Weeks 1-2
A wave of feminism associated with the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s
Second-wave feminism
Tends to reflect the identities of those with the most power in society
Normality
Organizations that enable and encourage (and also disable, discipline, or discourage) particular sets of behavioral practices and social processes
Institutions
Performed
The deliberate altering of the human anatomy or human physical appearance.
Body modification
Term used by those who believe that feminism is obsolete
Postfeminism
Who said this: "Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and gay issue, because thousands of Black women are part of the lesbian community. Any attack against lesbians and gays is a Black issue, because thousands of lesbians and gay men are Black. There is no hierarchy of oppression"
Audrey Lorde
The process of learning to behave in a way that is acceptable to society
Socialization // Enculturation
The belief that ‘human nature’, an individual’s personality, or some specific quality (such as intelligence, creativity, homosexuality, masculinity, femininity, or a male propensity to aggression) is an innate and natural ‘essence’ rather than a product of circumstances, upbringing, and culture.
Biological Essentialism
A process through which one sees the body as an object and separate from its context
Objectification
WGSS Programs emerge during this wave of feminism
The second wave
She coined the term 'intersectionality'
Kimberle Crenshaw
This ideology or discourse considers economic success the result of hard work and ambition.
Bootstrap myth
Anthropologist who refuted the biological essentialist ideologies of the time period
Margaret Mead
How women’s worth is more tied to their physical appearance than men
Double standard of beauty
Who said this: "Womanist is to Feminist as Purple is to Lavender"
Alice Walker
Systems that discriminate and privilege based on perceived or real differences among people
Systems of Oppression
Describes institutionalized patterns of knowledge and how they legitimize power
Discourse
That women must reduce blood testosterone level to below five (5) nmol/L is an example of __________ in the Olympics
Gender policing
Women and girls who self police, and surveille themselves and others, engage in _______
Horizontal hostility
Courses that only teach the writings of (white) men are perpetuating this
Androcentrism
"Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh identities how everyday ______ can be assessed
Privilege
Wrote on the intersections of race, class, and gender, before the term 'intersectionality' was coined
Patricia Hill Collins
Judith Butler argues that everyday actions, speech utterances, gestures and representations, dress codes, behaviors, and taboos all work to produce ______
Essential masculine and feminine identities
South African Khoikhoi woman known under the stage name "Hottentot Venus"
Sarah Baartman