WST100
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- What is Engel's Theory?
- gender and equality orginates with the creation of private property.
- what is the materialst reproduction theory?
- patriarchies stay in power by controlling women's sexuality and reproduction.
- What are the historical ideas about women?
- Women are 1) responsible for downfall of humankind 2) inferior to men 3) like children 3) good or bad based on sexuality 4)evil 5) virgin/whore dichotomy 6) incomplete men
- What are the separate spheres?
- men generally belong in the public world of work; women in the private world at home.
- "true womanhood" and its qualities
- new qualities for women (white, mc) 1) materialism 2)spirituality/moral 3) passionless (sexual) 4) submissive
- Republican motherhood
- women in childcare only now. education started for women so they could educate.
- what is coverture?
- the husband and wife are one person under the law; the existance of woman is suspended during the marriage and she performs everything under his protection.
- New Woman
- the new college educated women and coverture disappears
- Qualities of the New Woman
- 1) self supporting 2) college educated 3) 50% never marry
- when did women gain the right to vote?
- 1920
- what are flappers?
- women with no corset, makeup, skirts, smoked, sex, bars, etc
- Who is Rosie the Riveter?
- women who was hired to do a man's job for equal pay during WWII. was fired after the war.
- Feminine mystique...by, about
- Betty Friedan, the problems that housewives faced.
- John Berger says
- men ACT and women APPEAR
- what is objectification?
- turning someone/group into an object or something less than human
- objectification is the first step toward..
- promoting violence
- objectification depends on
- the male gaze
- the male gaze:
- the assumptions made by creators of popular images
- men are _____ and have a _______ view of women
- viewers, narrow
- pornography
- sexualized images that's designed to arouse
- softcore examples
- playboy, maxim, --simulated sex acts; nude but no close ups
- hardcore
- maxim; movies
- loose women
- without corsets, etc
- how the body is gendered
- lowered eyes, posture, keep mouth shut, repress bodily hunger diet exercise cosmetic surgery, stiletto heels
- Ways Patriarchies have disciplined the female body
-
1) footbinding
2) female genital mutilation
3) veiling
4) corset - what is the beauty myth?
- our culture values looks- to be successful, you must be beautiful.
- body project
- b/c of beauty, women's #1 goal is trying to create the perfect body
- what about medieval fasting women is different?
- they did it spiritually
- eating disorders started
- 1970s in young MC white women
- How many have eating disorders?
- 1/5
- how many are at high risk of eating disorders?
- 4/5
- chief cause of eating disorders
- popular culture
- anorexia
- food refusal
- calories for anorexia
- 200-300 cal/day
- Karen Carpenter
- died from anorexia in 1983
- you have anorexia if
- loss of more than 25% of body weight, disrubance of body image, refusal to maintian body weight, fear of being fat, loss menstrual cycle
- effects of starvation
- apathy, depression, cant function in society (agorophobia), psychosis, physical damage
- bulimia
- binge and purge syndrome
- Jane Fonda
- had bulimia
- __% of college women have anorexia
- 20
- ___-___% of anorexics are women
- 90, 95
- up to ___% of people die from eating disorders (___#____)
- 19, 150000
- women use ______ to help them binge
- ipecac syrup
- a super model aka
- a heroin chic
- 3 models of causation
- 1) biomedical 2) psychological model 3) cultural model
- biomedical
- organic/medical reasons ex: dysfunction of hypothalamus
- psychological model
-
a psychological component
ex: 1) pathological response to the development crisis of adolescents
2) obsessive compulsive disorder
3) addiction to starvation model - cultural model
- cultural imperative for thinness of women encouraged by cultural images (THIS IS MOST IMPORTANT ONE)
- ___% of 4th grade girls are dieting
- 80