CHICANO 10B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intersectionality, Chauvinism
4 Feb 2018
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A set of beliefs, values, attitudes, and practices that sustain and reproduce the inequalities, discrimination, exclusion and oppression of women. It manifests through the ideas and actions of people and institutions: the family, religions, school/education, media/modes of communication. Sexism is both discrimination based on gender and the attitudes, stereotypes, and institutions that promote this discrimination. Having to be in charge of all or most of the house work. Earning a lower salary and experiencing discrimination in the workplace. Feeling obligated to give up interest, aspirations, dreams, and desires. Being intimidated or threatened by a man in order to make a female do something. Being sexually harassed on the street, at work, at school, on the bus, and/or at home. Being controlled in every aspect of life (where you go, what you do, how you dress, who you go our with, who you speak with) These institutions are instruments that we use to reproduce ideas about gender and power.
