Looking at how something exists because we say it exists and all the social and cultural things that brought it into existence

How we think it is appropriate to behave because of our interactions

Impulses are channeled into socially appropriate standards (molded by society ex: heterosexual and monogamous, same age and race)

Impulses are channeled into socially appropriate standards (molded by society ex: heterosexual and monogamous, same age and race)

Homophobia is fear or men or other men so hetro men are feared as being viewed as unmasculine so they have to reject women and gay men cause gay men are weak and like women and may have no feelings towards lesbians and its about a threat to their own manhood

men of color of all classes, working class of all races

Shows men do not benefit from patriarchy equally but they do all benefit in some way

More covered up ex: how whites have courses about African Americans (hypersexual images of African Americans in MTV videos to mainly white people who buy the music)

Not all feminists are against it some don’t want it eradicated because of censorship, some think we should just change the images of women, some think its healthy, some want it to get rid of it all together

 Set of practices that seeks to blame victims of misfortune for their misfortune

Ex: Rape what was she wearing, why was she drinking….

Keeps the status quo in tact

What is problematic about purity balls?

- Conflates virginity with self worth

- Paternal attention to sexuality

- They’re positioning girls as sexual before they’ve hit puberty

What is sexualization in the media?

What is the Lolita Effect?

When the media only shows that the attractive quality is being young

Ex: Vaginal Rejuvenation surgery 

How is the rape myth racialized?

Rape Myth has to do with how it is her fault like she wanted it, what was she wearing etc

Racialized because it has to due with what race is already assumed as the pure race so if women of color are already seen as sexual then it is not a problem to rape them

What does Valenti mean when she talks about “Femiphobia”?

Fear of the famine, fear of being like a woman

What is reproductive politics? What does it cover?

- Contraception

- Abortion

 - Race and Sterilization

- Class and Adoption

- Women and Sexuality 

What factors affect a woman’s reproductive rights?

- A girl’s age

- A girl’s race

- A girl’s class- is she rich, poor, and middle class

- The historical moment in which it occurs

What are the social problems approach to dealing with women’s reproduction?

The number of children a woman has is about serving a social purpose outside of her and not in her best interest 

How was the U.S. “racialized” through anti-miscegenation laws?

Miscegenation means the mixing of races so the law would be against interracial relationships/intimacy

The purpose was to keep races distinct ex: keeping the purity of the white race