final study deck Flashcards
(35 cards)
• Sex
o Biological and genetic marker (penis vagina chromosomes)
has sex changed over the years?
yes
o Sex has changes throughout history
• ex: females were believes to have internal penis
• Ex: “homosexuality” (use in quotes in paper) was once thought to be a disease
• Gender
o Socially or culturally defined
• Ex: traits attitudes or activities you are involved in
issue with the gender binary
• 2 genders excludes those who do not identify as either gender
o Those who are intersex or do not identify
o Third gender is referred to as two spirits in indigenous cultures
Toxic Masculinity
• used to define the way masculinity may harm society, women, and men themselves
intersectionality
• Lived reality of connected and or compounded oppressions and privileges based on ones multiple aspects of identity
Internalization
- Internalized racism that the women in the film felt
- Wanted to clean or bleach skin
- Is the internal oppression by those who are subordinates
Abject body
o Something that evokes simultaneously feeling of fascination and repulsion
o Ex: freak show reading
• Also a car wreck
Voyeurism
o Joy, and often sexual gratification of witnessing or watching other in a private setting
Ethnocentrism
o Evaluation of another culture based on the standards of ones own
Cultural relativism
o Belief that every culture is unique and should be responsible for their own people
Orientalism
o depiction of those in the East by those in the west
• Typically backwards or barbaric
Stereotype
o Reduces people to a few simple essential characteristics which are represented as fixed by nature
Ally ship
:Those who support the advocacy of certain groups even if they do not identify as someone of that particular group
Colourism
• : preferential treatment of those with lighter skin
Male gaze
• Depiction of women as sexual objects for the assumed male heterosexual viewer through voyeurism and fetishization
Tokenism
• The superficial inclusion of a minority character for the appearance of being inclusive/ progressive
Smurfette principle
• The practice of including a females in an otherwise male-dominated cast
The Bechdel Test
• Basic measure of representation for women in fiction
Intimate partner violence (IPV)
• Violence occurs in intimate relationship between 2 people
• Also called domestic violence
o Do not use as trend tends to be focused more on married co habituated couples
types of IPV
Intimate terrorism
• More extreme
• Consistently
Situation couple
• More random
• Can involve both parties
Violent resistance
• Shooting in self defence
• Being violent to stop abuse
bidirectional violence vs unidirectional violence
Bidirectional violence
o is violence mutual engagement toward another
Unidirectional violence
o Violence enacted by one person onto someone else
‘honor killings”
• Deliberate killing of someone in order to maintain “integrity” of a family
Femicide
• :hate crime describing the deliberate killing of women for the fact they are female
