WMST 101: Exam 2
La Operación
The US-imposed sterilization policies in Puerto Rico, exploring the mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women during the 1950s and 1960s
Meritocracy
holding of power by people selected on the basis of their ability
Socialization
"Socialization is a lifelong process of social interactions through which individuals acquire a self identity and the physical, mental, and social skills needed for survival in society."
Birdcage metaphor
Marilyn Frye. That women are stuck inside of a birdcage of our own. She takes a common occurence, such an men holding the door for women, and implies that this is only one wire of the entire birdcage.
Sterilization
Medical process by which the ability to have children has been taken away.
Contraception of some sort has been used by humans since what year?
1850 BCE
Poetry
A form of expression for people of color
Ally
A heterosexual person who supports equal civil rights, gender equality, LGBT social movements, and challenges homophobia, biphobia and transphobia
Institution
A mechanism of social order. They govern the behavior of individuals for a social purpose by mediating rules.
Disability
A physical or mental condition that limits a person's movements, senses, or activities
Power
Ability to influence and access resources that are provided by authority, force, strength, control, usually separated as economic/cultural
Work
Activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.
SPENT
An online challenge providing an example of the difficulties of being a single parent, with little savings, after losing one's job.
Hobby lobby vs Burell
Be fired if using birth control and sex outside of marriage, ex. Pill, IBF,IUD
When does gender socialization begin?
Before birth
"Choice"
Being given the choice of what to do and what not to do with your body.
What is the difference between being color blind versus being color brave?
Color blind= being negligent towards race, looking past the issue avoiding awkward conversation. Color brave= race acceptance, accept cultural differences, being able to acknowledge there is issues and discuss them.
Consider the different forms of reproductive violence. Give at least two examples and explain which groups each form of violence are committed against.
Different forms of reproductive violence=1)Forced sterilization, 2)forced pregnancy, 3) forced abortion, 4) Rape To have a child, to not have a child, to parent a child * Coercion-convincing someone to have a child, forcing them to keep
Ableism
Discrimination or favoritism towards those who are able-bodied or without physical or mental handicaps.
Housework
Domestic, unpaid labour typically performed by women.
Title X
Federal funding that helps ensure that every person regardless of their background has access to basic preventive reproductive care
Human Difference v. Human Deviance
H.difference-characteristics that distinguish between individuals and groups, based on their social/cultural experiences. Deviance- Action or behavior that violates social
Prejudice
Hostile attitude
Intersectionality- Positionality
How a person occupies multiple social positions that shape their experiences.
Gender Expression "doing gender"
How you demonstrate your gender. By the way you act, dress, behave and interact. All are culturally and socially constructed. Stereotyping and social roles.
Transgender
Identifying with a gender outside of the one you were assigned at birth.
Cisgender
Identifying with the gender you were assigned at birth.
Willis Lynch
Man who was sterilized without consent. Lynch was viewed by the state as unfit to parent and was forced into sterilization
Birth Control
Methods by which to prevent pregnancy.
Double Consciousness/ Internalized Oppression
Oppressed groups have the ability of seeing themselves through two lenses: societies and their own self's. Therefore, they might consider themselves inferior because the public
oppression
Oppression is the inequitable use of authority, law, or physical force to prevent others from being free or equal.
Peggy McIntosh
Senior Research scientist and Associate Director of Wellesley Center for women Founder of the National S.E.E.D (Seeking Education Equality and Diversity) program
Loretta Ross
She served as a National Co-Director of the March for Women's Lives in D.C. Launched NOW in 1980s. Was Sterilized after giving birth was raped within her family.
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Signed into law by president Barack Obama. Act allows worker protections against pay discrimination
invisibility
Social invisibility is the subjective experience of being unseen by others in a social environment. A sense of disconnectedness from the surrounding world is often experienced by invisible people.
Patriarchy
Society awards males greater levels of economic power, influence, prestige
Does biological sex relate to gender identity? Why or why not?
Society creates sex with gender identity, can be one sex but different identity. No, individuals don't identify with gender stereotypes. They could biologically be a woman but identify as male due to not agreeing with the gender stereotypes.
Color brave
State of accepting the differences between people on the notion of race and seeing such as characteristic outside of ability.
SNAP
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Hobby Lobby V Burwell (2013)
Supreme court case allowing businesses to fire women for using birth control, having an abortion, etc.
Racism
System of power and privilege, rooted in societies structure
TANF
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Wealth Gap
The disparity between the assets managed by different groups. These include property, savings, 401k and subtracting all debts and loans. Caused by income inequalities among other societal issues.
pay gap
The disparity between what a white male and other groups earn in the same profession with equitable education. Generally described as the percent a group will earn to the white male dolar.
Colorblind
The false notion of not being prejudiced against people of color, while simultaneously doing nothing for them.
Pay Equity
The idea of equal pay for equal work. Generally opposed by men thinking it means their pay will be reduced, though it is meant to the increase in wages for other groups.
Motherhood
The position of caring for and raising a child associated with women.
Resistance
The refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument.
Biological Sex
The sex associated with ones chromosomes. Generally identified as being XX or XY.
White Privilege
The systematic benefits provided to a person of caucasian descent. These may include not fearing the police, or access to loans and mortgages.
#LikeAGirl
Video. "like a girl" from an insult to a total compliment
Invisible Knapsack
a set of privileges and practices that white people carry around with them that largely protect them from everyday injustices. Peggy McIntosh.
Social Security
any government system that provides monetary assistance to people with an inadequate or no income.
Heterosexism
discrimination or prejudice against homosexuals on the assumption that heterosexuality is the normal sexual orientation.
Elise Roy
inclusive design strategist who helps companies analyze problems from the vantage point of people with disabilities. She believes strongly that the unique experiences of people with disabilities help uncover hidden needs wherein the most innovative solutions are often found
oppression
is the inequitable use of authority, law, or physical force to prevent others from being free or equal.
Sexual Health/LiteracySexual
literacy is the knowledge needed to protect one's own sexual health. They are both needed to have access to and choose safe and affordable options
Control
maintain influence or authority over/the power to influence or direct people's behavior or the course of events
Obliviousness
not being aware of or not being concerned about what is happening around one.
Informed Consent
permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with full knowledge of the possible risks and benefits.
Population Control
policy of attempting to limit the growth in numbers of a population, in poor or densely populated parts of the world, by programs of contraception or sterilization.
Poverty
poverty is defined to the standard of living as compared to the economic standards of living for other people within the surrounding
Privilege
principle/condition of enjoying special rights or immunities
Actual poverty
refer to the poverty conditions where an individual cannot meet the most basic commodities to sustain life and other normal activities.
Class Privilege
revolves around our access to resources like money. People within different social classes share a number of characteristics.
Reproductive Violence
s threats or acts of violence against a partner's reproductive health or reproductive decision-making and is a collection of behaviors intended to pressure or coerce a partner into initiating, keeping, or terminating a pregnancy.
Mellody Hobson
she was mistaken for a member of the wait staff at a 2006 luncheon she was throwing for a friend who was running for Senate.. 'Color Brave'
Define Patriarchy and explain the ways in which it affects our society through the wages that men and women earn.
society that values men over women. sexism (men vs women) vs patriarchy (political power/social power/).
Reproductive Justice
the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.
Ideology
the ideas and manner of thinking characteristic of a group, social class, or individual
Discrimination
the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
In what ways are physically and mentally disabled women discriminated against in terms of their sexuality, access to services, and ability to parent?
they're targeted for forced sterilization .They are assumed to not be sexually active so they are not provided sex ed and have limited access to birth control. -mental- education for special needs and willingness to explain things more detailed. -Disproportionately face sexual violence
