WMST Chapter 5 Flashcards
(43 cards)
Confirmation Bias
The phenomenon whereby a few cases of the expected behaviour confirm a belief or theory, especially when the behavior is attention-getting or widely reported.
Consciousness-raising
A technique of analysis pioneered by North American feminists and Latin American political activists, that political issues through small group discussion of everyday issues and experiences.
Difference Feminism
Focuses on the differences between men and women, calling for a valuation of women’s distinct traits and abilities. In some cases, focusing on separation from the work and values of men.
Ecofeminism
Theories and activism linking feminism with environmental concerns. Male domination and environmental degredation are seen as related.
Essential Feminism
Same as difference feminism.
First-wave Feminism
A social movement that lasted from 1850 to the end of WWI. Emphasized women’s legal status and, eventually, suffrage, taking on many social issues.
Gender Divisions
According to Jean Acker, the ways in which “ordinary organizational practices produce the gender patterning of jobs, wages, and hierarchies, power and subordination”.
Gender Images
According to Joan Acker, symbols and images that “explain, express, reinforce, or sometimes oppose gender divisions.’ For example: symbols of workers in a specific industry reinforce the view that only that gender can perform such work.
Identity Politics
Politics based on the interests and identities of groups as distinctive.
Institutions
Structures governing the behaviour of individuals and ensuring society’s smooth functioning.
Intersectionality
The analysis of intersecting or multiple identities and forms of discrimination. No one form can be understood as operating independently from other forms of discrimination.
Lesbian Feminism
A social movement within 1970s feminism that contributed a critique of heterosexuality as an institution and, in some cases advocated lesbianism or separatism as a political option.
Liberal Feminism
A from of feminism that that focuses on legal remedies for inequality between men and women and creating the most gender neutral society possible.
Maternalist
Celebrating mothering as a source of prestige and dignity, and as an argument and basis for women’s participation in society and politics.
Marxist Feminisms
Marxist feminists who tend to view the eradication of capitalism as the way to create gender equality.
Men’s Movement
Movements of men seeking changes, emerging in the 1970s. Split in several directions in the 1990s, and now includes both pro-feminist and anti-feminist groups.
Men’s Liberation Movement
A 1970s movement, sympathetic to feminism, that criticized the restrictions and burdens of the male sex role.
Men’s Rights Movement
A movement that split from the men’s liberation movement in the 1970, becoming focused on alleged discrimination against men in a variety of areas, including child custody and post divorce financial support.
Men’s Studies
An interdisciplinary academic field dedicated to the study of masculinities, men’s lives, gender and feminism.
Mid-life Crisis
A developmental “crisis” characterized by a pressure to make wholesale changes in work, relationships and leisure.
Multiracial Feminism
Feminism that emerged in the 1970s a part of a critique of racism and Eurocentrism within the 2nd wave feminism movement.
Mythopoetic/New Man’s Movement
A segment of the men’s movement that focuses on reclaiming archetypal and mythical forms of masculinity through poetry, literature and ritual.
Narrative Coherence
In the simplest terms a story that hangs together. The making of stories is fundamental to human cognitive processes.
Organizational Gender Neutrality
The vehicle by which the gender order is reproduced. . Joan Acker: this covers up, obscures, the underlying gender structure, allowing practices that perpetuate it to continue even as efforts to reduce gender inequality are also underway.
