SOC306 American Women Concept Guide

Make sure you know what the concepts mean, to what other concepts they are related, why they are important, and you can give or identify an example.

Concept Guide I

8/29 and 9/5 Why women’s studies?

Women’s studies

Androcentrism

Gender

Feminism

Liberal feminism

Radical feminism

Marxist feminism

Multicultural feminism

The second wave

The third wave

Revolutionary feminism

Anti-racist agenda

9/10 and 9/12 What about privilege?

Privilege

Inequality

Intersecting axes

Difference

Domination

Oppression—institutional, symbolic, individual

Institutions

Ideology

Categories of Analysis

Coalitions

Empathy

Gender stereotyping

Homophobia

White privilege and male privilege

Classism

Social construction and deconstruction

9/17 and 9/19 Learning gender

Biology and culture

Masculinity

Femininity

Gender ranking

Plurality of gender-based realities

9/24 and 9/26 What about sex?

Sexuality

Sexual orientation

Sexual self-schemas

Heterosexuality

Homosexuality

Lesbian

Bisexuality

Coming out

Transgendered

Sexual politics

Compulsory heterosexuality

Heteronormativity

Intimacies

Sexual desire

Radical heterosexuality

10/1 and 10/10 What about our bodies?

Internalization

Identity and self-expression

Objectification

Beauty ideal

Eating disorders

Body transcendence

Concept Guide II

10/22 and 10/24 How about health?

Androcentrism

Medicalization

Gender stereotyping

Gender role

Gender role stressors

10/29 and 10/31 Families

Family

Constructed problems

11/5 and 11/7 Women’s work

Unpaid labor

Horizontal and vertical segregation

Comparable worth

Glass ceiling

Sticky floor

11/21 and 11/26 Violence Against Women

Rape spectrum

Supremacy crimes

11/28 and 12/3 The Future

Activism

Justice-based politics of integrity

Profeminism

Click

Medical model

Backlash

Global feminism