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WOMENSST 187: Finals
Masculinities |
things about being manly |
welfare queens |
people who collect welfare by fraud or manipulation |
welfare warriors |
people who still get medicaid even after they are off the welfare program: not using it unfairly |
Picture Brides |
a practice that a guy would go to labor camps and show men a book of pictures of Japanese women like male order brides...caused sex-slave trafficking |
global sisterhood |
Deconstructing gender difference: sisterhood / groupness cannot be
assumed |
reproductive justice |
idea that all women and men have the right to have they children they want as well as not have the children and pregnancies they don't want, includes affordable access to safe birth control including abortion |
coverture |
legal doctrine that grants married women no rights independent of their husbands |
gendered state |
(what is sounds like obvi) also abortion is a women's issue and is not being taken care of, the female gender is not being addressed or represented. |
gendered citizenship |
-practical participation means much more than just voting |
violence |
-2 years for rape of a black woman, 5 for latina, 10 for white
-slave cannot be considered raped because they are property
-indian is dirty, so rapable
-only a "pure" body can be raped
-learned helplessness (battered woman syndrome)
-rape trauma syndrome(lack of reporting) |
mulitracial feminism |
... |
ocular vs specular |
ocular- of or pertaining to the eye: try to see what you are looking at
specular- of or pertaining to a mirror: seeing others as a reflection of ourselves |
agency |
their voice to affect things around them, shape things to their lifestyle |
multiple narratives |
multiple narratives |
matrilineal vs matriarchal |
-matriarchal: women are in charge, women have contro, hierarchy of top down women over men
- matrilineal: there is no society where woman have the power over men in the same way that men have the power over women in a patriarchy
-these two terms are NOT equal
-you always belong to your mother's clan in a matrilineal society, not much emphasis on sexuality, no stress on divorce, man can leave, children still belong to mother's clan |
double burden thesis |
burden of being a minority race AND a woman |
add and stir |
saying there are women [in power] who are just like men, instead of looking at the structure
|
cult of true womanhood |
piety: religiosity
purity: sex was for procreation, not supposed to enjoy sex
domesticity: we must be able to clean and cook
submissiveness: different from collaboration |
intimately oppressed |
married women's status in society = that of a slave, slavery is a metaphor for marriage |
private/public spheres |
public decency versus what you do at home |
global sisterhood |
women are not homogenous, women's issues are not universal, global sisterhood erases different cultural experiences |
freedom summer |
intersection between students rights movement and southern civil rights movement |
aint i a woman |
they are as able as a man(ability), but are still treated like such a gentle flower that needs to be helped down from a carriage etc |
Orientalism vs. Exoticism |
Orientalism: Already making assumptions
Exoticism: Walking into the unknown |
Republican Motherhood |
-women denied a reasonable education but trained in social artificialities
-women responsible for the moral characteristics of the choldren for progress
-education of women is reliative to that of men |
Seneca Falls convention |
big convention held by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
3 major resolutions
1 women wanted equality before the law
2 equality in workplaces
3 equality in political rights (vote)
3 words 3 resolutions |
Suffrage movement; |
The movement organized around gaining voting rights for women, 1920. |
first wave |
1800-1900
-suffragists |
second wave |
1960-80s
-equality through reforming the currents system focus on individual rights and freedoms, changing state policies |
second wave |
1960-80s
-equality through reforming the currents system focus on individual rights and freedoms, changing state policies |
third wave |
90's
-diverity and intersectionality
-pstmodernism
-ecofeminism
-post colonial
-psychoanalytic |
fourth wave |
are we in a fourth wave
-social media wave
|
neoliberalism |
privitization of the costs of social reproduction, along with the care of human depepndency needs through personal responsiblity exercised in the family and civil society
-shifts costs from state agencies to individuals and households |
Mammy |
stereotype of an African-American woman as an overweight caretaker of white people |
The Jezebel |
This image shows the African woman as sex-starved who was childishly promiscuous and
consumed by lustful passion |
hyde amendment |
govt won't pay for abortion
-eroding of the right |
what is coverture, to whom did it apply? |
limiting women's rights after marriage: applied to women |
in her article, 10 reasons to rethink reproductive choice |
1.Choice resonates most with women
who see themselves as having
choices; not with those who don’t.
2.Choice homogenizes reproductive
experiences.
3. Choice has not included the right to
have children.
4.Choice disconnects abortion from
the rest of women’s lives.
5.Choice is a conservative framing. |
cont from marlene firend thisng |
5.Choice is a conservative framing.
6.Choice is a market concept.
7.Choice is individualistic.
8.Choice focuses only on women’s
reproductive decisions.
9.Choice lacks moral force.
10.Choice is not the vision needed to
mobilize a broad and inclusive
movement. Reproductive Justice
provides that vision |
2 competitve narratives between civil rights and feminism |
civil rights: the white male and female vs black males and females
feminism: males vs females |
discursive representation of immigration and global sisterhood |
representing something throuhg the ways we talk about it
:supression of heterogeneity of people who immigrate
:we say that global sisterhood-all women are the same essentially, so we eradicate individuality and promote sameness |
Mohanty question |
1) it's not taking. Into account that black and white women don't have similar experiences. Western ideals placed on other countries
2) there is no intersectional analysis |
second wave |
1960-80s
-equality through reforming the currents system focus on individual rights and freedoms, changing state policies |
third wave |
90's
-diverity and intersectionality
-pstmodernism
-ecofeminism
-post colonial
-psychoanalytic |