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Midterm Rory Dickers
150 Vanderbilt university
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Women's & Gender Studies
Not Applicable
02/24/2005

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social construction of gender
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Lorber, recent, doign gender, no biological basis for gender, but we apply hierarchy with social construction, make women lower
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gender ranking
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men over women, lorber
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gender stratification
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men more important than women, lorber
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gender inequality
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men more important than women, lorber, social construction of gender
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gender socialization
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lorber, pollitt conditioning produces kids in their gender, no biological basis social construction
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masculinity/feminity
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duh
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cult of true woman hood
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Welter, 188-1860, pre first wave submission, peity, purity and domesticity
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producer/consumer
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bling bling
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mother woman
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awakening, chopin, adelle v.s. edna
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feminism
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believing in the equality of sexes
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the personal is political
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dogulas I am woman hear me roar, a description of the second wave feminist movement
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the problem that has no name
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freidan, early 1960 impetous for second wave feminism. woman are dissatisfied with their pointless overeducated lives. hard to explain because of femine mistique
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conciousness raising
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practice of discussing womens issue in a symposium, very hippy, secnod wave, mentioned by douglas
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legitmate and illegitmate goals of feminism
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douglas, i am woman hear me roar
legitmate: equal pay for equal worth, abortion junk, issues of day cares
illegitimate= objectivication of women, personal is political stuff, far left radicalism
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body conciousness
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thompson, a way out of no way eatin disorders in black and latina's body conciousness is a womans ability to live in side her body happily, it is beyond body image which is only a visual perception, this is the ability to function at a very basic lvl
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body image
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visiual concept of ones self
thompson a way out of no way
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culture of thinness
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what thompson doesnt believe causes all eating disorders, namely saying that trauma is another large cause
a way out of no way
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body hatred
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hating ones body, mentioned by chernick in "A BODY POLITIC" , when she quit her anorexia she was able to percieve this downfall in other women, even feminists
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beauty pornography
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the concept that their is only one sexual body acceptable and that body si a starved one, leads to eating disorders and the paradoxical concept of making women starve to be sexy, somethign which deprivses them of any sexual drive, HUNGER WOLF
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one stone solution
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the majority of women would be happier if they lost one stone of weight, even happier than getting ahead in work, or love, according to glamour, wolf,
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narcissism
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douglas, narcissim as liberatino youve come a long way baby, spend spend spend, and obsess over your body image, anything to make women competitive and starving for male aproval, this is profitable, buns of steel,crem de la assault rifle porenater 2000
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competitive individualism
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women should compete among themselves over men, result of narcism as libberation, reversal of natural order
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iron maiden
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mediviel torture deviice/ brilliant analogy to the myth of beauty that holds women back in life. WOLF BEAUTY MYTH, a backlash from the second wave of feminism needed to put women back int otheir place after they started invading important institutions, leads to pernicious eating problems
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wrote the little mermaid
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anderson
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wrote toys
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barthes
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name and authors of article about disney heroines
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construction of the female self a feminist reading of the disney heroine
birnie henke et al
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nude naked surveyor servyeed male gaze
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berger all the same concept WAYS OF SEEING , concept of nude v.s. naked objectified nude, v.s. subjective naked
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glamour
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being enviable, the future tense of advertising if you get x product then you will be envied liked, approved of ties in with narcissim as liberatin
berger WAYS OF SEEING
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this article tells of the gains from the second wave of feminism and beyond
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A DAY WITHOUT FEMINISM
RICHARDS AND BAUMGARDNER
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Recorder of Sojourn Truth, and the loation of her adress
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Akron, GAGE
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two articles by douglas
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i am woman hear me roar
narcissm as liberation
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two articles by wolf
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hunger, beauty myth
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article with "im sorry about barbie"
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pollitt, why boys dont play with dolls
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article about barbie
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i believe in dolls, SHIELD, about barbies plus and minuses
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