The Importance of Balance | Doing More, Winning Less | When Being a Women Gets Dangerous | Bargaining with Patriarchy | The Big Picture |
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What is Gender Binary
Classification of sex and gender into two distinct, opposite and disconnected forms of masculine and feminine
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What is Perform Femininity
Women are not weak, irrational, superficial, or naturally inclined towards lipstick and nail polish, but rather women are taught how to...
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What is Chivalry
Benevolent sexism rewards women who perform a degree of subservience with protection and support from men.
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What is Emphatic Sameness
Downplaying the feminine in the themselves in exchange for the right to do quite a bit of masculinity.
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What is Stalled revolution
This new gender order hurts both men and women, but differently; men suffer more from gender inequality as individuals, while women are harmed more as a group.
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What is Gender-nonconforming
People who do not adhere to society's rules about dress and activities for people that are based on their biological sex and gender assignment.
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What is Subordination
Placing women into position that make them subservient to or dependent on men.
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What is Hostile Sexism
Protection and support are revoked in favor of verbal or physical assault.
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What is Emphasized Femininity
Trading power for protection and support. an exaggerated form of femininity oriented to accommodating the interests and desires of men.
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What is Matrix of Domination
The structure in which multiple hierarchies intersect to create a pyramid of privilege.
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What is Female apologetic
The requirement that women balance their appropriation of masculine interests, traits and activities with feminine performance
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What is Gender Stereotypes
Widely held beliefs about the characteristics and behavior of women and men
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What is Hegemonic Femininity
Does not exist
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What is Gender Equivocation
Using both emphasized femininity and emphatic sameness when they are useful and culturally expected
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What is Feminism
It is been used ever since to describe efforts to reduce women's disadvantage relative to men and free both men and women from harmful and oppressive gender stereotypes.
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What is Female Ideal
Women who balance masculinity are often seen as more than just OK-
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What is Sexism
Prejudice against people based on their biological sex.
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What is Benevolent Sexism
The attribution of traits to women that, nonetheless, justify women's subordination to men
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What is Patriarchal Bargains
Emphasized Femininity, Emphatic Sameness, and Gender Equivocation.
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What is Feminist Utopia
An alternate reality where men and women are not stuck in traditional roles of inequality.
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