Feminism Flashcards
1
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Waves of feminism
2 steps ?
Allowed?
A
- Study of women without challenging the dominant narratives
- Study of gender- self reflective, focus on identities and polyvocality
- Allowed the emergence of theoretical understandings of the connections between race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and power
2
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Feminist anthropology
A
Puts an emphasis on critical assessment of traditional, entrenched, and normative assumptions that pervade many aspects of academic research
Motivated by a belief that structures of power have obscured the social experiences of many
Strives to contend with inequalities driven by social difference, gender representing just one variable in settings
3
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Hijra
A
Are understood as a special group of people born with missing or ambiguous genitals de linked from desire
