Women's and Gender Studies
Essential Terms

advocate
Affirmative Action
agency
assimilation
authority
capitalism
classism
colonization
community
cooperation
critical consciousness
cultural assimilation
cultural construct
desire
dichotomy
discrimination
diversity
doing gender
dualism
Ecofeminism
egalitarian
empowerment
epistemology
essentialism
ethnicity
female infanticide
feminism
femininity
gender roles
gender/sex
gender bending
gender identity
gender performance
gender scripts
gendered norms
gendered violence
girlie
globalization

hegemonic masculinity
heterosexism
hierarchy
imperialism
incorporated wife
independence
intersecting oppressions
intersectionality
liberation
looksism
machismo
male/female
masculinity
matriarchy
matriarchal
marianismo
misogyny
nature/ nurture
negotiating identities
normalized
nuclear family
objective/subjective
objective reality
objectification
oppression
othering
pacifism
paradigm
patriarchal capitalism
patriarchy
pedagogy
phallocentric
polygamy
power
prejudice
privilege
private sphere/
   public sphere

race
resistance
sex
sexual harassment
sexual orientation
sexual violence
sexism
sexuality
social justice
social norms
socialization
stereotype
systems of oppression
technology
theory
title ix
transformation
validity/reliability
vindication
vision
wage gap
white entitlement
Women’s Studies