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WMST 1000 Final Exam With
Correct Answers
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"
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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

  1. Access to some forms of privilege can affect access to other forms
  2. Access to some forms of privilege can serve as compensation for not having access to other forms
  3. 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