Key Takeaways:
What are gender Norms
are reinforced across different spheres, including media, social structures, and the environment.
Digital Feminism
Fourth wave feminism is characterized by online activism and platforms like #MeToo.
Critiques of online feminism: clicktivism, shallow engagement, and the risk of trivializing serious causes.
Intimate Partner Violence
IPV is a significant health issue for women worldwide, influenced by factors at individual, familial, community, and global levels.
What are Reproductive Rights?
having the rights, knowledge and ability to make decisions and to access services concerning one's reproductive life and sexuality.
Heteronormativity
The idea that heterosexuality is the "norm" or default, with other sexualities considered deviant.
Cultural Competence
Cultural Competence
Liberal Feminism
A form of feminism that emphasizes individual rights and equal access to education, employment, and legal protections within the existing system.
Colonial Violence
Indigenous women as leaders challenge colonial, heteropatriarchal political structures
How do gender and Race affect health care treatment?
Women’s symptoms are often dismissed as psychological, and the pain of men and white people is taken more seriously.
Queer Baiting
Marketing using superficial cues to suggest queer representation to attract a queer audience.
"Lavender Menace"
A term used to describe the marginalization of lesbians within the feminist movement, coined by Betty Friedan but later reclaimed by lesbian feminists.
Reformist Feminism
A branch of feminism focused on achieving gender equality within existing societal structures, often through legal and policy reforms
Structural Violence
Harm or disadvantage caused by systemic inequities and social structures, often affecting marginalized groups (e.g., migrant workers, racial minorities).
What is For-Profit Health Care
Increasing privatization affects healthcare access and quality, with decisions driven by profit rather than patient needs.
Feminine Ideals
Cultural expectations of how women should look and behave, often perpetuated by mainstream media and society.
Tokenism
The practice of making a superficial effort to include marginalized groups, without addressing deeper systemic issues or inequalities.
Fourth Wave Feminism
The fourth wave of feminism is largely characterized by its online presence, where social media plays a central role. Critiques include the idea that it may be shallow or overly focused on trends, reducing the significance of more profound causes A more nuanced, hooks-inspired approach encourages engagement in dialogue, self-reflection, and the combination of online activism with offline efforts.
Violence as Universal
The idea that violence against women occurs across cultures needs to be understood not as inherent to any one culture, but as a structural issue shaped by economic, racial, and social inequalities.
Biomedical Model of Health
Focuses on disease, treatment, and the body as a machine, often neglecting prevention and the social determinants of health.
Gendered Ways of Knowing
The understanding that knowledge is shaped by gendered experiences and perspectives, and that analyzing the full complexity of an issue requires considering gendered factors.
Coverture
A legal doctrine under which a married woman was considered the property of her husband, depriving her of independent legal rights.
Liberal vs. Radical Feminism
Liberal feminism focuses on legal equality and reform within existing systems, while radical feminism seeks to dismantle patriarchy. The feminist movement in Canada has addressed a wide range of issues, from reproductive rights to violence against women.
"Bad Victims"
Victims who are marginalized (e.g., poor, uneducated, radicalized) and often sexualized in media portrayals.
When was Abortion decriminalized in Canada?
1969
Hysteria, Agoraphobia, Anorexia Nervosa
Historically gendered and localized disorders, often associated with the pressures women face to conform to societal ideals of femininity.