Terms & Concepts for September 8 & 15

• androgynous
• androcentrism
• anthropocentric
• backlash
• biological determinism
• confound
• consciousness raising
• co-optation/usurpation (of feminism, among other things)
• difference
• dualism (a.k.a. "binary opposites" and "polar opposites")
• epistemology
• essentialism
• ethnocentrism
• female
• female genital mutilation (a.k.a. "female circumcision" and "infibulation")
• feminine
• feminism
• feminist movement vs. the feminist movement
• feminist theory
• gender
• gender asymmetry
• ghettoization/tokenism
• global feminism
• hegemony
• hierarchy
• hierarchy of oppression
• internalized oppression
• ivory tower
• lesbian continuum
• liberal individualism
• male
• man
• masculine
• matriarchy
• mind-body split
• misogyny
• nature-nurture
• normative power
• Object
• the Other
• patriarchy
• the personal is political
• phallogocentrism
• post-colonialism
• post-modernism
• public-private
• sex
• sex/gender system
• sexism
• sexual double standard
• social constructionism
• social location
• Subject
• "third world women"
• Title VII
• woman
• womanist

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