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Womens Studies 240 with Cole at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

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By: Alexis Gordon
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Feminist Frontiers
Created: 2010-04-21
Size: 41 flashcards
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Authenticity

how well people conform to hegemonic identity performance

The NEA Four

(National Endowment for the Arts) cut 4 performance grants from performers who happened to be gay/lesbian

Blackness

a dynamic and ever changing concept that is appropriating by blacks and whites

Mammy

Historical fiction figure that modeled intimacy between slaves and slave owners

One vs. Individual

One--realizes her significance and desires rights

Individual--representative of the whole race and not self

List some Impacts of art

Reaches people emotionally

Resists censorship

Can call culture into question

Danger and seduction of the mainstream

Global Sisterhood

women are treated as a homogeneous group (assumes universal oppression, etc)

Critiques of Global Sisterhood concept

challenged by women outside of US

ignores histories of colonialism and imperialism

assumes feminism will look the same everywhere

heterogeneity of contexts

Transnational Feminism

Alliances that are borderless (critiques first world feminist notion of global sisterhood)

Why do we prefer the term Transnational over International?

Indicates cooperation/connections

histories of colonialism/imperialism

simultaneity of race, class, gender, etc

International Feminism

Connections among and between nation-states

Madonna vs. whore

Madonna=forced prostitution

whore=voluntary prostitution

Imperialism

domination through less formal political arrangements

Colonialism

Domination through conquest (Created binaries civilized vs. uncivilized; progressive vs. backwards)

Third World Feminism

feminism for women of color (Mohanty)

What did Sochua Mu do?

Used global sisterhood concept to raise money in Cambodia but learned local customs

Explain "Saving brown women from brown men"

US feels the need to save the "victims" (women) of other countries from their men

Cambodia sex workers are examples of what?

Feminization of Poverty

How is Battered Woman Syndrome a flawed model?

we need to understand each unique experience of defendants

Violence Against Women Act

Mandatory arrest, "no drop" policies, batterer intervention programs

What themes lead to violence?

Our ideal man= a warrior

Separate spheres ideology

boys and girls are separated from early age

Male achievements > Female achievements

Diagnostic Bracket Creep

Diagnosis of illnesses spreads out to more ambiguous categories

Momism

Fear that moms had become too empowered (post war) and were responsible for male emasculation

What 4 questions should we ask (according to Boyd) about health and women?

What do I NOT know?

Why should I worry?

Who is being held responsible for the problem?

Are women being treated like a homogeneous (not heterogeneous) group?

Statistical Discrimination

Employers of low skilled black women assume they are single mothers (thus unreliable) so they discriminate

Maternal Wall

mothers face discrimination because of dedication to family

Sticky Floor

3 step ladder that many jobs of women tend to have (hard to get higher)

Concrete Wall

Daily racism, being held to higher standards, being invisible to workplace, excluded

Body Labor

Physical labor of attending to the appearance of others, emotional labor to manage feelings, variation in performance of bad labor

Emotional Labor

requires one to induce or suppress feeling in order to sustain what the customers want to see

Feminization of Occupation

changing from male dominated to female dominated occupations (e.g. clerical work)

Index of Dissimilarity

most common way to measure sex segregation

Which theory suggests sex segregation is due to choosing appropriate jobs based on how we've learned gender?

Socialization theory

Which theory suggests sex segregation is due to assuming women placing family over work and thus not being reliable employees?

Human Capital Theory

Which theory suggests sex segregation is due to assuming features of work can create behaviors (the job chooses gender)

Structural Theory

Which theory suggests sex segregation is due to social pressures that are encountered before/during employment (sexual orientation being questioned, etc)?

Social Control theory

Wealth is to social class as ....what?

Sex is to gender

Coalition Building

Political intersectionality--people have the opportunity to work together, not because they're similar but because they have similar interests

List the Master's Tools(4)

Media Representation of feminists

Gender Schemas

Focus on Individuals

Divide and Conquer (feminism leaves out poor women)

List the New Tools (5)

Gender Analysis

Intersectionality

Pivoting the Center

Agency within Constraint

Activism

Enlightened Sexism

Modern form of prejudice (especially in mass media)

About this deck

By: Alexis Gordon
Textbook:

Feminist Frontiers
Created: 2010-04-21
Size: 41 flashcards
Views: 73

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