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WMST Exam 2Epistemologies - ANS-Theories that are concerned with how knowledge is produced
and circulated.
Essentialism - ANS-a theory that there is an essence that defines a particular entity and
makes it innately different from other groups
Sex-Positive - ANS-A view that a person can choose whether or not to express their
sexuality and in a variety of ways.
Colorism - ANS-a form of discrimination based on one's skin color that privileges people
with light skin color
Agender - ANS-a person without gender
Medicalization - ANS-The idea that physicians have the ultimate authority to diagnose a
symptom and through this process a person becomes a patient in need of medical
intervention.
Asexual - ANS-a person who doesn't experience sexual interaction
Body work - ANS-an effort to create an alignment between appearance and character,
between identity and body
Standpoint Theory - ANS-theories that acknowledge how people's location of and
relationship to power, or standpoint, shape one's worldview
Situated Knowledge - ANS-Knowledge is always produced from a specific disciplinary,
ideological, and social location
subvertisements - ANS-a subversive way of reappropriating advertising images
Wikisexuality - ANS-a collaborative and interactive-based sexuality, not an essence
based sexuality
True or False: labels can get attatched to bodies and can shape how we make
meanings around those bodies. - ANS-True
, Body labels are intersectional categories that both cement and create cultural scripts
and ____________________ for how those bodies should be experienced and power
hierarchies are maintained - ANS-Epistemologies
stories often ________________________ bodies into a single image: young, white,
cisgender, heterosexual, middle- and upper-class, able bodied - ANS-essentialize
in accordance with essentialism, bodies are percieved to be the determining factor for
people's________________ and behaviors - ANS-identities
true or false: to argue that women's behavior is inherently different from men's because
of their biological differences is to essentialize them - ANS-true
when we start challenging an essentialist or idealist body identity we can: -
ANS-Question the limited constructions of normative versus deviant bodies, move
beyond essentializing any bodies, destabilize any category that may originate in the
body
what are discursive bodies - ANS-the way we talk about and discuss bodies
as the materiality or the body is reconfigured, it shifts the way that others
_____________________ that body - ANS-discuss, read, and understand.
The knowledge we have about bodies and sexuality (largely females' sexuality) are
______________________ - ANS-socially constructed
True or False: Our general unknowingness around bodies and sexuality is
systematically constructed - ANS-true
12. Accurate knowledge about (heterosexual) women's sexual pleasure is often
___________ and attached to "horror" narratives to prevent young women from getting
- ANS-structurally erased
13. Body practices are/were purposefully done to curb women's sexual pleasures and to
discipline women's bodies for the sake of __________________ - ANS-a men's arousal
14. Feminists and sex-positive activists have worked toward challenging ignorance and
repression of women's __________________ - ANS-bodies, sexualities, and pleasures
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