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New Social Movements --emerged in the 1960s -challenged traditional political allegiances of .Western liberal politics .Worker-based movements (labor unions) .State socialism (Western and Eastern Europe) .broad-based and identity-based Broad-Based Movements -.Civil rights movements .Anti-Vietnam War activism .Environmental movement .Free speech on campus movement Identity-based Movements --Black Power Movement -American Indian Movement -Chicano/a Movement (La Raza) -Feminist Movemen...

Patriarchal - describes a society or culture dominated by men. Other - denotes "different from" and not as important as the privileged term of a binary. I.e. women, the colonized. Sexual Politics - posits that economic inequality and ideological indoctrination have been the chief causes of women's oppression. Also denotes distinctions between sex and gender. Gynocriticism - defines the process of constructing "a female framework for the analysis of women's literature to develop new mo...

Feminism -the belief that women should possess the same political and economic rights as men Equal Pay Act -made it illegal for employers to pay female workers less than men for the same job Betty Friedan -American Feminist, writer of The Feminine Mystique, cofounded NOW National Organization of Women -Feminist political group formed in 1967 to promote legislative change. Lobbied for the Equal Right Amendment (and failed). Gloria Steinem -founder and original publisher of Ms. magazine, and...

What is colorism? - differential treatment based on skin tone that generally manifests itself as a preference for lighter colored skin -a prejudice that continues to exist not only among blacks but also among many POC and whites What does it mean to say someone/something is exoticized? - viewed as exotic, foreign, or unusual in an interesting way -women outside the racial norm have been exoticized in 2 ways: grotesquely sexual or sexually inviting and seductively mysterious Objectificatio...

Radical Feminism is -DISMANTLING PATRIARCHY Where did Radical Feminism come from? -Started in the late 1960s Grew out of the women's liberation movement Sees women's oppression as the root of all oppression (radical = 'of the roots') Not allied to pre-existing political/ philosophical systems - the first such system to be overtly woman- centred (by women, for women) Key concept: "the personal is political" How does radical feminism explain gender inequalities? -As a product of male ...

Feminism: BASICS --Inequality in every society, women inferior, feminism rectifies -Gender norms are social constructs designed to discriminate against/oppress women. Children socialised this way -Patriarchy=female disadvantage -Political activism to rectify systematic injustice -Work with govs for social policies to better equality Liberal Feminists: Gradual change --In political, economic and social systems -In culture/values/children's books/toys -Changes in existing in structure Li...

Feminism -the belief that women should possess the same political and economic rights as men Feminism key concepts -- It is a conflict theory which suggests that there is a patriarchal oppression towards women in society - That sociology is male stream where male thinkers only focus on the issue's men face in society - It has evolved to deal with the contemporary issues and the intersectionality of women Intersectionality -the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, c...

What are the basic questions of feminism? What is explored within each one? -1. And what about the women?/Where are women are the women in any situated being investigated?/How do they experience the situation? Answer: Women are present in most social situations (Academic, legislative, public, social actors), when they are not it is due to deliberate action to exclude them. Women's role are present but are different, less privileged, and subordinate to roles of men. Invisibility=Inequality ...

male participants - - all types of feminists tend to agree that IR assumes ___ when discussing foreign policy, decision making, state sovereignty, use of military force, etc - feminist critics ask that scholars recognize the gendered nature of IR rather than implicitly making this assumption difference feminism - - strand of feminism that believes gender differences are not just socially constructed and views women as inherently less warlike than men on average - state and individual level...

malestream -how feminists believe many see society - male-dominated and from their perspective only subordinated -how feminists see females as being treated in society, and is part of their political movement to change their position late 19th century -the 'first wave' of feminism, with the suffragettes' campaign for women's right to vote 1960s -the 'second wave' of feminism, which took on the world globally liberal -the type of feminist who believe women can achieve gender equality...