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imperialism  :-- extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. globalization  :-- tendency of businesses, technologies, or philosophies to spread throughout the world, or the process of making this happen centering women as subjects of study  :-- a...

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WGS Midterm #1 Questions and Answers
imperialism


 :-- extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.




globalization


 :-- tendency of businesses, technologies, or philosophies to spread throughout the

world, or the process of making this happen




centering women as subjects of study


 :--




androcentrism


 :-- putting men at the center and relegating women to outsiders in society




trans


 :--




womens movement


 :--




"the personal is political"




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 :-- phrase to explain how things taken personally have broader social, political, and

economic causes and consequences




patriarchy


 :-- a system where men and masculine bodies dominate because power and authority are

in the hands of adult men




intersectionality


 :--




first wave


 :--




second wave and third wave feminist activity and their associated social movement activity and

legal changes


 :-- equal pay act of 1963




definitions of feminism


 :--




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feminist theoretical perspectives (liberal feminism, radical [or cultural/difference] feminism,

lesbian feminism, ecofeminism, Marxist feminism, socialist feminism, global feminism,

transnational feminism, third wave, queer theory)


 :--




postfeminism


 :--




postmodernism


 :--




Define WGS as a discipline. What might its objectives look like?


 :-- WGS is an economic field concerning women, gender, and feminism. WGS

objectives revolve around the academic aspects of gender and its effect on society and

also focus on social change and advocacy




Explain the politics of the movement from women's studies to women's and gender studies.

Why might the "women" still need to be retained?




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 :-- Due to development of the WS field with more emphasis on intersectionality, a

transition from WS to WGS was made in order to account for the fact that the categories

'men' and 'women' were more fluid than most people thought. 'Women' has remained in

the title of WGS because this study originated from WS and it is important to understand

the experiences of living as women.




What came out of the Seneca Falls Convention?


 :-- Declaration of Setiments




Explain in your own words what it means to put women on center as subjects of study. This has

involved two strategies resulting in changes on college campuses. What are these strategies and

their consequences?


 :-- Because curriculum was completely centered around men, education was extremely

unbalanced. The goals of Women's Studies programs was to create classes that were

focused on women in general. The first strategy was re-balancing the curriculum. The

second strategy was transforming traditional knowledge. The traditional ideas of

knowledge were challenged and the consciousness of ideas were heightened.




Be able to explain the founding of women's studies and understand its relationship to

androcentrism in higher education. What is the relationship between women's studies and the

women's movement? What is "mainstreaming"?




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