18th century to the 1930s
- Education, political representation, suffrage
Second wave of feminism - ANSWER - 1960s to early 1980s
- Social and legal status of women, changes to existing patriarchal laws, improve representation in the media
Third wave of feminism - ANSWER - Late 1980s to present
- Feminist politics, discussing race, class, age, and ability in the analysis of oppression
Social constructivism - ANSWER A theoretical perspective that is contrary to naturalism/essentialism
Essentialism - ANSWER The view that gender is biologically determined
"Women and men are equal but different"
"The problem with no name" - ANSWER The feeling of anxiety, lack of control, unhappiness that women felt in the mid-20th century
Betty Friedan
BIDS - ANSWER Body image distortion syndrome
Postmodernism - ANSWER Theoretical perspective that is critical of liberal and Marxist views, something about how individuals are socially constructed
Discourse - ANSWER Ways of thinking, speaking, and doing within a system of meaningful signs
Discursive formations - ANSWER The regular, often unacknowledged, contribution of our everyday communication that gives signs their significance for a given community
Repressive hypothesis - ANSWER The idea that 19th century Europeans didn't talk about sex
Madonna/Wh0re dichotomy - ANSWER Term to highlight how women's' sexual desires are seen as extremes, either they are "pure" or "impure"
Institutional erasure - ANSWER Lack of infrastructure, policies, and best practices for treating trans people
Pinkwashing - ANSWER A cause-based marketing strategy
Tyranny of Cheerfulness - ANSWER Ubiquitous narrative that those battling breast cancer ought to positive
Formal equality - ANSWER The equality of persons under the law
Substantive equality - ANSWER The equality of persons in social settings
"The care deficit" - ANSWER The need for paid caretakers by Western women who have increasingly taken on paid work
Othering - ANSWER The process by which we recognize a person different from us as more than an object, but less than a fully-fledged subject
Dialectic - ANSWER Two or more people with two or more different perspectives coming together to understand the truth
Double conciousness - ANSWER Describes an individual whose identity is divided into several facets
The mythical norm - ANSWER Describes the idealized characteristics of society
(white, thin, young, heterosexual, Christian, financially secure)
Master/slave paradigm - ANSWER Relation where both parties need each other, but are not equal, the oppressor can only exist if there is an oppressed
Prejudice - ANSWER A preconceived judgment or opinion, usually based on limited information
Racism - ANSWER A system involving cultural messages, institutional policies, and practices that work to disadvantage certain groups while advantaging another
Active racism - ANSWER Blatant, intentional acts of racial bigotry and discrimination
Passive racism - ANSWER Less obvious forms of racial discrimination
- Access to some forms of privilege can affect access to other forms
- Access to some forms of privilege can serve as compensation for not having access to other forms
- Oppressed groups may be pitted against each other to draw attention away from systems reinforcing the privilege that harms them
Paradox of privilege - ANSWER How some want to see themselves as fair, and their lives filled with so much struggle and hard work, that they do not feel that privilege
Pop culture optimism - ANSWER View where the role that pop culture plays in social justice movements are overestimated
Pop culture pessimism - ANSWER View where there is a tendency to think that pop culture is one of the most insidious forces in the perpetuation of harmful stereotypes
Decentering feminism - ANSWER Removing the West from the center of feminism
Ethnocentrism - ANSWER Implicit assumption that one's ethnic group is superiour
Discursive colonialism - ANSWER Scholarship that reproduces unequal power relations
