WGS 101- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 90 pages long!)

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS 101
• Professor: Bufalino, Jamie

Document Summary

Counter-hegemonic: challenges legitimacy of existing power structures in politics, economics, culture, education, etc. Hegemony: dominance in a nation, culture, or system. Influenced by freedom struggles of oppressed groups. Seeks to identify, understand and challenged inequality, especially but not solely gender-based. A system of deeply-held beliefs shared by group of people of society. Patriarchy: systematic organization of male privilege in a society. Feminism: movements and theories dedicated to ending inequalities based on gender. Establishes a binary as basis for social roles. Historically contingent: changes over time and across cultures. Sex: visible difference of physiology, anatomy and genitalia. Categorize people as either female, male or interex. Gender: learned behaviors and performance of socially constructed categories of women and men . Sexuality: who you are attracted to, also to certain behaviors, identities and politics. Gender identity: how you feel, understand your relationship to gender, your identification. Dominany categories: man, woman, intesex, cisgender, trangender, or not any of the above.