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Terminology1.pptxWomen’s Literature
Terminology for the Semester
1. Literary Canon:
a body of books, narratives and other texts considered to be the most important and influential of a particular time period or place
2. Empowerment:
the process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling one's life and claiming one's rights.
3. Essentialism:
the assumption that people or things have a fixed “nature,” as well as the generalizations that grow from such assumptions (women are more nurturing than men; men are more rational than women)
4. Gazes:
the filter through which we see things based on our gender, or the gender through which art is intended to be seen (usually the gender of the artist) (male gaze, white gaze, straight gaze, etc)
5. Gender Roles:
a range of behaviors and attitudes that are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for people based on their actual or perceived sex or sexuality.
6. Intersectionality:
the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
7. Madonna/Whore Complex:
In sexual politics the view of women as either Madonnas or whores limits women's sexual expression, offering two mutually exclusive ways to construct a sexual identity
8. Metanarrative/Master Narrative
the notion of one historical narrative being central, involving the exclusion or marginalization of oppressed groups
9. Phallocentrism
centering the masculine in construction of meaning, or defining maleness as the center.
10. Patriarchy
a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it.
11. Matriarchy
a system of society or government ruled by a woman or women.
12: Sexism
prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex.
13: Feminism
the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.
