Terms

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Hegemony

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dominant beliefs or ideals that are taken for granted and thus naturalized in a culture at any given time

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Albeism

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privileges able-bodied people over disabled people through everyday practices, attitudes, assumptions and discrimination

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Ageism

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privileges some people over others based on age through everyday practices, attitudes, assumptions, behaviours, and institutional rules

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Activism

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The policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change

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androgynous

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self-ascribed state of embodiment among individuals rejecting the binary structure of woman and man or having both male and female charcteristics

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asexual

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individuals not interested in sexual expression or practice

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binary

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two opposite terms in which one may be subordinated to the other
ex. binaries of male/female, modern/tradition

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biological essentialism

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perspective that naturalizes differences between social groups, such as gender differences, racial differences, etc often positioning their origins in biology

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classism

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privileges some people over others based on socioeconomic status through everday practices, attitudes, assumptions, behaviours, and institutional rules

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discrimination

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unequal allocation of valued goods and resources based on one’s social position and group membership
-limiting groups of full privilege and right

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difference

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• womens location in social situations differs from men

- gender difference: division of labour in the household

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discourse

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dominant or powerful way of thinking

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doing gender

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involves a complex of socially guided perceptual that case particular expressions of masculine and feminine natures

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epistemology

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study of the origin, nature, and limits of human knowledge

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essentialism

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perspective that naturalizes differences between social groups

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femininities/ masculinities

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examining of relationships between men and women, femaleness and maleness, and intersections with other catergories of social relations

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feminism

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movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppresion

-commmited to activism, social change, and equality

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feminist pedagogy

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• empowering students to become critical and creative thinkers
• teaching methods and approcahes in the classroom that were adopted by feminists and later adopted by men and women teaching in various disciplines

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first wave feminism

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the 19th century and early 20th century European and North American mobilization to gain voting rights and open professions to women

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gender empowerment

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attempt to measure the extent of gender inequality across the globe based on estimates of womens relative economic income, partipations in hig paying positions with economic power and access to proffesional and parliamentary positions

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gender based analysis

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helps us to understand the ways in which identities are constructed in relation to other binary formations and other social divisions
-systematically integrates a gender perspective into the development of policies, programs, and legislation, as well as planning and decision making processes

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globalization

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linking markets and currencies around the world and used to suggest homogenization of cultures

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homophobia

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bias or prejudice against all nonheterosexual identities and practices, usually displayed through violence or discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trasngender people

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identitiy

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the distinguishing character or personality of an individual, the relation established by psychological identification

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ideology

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- a systematic body of concepts especially about human life or culture - a manner or the content of thinking charcteristic of an individual, group, or culture

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immigration

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the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country

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intersectionality

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- recognition of strands that make up identity, ex: ways in which racism and sexism are intertwined in the identities of women of colour - an intersectional analysis of inequality incorporates the relationship between race, gender, ethnicity, and class in defining social outcomes

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intersex

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individuals medically labeled outside of "typical" or "standard" sex categories

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intersubjectivity

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involving or occuring between seperate conscious minds | -accessible to or capable of being established for two or more subjects

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meritocracy

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1.Government or the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their ability

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objectivity

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judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices.

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other/ otherness

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condition of occupying a marginal position or being and "object", the opposite of a subject, or position of power

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othering

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philosophical concept that the self requires an other to establish and insure its own existence

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patriarchy

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a dynamic system of power and inequality that privileges men and boys over women and girls in social interactions and institutions -power system organized around male authority

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power

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feminist analyses of women's lives must kep power differences among women in view, not to seperate and exclude women from a dominant community but rather to allow the complex histories and relationships among diverse women to emerge and become part of the discusiion

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privilege

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access to valued cultural and institutional resources that are denied to others based on social status membership

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racialization

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term used in order to emphasize the fact that racial catergories are social constructions that change and are attributed wit status and mean -labeling minority people

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racism

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priviliges people over others based on constructed racial classifications -those with greater social power and oppresses others through everyday practices, attitudes, assumptions, behaviours, and rules

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second wave feminism

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"new social movement" dedicated to raising consciousness about sexism and patriarchy, legalizing abortion and birth control, attaining equal rights in political and economic realms and gaining sexual liberation

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sex

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categories based on culturally accepted biological attributes

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sexuality

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term that encompasses a range of concepts, ideologies, identites, behaviours, and expressions related to sexual personhood and desire

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sexual orientation

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a self ascribed state of embodiment that describe sexual desires and practices -emphasizs that some people feel that one has no control of influence over the development of ones sexual attractions

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sexual preference

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how one thinks of her/himself in terms of being attrcted to members of the same of the other sex -emphasizes that some people feel that one does or should have some control or influence over the development of ones sexual attractions

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social construction

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emphasizes the role of social interaction and culture in meaning making practices incluing those that shape social statuses and produce inequlaity

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social locations

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aspects of identity such as socio-economic status, race, religiois affliction, sexual orientation, and ability

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social scripts

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points to the fact that much of sexual behavior seems to follow a script -social scripts intruct members of a society to appropriate behaviour and the meanins to attach to certain behaviours

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subjectivity

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the conscious and unconsious thoughts and emotions of an individual, hersense of herself and her ways of understanding her relation to the world

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third wave feminism

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expressed concerns pertaining to second wave feminist agendas and tried to create new projects focusing on issues of race and sexuality and fightin the new backlash against feminism

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transgender

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term that includes indivduals who change, cross, and/or go beyond or throuh the culturally defined binary gender catergories

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two-spirited

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self descriptor used by gays, lesbians, and bisexual and transgender Aboriginal people

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world system

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perspective that seeks to explain the dynamics of the capitalis world economy as a total social system... the emphasis is on development and unequal opportunities accross nations, it has been embraced by development theorists and practitioners