WGS Midterm
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- symbolic significance of food and fat
- food=power fat=gross, nasty, undesirable
- functional education
- home ec, preparation for housewifery
- The Social Construction of Gender (author?)
- by Judith Lorber
- doing gender
- The Social Construction of Gender by Judith Lorber
- Gender as a process
- reates social differences between men and women, changes over time. Learned.
- Gender as stratification
- for men and women in the same race and class, men are ranked above women. Defines things as masculine or feminine, “great†and “good.†Assigns a cultural status and value to thing/people.
- Sex vs gender
- -Sex: physical genetalia, hormones -Gender: how someone acts (basically everything else)
- Denials of Inequality (author?)
- by Rhode
- “Where women feel powerless to avoid inequality, they are likely to avoid acknowledging itâ€
- Denials of Inequality by Rhode
- If Men Could Menstrate (author?)
- Steinem
- Symbolic Order
- a culture’s package of imagery, ideology, stereotypes, and assumptions that defies common sense
- Oppression (author?)
- Frye
- Double Bind
- Can't win either way (Oppression by Frye)
- Feminism is for everybody (author?)
- Bell Hooks
- The problem that has no name
- depression of housewives
- Self-actualization
- the idea that people want to further improve their intellects and themselves. Missing in housewives, nothing to fill their void.
- the feminine mystique
- cultural idea of what women of that time should be (happy housewife)
- sexual sell
- factories that had been producing products for the war switched over to household products that would attract housewives. Huge market in women, advertising aimed at them.
- sex-directed education
- focus on “adjustment,†the idea that education was supposed to adjust women to the life that they would live. Preparation for housewifery. Home Ec.
- the forfeited self
- (from feminine mystique... ????)
- Intersectionality/Interlocking Oppression
- people experience intersectionality—everyone’s identity is at the intersection of multiple categories. (You can be black and a woman, or gay and Latino).
- Toward a New Vision (author?)
- by Collins
- 3 dimensions of oppression
- institutional, symbolic, individual
- institutional oppression
- (patriarchy) laws, systematic relationship of domination and subordinate structure through social institutions
- symbolic oppression
- (masculinity) stereotypes, not direct, categorizes people, symbolic order, icons
- individual oppression
- (men) personal discrimination
- Invisible systems versus individual acts of meanness
- invisible systems are racism outside the realm of the individual (symbolic and institutional oppression)
- White Privilege (author?)
- by McIntosh
- White Privilege
- Unearned superiority; Advantages gained from other (colored) people’s disadvantages.
- Meritocracy
- The system of success based on merits. (“recognizing privilege is hard because you give up the illusion of meritocracy.â€)
- The Beauty Myth (author?)
- by Naomi Wolf
- Concepts of the Beauty Myth
- -Women are encouraged to spend lots of time, money, and energy on their physical appearance (when their time, money, and energy could be better spent elsewhere). -The particular beauty standards to which women are held are debilitating and damaging -These beauty standards are not natural or biologically based -Beauty standards are culturally structures. These beauty standards aren’t actually about appearance, they’re about behavior. Promotes female powerlessness (foot binding in china, corsets, etc)
- Hunger (author?)
- Naomi Wolf
- The one-stone solution
- idea that losing just “one stone†(14 lbs in British measurements) would make you perfect.
- The Body Politic (author?)
- by Abra Chernik
- Rules of Masculinity
- 1) No sissy stuff 2) Be a sturdy oak 3) be a big wheel 4) give them hell
- Patriarchy
- manifestation and institutionalism of male dominance, originating in family then extending into society. Men hold power in all institutions; women are denied free access to this power. Patriarchy doesn’t imply that women are completely deprived of rights, but they’re deprived of free access to power
- Supremacy Crime (author?)
- Steinem
- the majority of hate crimes are done by what kind of people?
- Young, white, wealthy boys (who have bullied)
- A Day Without Feminism (author?)
- by Baumgardner and Richards
- The Master's tools will never dismantle the master's house (author?)
- This Bridge Called My Back, by Audra Lorde
- Men, Masculinity, and the Rape Culture (author?)
- by Michael Kimmel