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| the distance your'e willing to leave between yourself and a stigmatized group |
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| assigning sexual stereotypes to different races and ethnicities in order to further otherize social groups |
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| a spectrum on which all female identified women (regardless of sexual orientation) are identified with lesbianism based on their encounters with other women |
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| living, breathing, acting, and professing lesbianism TO THE WORLD |
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| heterosexual relationships are fundamental and natural in society; everything else is weird. |
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women marrying women
women pretending to men and marrying women |
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| the array of actions deemed sexual among lesbians |
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| widen the boundaries of what we consider queer so that intersecting oppressions between different social groups can all be included in queer politics |
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old ideas of racism evolved from previous racial oppression. they still exist, and are supported by
Capitalism
Political Structure
Media |
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| making healthy people believe that they are ill, and making slightly ill people believe that they are significantly ill to capitalize on medicating the fabricated disease |
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| phenomena with potential to partially disrupt gender norms, but without provoking actual change |
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| compulsory heterosexuality |
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| our society is patriarchal, so everything is involved with making men happy. we assume that everybody's straight until they tell you otherwise; we assume that we're straight until we realize we're not |
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| The act of imagining one's physical appearance |
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| Kimberly Springer: Being the Bridge |
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Role conflict between black woman and feminist.
Saw them as the same struggle
Tokenism = being the sole representative of one minority |
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| Being comfortable in one's body, feeling like your body is connected to you |
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Peggy McIntosh
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack |
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| Those with privilege are taught that they are the norm; they can make the decision whether or not to focus on issues of privilege |
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Pamela Aronson
Feminists or "Postfeminists?" Young Women's Attitudes Towards Feminism |
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Four components of gender consciousness:
1) Identification
2) Discontent
3) Assessment of legitimacy
4) Collective Orientation
Women are reluctant to identify behavior as discriminatory |
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Baumgardner and Richards:
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future |
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1) A Day Without Feminism
2) A Day With Feminism |
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| Michael Kimmel: What Are Little Boys Made Of |
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Feminists imagine and demand that men can do better. Offers the possibility of a new boyhood and a new masculinity based on justice and equality.
Testosterone |
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- Protection Racket = women search for protection from nice, chivalrous men from mean men
- Ornamental Masculinity = False sense of identity supported by materialism
- Men feel betrayed: economically, paternally, ornamental imprisonment
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| Audre Lord: The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House |
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Impossible to change women's ideals to make room for all kinds of women with current ideologies.
Important to see personal as political struggles of gender, racial, sexual, class |
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Zinn and Dill:
Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism |
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Matrix of Domination = the experience of class, gender, race, and sexuality vary depending on experience in other categories
Experiences are connected, but not hierarchical |
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Bell Hooks:
Men: Comrades in Struggle |
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We need men in order to make a difference in our American culture as it regards women's
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| Kate Bornstein: Gender Outlaw |
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| Gender is a class system; needs to be eliminated in order to destroy patriarchy and inequality |
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| Mona Harrington: Care and Equality |
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Men and women don't start at equal playing field. For women to get a higher position is difficult; they have much more to fight even if they have the same qualifications
The family friendly approach doesn't work; the workplace needs to be restructured to honor family time |
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| Allan Johnson: The Gender Knot |
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Patriarchy = the degree to which society promotes male privilege
Roots of Patriarchy:
- Male centeredness (focus)
- Male dominance (authority)
- Male identification (masculinity=good in society)
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Anne Fausto-Sterling
The Five Sexes |
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| There are at least 5 sexes, if not more, although the western legal and medical world only wants to acknowledge there are two |
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Bose and Whaley:
Sex Segregation in the US Labor Force |
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- Pink collar jobs
- Human capital theory = characteristics or skills that make a worker more attractive to an employer
- structural theory = features of work create behaviors, people don't shape occupational characteristics
- occupational segregation = short career ladder, fewer possibilities for upward mobility
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Gwendolyn Mink:
The Lady and the Tramp (II) |
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Welfare is a women's issues
Welfare is a right, not an entitlement |
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Eileen Boris:
Living Wage as a Women's Issue |
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| Women would benefit most from a living wage because they're already underpaid |
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Denise Segura:
Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexicana Immigrant Mothers and Employment |
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Mexicanas: Work with motherhood
Chicanas: Separate work from motherhood; would rather be a mother than an employee |
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Gimlin:
Cosmetic Surgery: Paying for your Beauty |
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Compares plastic surgery to aerobics, using drugs, or having an eating disorders; a way to feel more powerful
The body is a symbol of selfhood, but shaped by material consumerism |
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Weil Davis:
Loose Lips Sink Ships |
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| we need to learn to love what real women look like; Labia plasties |
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| Kudlick: The Blind Man's Harley: White Canes and Gender Identity in America |
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Kudlick realizes that she can still be feminine while expressing masculine traits
She doesn't want to be the "helpless blind girl" |
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Barbara Einreich:
Welcome to Cancerland |
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Feminization and capitalization of the disease
Pink stuffed teddy bears |
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Clare:
Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies |
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| If bodies can be stolen, they can be reclaimed |
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Anne Fausto-Sterling:
Bare Bones |
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We are all nature and all nurture
Disease mongering osteoporosis |
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Judy Taylor:
Feminist Consumerism and Fat Activists: Grassroots Activism and the Dove 'Real Beauty' Campaign |
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Consumerism: Increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial
Feminist movement: movement aimed at equal rights for women
interactions of the two |
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Robert Sapolsky
The Trouble with Testosterone |
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| Testosterone exacerbates aggressive behavior |
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| Wangsgaard Thompson: A Way Outta No Way- Eating Problems |
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Eating disorders aren't exclusive to white, upper-middle class heterosexual women
Abuse, poverty, heterosexism, racism, class injuries compound eating disorders
Body image vs. Body consciousness |
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| Tiefer: Female Sexual Dysfunction |
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Disease mongering
pink pill |
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| Hamilton: Trading on Heterosexuality |
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College girls fuckin around
feminine roles centered around heterosexual conceptions
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| Susan Stryker: Transgender Feminism |
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Facing trans issues will help with female and queer politics
look past your own identity to fight as a whole |
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| Carolyn Herbst Lewis: Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Premarital Pelvic Exam |
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| Pelvic exams to promote good sex for men and create and stable family situation for the cold war's benefit |
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