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| the distance you are willing to leave between yourself and a stigmatized group |
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| Assigning types of sexual behaviors to different races and elasticities to further otherize the groups |
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| a spectrum in which only female identified women, regardless of sexual orientation, in lesbian activity with encounters with other women |
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| Womanhood/female identified |
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| men & women who prioritize women's issues in their lives and politics. |
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| a lesbian: living, breathing and acting |
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| both localized practices and centralized institutions which legitimize and privilege heterosexuality and heterosexual relationships as fundamental and "natural" within society. |
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| Women dressing like men to marry women (pretending to be men) or different cultures where women marry women |
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| array of sexual actions deamed sexual among lesbians. |
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| Women claiming diverse identities |
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| before the word "lesbian" women could do lesbian things without identifying with our notion of lesbian |
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| Men vs. Women eating standards (advertisement) |
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Men: voracious consumption
Women: tiny, bite-sized portions, consumed secretively and guiltily |
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| widening the boundaries of what we consider queer to include the politics of all oppressed people and examine the intersections of the system of oppresion. |
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| old ideas of racism have evolved maintained by capitilism, institutionalized (hard to get jobs, etc.) |
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| Viagra, masculinity, and the penis |
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| our ideas of masculinity are wrapped up in the notion of penis size and function. viagra is a quick-fix solution to a broken masculinity. |
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| Limited concept...the act of imagining one's physical appearance. |
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| the ability to reside comfortably in one's body (to see oneself as embodied) and to consider one's body connected to oneself. |
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| making healthy people believe they are ill and making slightly ill people feel they are significantly ill. normalizing a body prototype to sell a product. |
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| a phenomena with potential to partially disrupt gender norms, but w/o provoking a substantive feminist transformation of beauty ideology. |
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| Culture can create disease. Cannot separate the body from culture |
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| wants every women to feel beautiful by reinforcing beauty standards and ideals. |
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| Compulsory Heterosexuality |
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| because society is patriarchal it is focused on men being happy, assumes heterosexuality to be the norm. (families to be heterosexual within that strict gender roles) |
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| Potential to be influenced into the hegemonic masculinity because of homophobia and access to power through heterosexuality...realized he was stepping out into a world of heterosexual privilege. |
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| Issues that compound eating disorders |
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| abuse, poverty, heterosexism, racism, and class injuries....a lot of these are feelings of having control of what you eat. |
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| does not always imply that a person is guy, but instead used as a tool for feminization and stripping a man of his masculinity...tremendously powerful |
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| advertising sells values of who we are and who we should be |
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| weil Davis believes that we need to learn to love what real women look like again--varied, interesting, and original. |
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| Being blind strips you of your masculinity and requires overcompensation. Is there room for a blind woman to be feminine and want a romanticized notion of relationships |
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