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Undergraduate 1
06/13/2013

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Term
Betty Friedan
Definition
1921-2006
Freelance writer
1966- N.O.W.
Second-wave of feminism: sex role challenging
Term
The Problem that has No Name
Definition
1963
"Occupation: housewife"
Term
The Happy Housewife Heroine
Definition
Childlike dependence
Women as a "pure image"
Term
Women's Liberation Activism
Definition
Classic dehumanization
Bra-burning myths
Term
Kitchen Debates
Definition
Used suburbia as a bulwark against communism/class conflict.
"American women.. do not have to be purposeful and hardworking"
Elaine Tyler Mays: nuclear family
Term
Elaine Tyler Mays
Definition
Homeward Bound
-Diversity: the ability to choose between brands.
-"A reassuring vision of the atomic age"
Term
Nuclear Family
Definition
Caused by the Communist scare (1950) and male backlash in WWII. (Nuclear numbing).
Heteronormative: parents and children only.
Powerful idea of "domesticity"
Homemaker role as patriotic.
Term
bell hooks
Definition
aka Gloria Watkins
Myth of "sisterhood" (gender focus), meaning that the movement was only for women.
Power structure in white feminist movement.
Restructure role of men (not emulate them)
Term
Lambda Delta Theta
Definition
Blackface vegas promotion video at UC Irvine
Term
DREAM Act
Definition
-Humanizing the other
-Documentary, The Dream is Now (2013)
-Memoir, My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomeyor (2013)
-Not yet passed on the federal level
--Has tech backing (want to keep skilled foreign workers)
-"Gang of 8"
Term
Affirmative Action
Definition
Under attack presently.
-Fisher vs. University of Texas
Term
Sonya Sotomayor
Definition
First Latina supreme court justice.
"Wise Latina woman": a statement Sotomayor made about how she brought new perspective and empathy to the court, caused controversy.
Hedge vs. Kentucky (2012)
Understanding trauma: poverty and family losses.
Term
Ruben Martinez
Definition
Strawberry Fields Forever
Crossing Over (2001)
Global economy profits off of illegal immigration.
Term
The Help
Definition
Film of hired African American maids.
Performative monstrosity of white woman's motherhood.
Labor exploitation.
Myth of women of color being "natural mothers"
-Romanticizing "the Mammy"
Skeeter: counter-hegemonic figure
Term
Abjection
Definition
revolt of a person against an internal and external menace.
Term
Lumumba-Zapatta Movement
Definition
1962-1972
Name which the student body at UCSD proposed for what is today Marshall College
Term
George Winne, Jr.
Definition
1947-1970
UCSD undergraduate, self-immolated himself in Revelle Plaza in protest of the Vietnam war.
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