Exsam 2 Flashcards
(30 cards)
Co-education
Educating men and women together
Hidden curriculum
Informal information taught about students place in society, messages students receive about race, class, and gender implicit in the way information is transmitted to students, material not covered, and in classroom dynamics
Sexual harassment
Unwanted sexual joking, teasing, or through propositions for sexual acts; or creating a hostile environment for someone given their gender or sexual orientation
Title IX
Requiring equal funding for girls and boys sports
Gender policing
Making sure no one violates the rules of masculinity (or femininely)
Hazing
Initiation rituals that involve violence, coercion, illegal activity, excessive alcohol consumption, or being forced to perform humiliating acts in order to be accepted into an organisation or social group
Separate but equal
Idea that it is okay to provide separate facilities for girls and boys as long as they have comparable resources
Brown versus Board of Education
1954 Supreme Court decision declaring “separate but equal” unconstitutional
Monotheism
Belief in one god
Polytheism
Belief in multiple gods
Goddess traditions
Worship of female deities
Chador
Dark, traditional garment worn in public by Muslim women that covers almost all the head and body
Hijab
Veil worn in Muslim society
Ritual purification
Cleansing in a ritual bath following mensturuation that makes orthodox Jewish women clean so they may rejoin social life
Celibacy
Refraining from sexual activity
Religiosity
Level of religionless measured by frequency of religious observance, church attendance ect.
Fundamentalism
Belief in bible as literal text; following the teaching of the bible as a way of life
Promise keepers
Evangelical Christian movement comprised of men that seeks to bring men back to Jesus
Shaman
Spiritual leader believed to have special powers such as prophecy and the ability to heal
Wicca
Retrieval of ancient polytheistic and naturalist ideologies by women who proudly declare themselves witches and worship a mother goddess and focus on connections are among all living creatures
Misogyny
Hatred of women
Phallocentrism
Sexual expression centered around the phallus, men’s sexual satisfaction and climax
Gendered political divide
Differences in political affiliation among men and women were women are more likely to be Democrats men were likely to be Republicans
Feminism
Belief in the economic, legal, and social rights of women