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Week 1 Key Term Flashcards
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- 1AndrocentrismPutting men at the center and relegating women to outsiders in society
- 2Black feminismA philosophy centering on Black women’s experiences analyzed through intersectional paradigms
- 3FemininityPossession of qualities and traits traditionally associate with being female
- 4FeminismThe movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression (hooks, 1984)
- 5IntersectionalityThe idea that no individual has a unitary identity, and that each of us comprises a complex combination of both privileged and oppressed identities, sociopolitical locations, affiliations, and experiences
- 6Liberal feminismA branch of feminism that focuses on achieving gender equality by reforming political, legal, and other public institutions
- 7MasculinityPossession of qualities and traits traditionally associate with being male
- 8MisogynyThe hatred of and/or contempt for women
- 9OppressionThe exercise of structural power that devalues the work, experiences and voices of individuals due to their membership in a marginalized social group/s
- 10PatriarchyA system where men and masculine bodies dominate because power and authority are in the hands of adult men
- 11PrivilegeA special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people
- 12Radical feminismA branch of feminism that calls for a transformational re-structuring of society in order to eliminate the oppression of women
- 13Social justiceJustice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society
- 14Transnational feminismsFeminist paradigms and activist movements that focuses on the diverse experiences of women within and across national borders
- 15Women of color feminismsActivism and scholarship by women of color and antiracist White allies to support gender, race, and class equality
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- Women's Studies Flashcards on Week 1 Key Term Flashcards, created by Lysa Salsbury on 10/08/2023.
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