Chapter 6

Question 1

essentialize

Answer 1

reducing a group of people to simplistic defining characteristics

Question 2

instrumentalized

Answer 2

a tool to achieve an ultimate goal as opposed to being treated as an end in itself

Question 3

masculinities

Answer 3

recognizing of masculine activities, individually and collectively as socially constructed and shifting

Question 4

radical feminist

Answer 4

calls for reordering of society and the economy to rid it of all forms of patriarchy and male supremacy

Question 5

socialist feminist

Answer 5

focused on gender inequality in the workplace, greater state involvement to abolish all forms of discrimination against women

Question 6

othering

Answer 6

Viewing those unlike oneself and one’s own cultural/social/ethnic/racial group or
gender as worth less than oneself and
one’s own group

Question 7

transnational feminism

Answer 7

post-colonial theorizing of women’s differences and emphasizes importance of incorporating political economy into analyses of gender and development

Question 8

transversal

Answer 8

overlapping and interconnecting theorizing

Question 9

empowerment

Answer 9

enhanced sense of participation, changing oneself rather than the operating structures of the system

Question 10

gender mainstream

Answer 10

integration of gender into all facets of policies and programs in all political, economic, and societal spheres

Question 11

positionalities

Answer 11

awareness of social situationa and power relationships in which individual is embedded