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GWSS 200 Final UW Seattle Exam Study
Guide with Complete Solutions
What are the 4 levels of analysis - Answer✔️✔️-micro, meso, maco, global
Define the 4 levels of analysis - Answer✔️✔️-A set of terms used to analyze
relations among individuals or groups which go from personal or
individual perspectives, to local communities' perspectives, to the national
institutional level, to worldwide.
Intersectionality - Answer✔️✔️-Feminist analytic that hows how gender,
class, nation, sexuality, and other social categories interlock to affect
individuals and groups at all levels
Biological determinism - Answer✔️✔️-A theory which holds that a group's
shared phenotype or genetics shape its social, political, and economic
futures.
Gender binary - Answer✔️✔️-The belief that only two genders exist; often
assumes that these two genders are diametrically opposed
Theory - Answer✔️✔️-An explanation of how things are and why they are
the way they are; based on a set of assumptions, holds a perspective, and
serves a purpose.
Consent - Answer✔️✔️-Ensuring the enthusiastic YES from every participant
at each juncture of sexual activity
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Refugees - Answer✔️✔️-People who flee their country due to a well-founded
fear of persecution based on race, religion, or membership in a particular
social group or political opinion, and who are unwilling or unable to return
because of this fear.
Globalization - Answer✔️✔️-Cultural and economic integration facilitated
by the internet, international financial institutions, trade agreements, and
national immigration policies.
intimate partner violence - Answer✔️✔️-Physical violence, sexual violence,
stalking, or psychological harm by a current or former partner or spouse.
This type of violence can occur among heterosexual or same-sex couples
and does not require sexual intimacy.
State violence - Answer✔️✔️-the direct use of coercive, frequently lethal
force in the context of law enforcement and military operations
Eugenics - Answer✔️✔️-The belief that the human race can be "improved"
through selective breeding; linked to racism and ableism.
Reproductive justice - Answer✔️✔️-The connection of reproductive rights to
social and economic justice, with an emphasis on the state's unequal
support of WOC's fertility and infant thriving.
Reproductive rights - Answer✔️✔️-legal pathway to getting an abortion.
Symbolizes a woman's control over her own body
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Medicalization - Answer✔️✔️-The term describes turning normal human
processes, such as pregnancy and menopause, into medical issues, to be
treated only by credentialed professionals, as if they were illnesses.
Meritocracy - Answer✔️✔️-Zero-sum system based on belief that unearned
advantage is a result of individual worth
Second shift - Answer✔️✔️-Describes the responsibilities for household and
child care by someone who also works outside the home; mostly
feminized, which makes it a gender equity issue.
Glass ceiling - Answer✔️✔️-An unseen barrier to women's promotion to
senior positions in the workplace.
pay gap - Answer✔️✔️-Describes the disparity between the median annual
pay of all women who work full time and year-round, compared to the pay
of a similar cohort of men.
Capitalism - Answer✔️✔️-An economic system in which most of the capital
(raw materials, property, people's labor, other means of production), and
the goods these produce, are controlled by individuals or small groups.
Privileges maximum profit.
Biocapacity - Answer✔️✔️-The planet's ability to generate renewable
resources and absorb produced waste.
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