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WGP EXAM 1 with verified detailed answers || || || || || ||
Legal Equality Doctrine - ✔✔Equality is possible only when the differences
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between men and women are erased by laws that require men and women to be
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treated equally
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Fairness Doctrine - ✔✔consciously recognizes the differences between men
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and women and argues that women will always be disadvantaged if they are not
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somehow compensated for the social, economic and political consequences of
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these differences
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patriarchy - ✔✔the pervasive control men exercise over social, economic and
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political power and resources || || ||
Separate Spheres Ideology - ✔✔because of women's role in reproduction, they
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are best suited to occupy the private sphere of home and family, whereas men
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are designed to occupy the public sphere of work and politics.
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Muller v. Oregon (1908) - ✔✔Case that upheld protective legislation on the
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grounds of women's supposed physical weakness. [Muller allowed women to
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work 10+ hours which was against oregon law. The supreme court declared
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that women's interests were less important than family responsibilities.]
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Formal representation - ✔✔Mechanisms in politics that ensure representation.
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Ex: someone has been given the legal authority to act on my behalf
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Descriptive representation - ✔✔Women representing other women on the basis
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of gender, race, sexuality etc. Not necessarily working their interests -> identity
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ptx.
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symbolic representation - ✔✔Use of symbols to elicit an attitude/emotion. Ex.
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Obama presidency for black Americans -> sometimes calls into question gov't
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legitimacy
Substanitative representation - ✔✔Occurs when women act for other women || || || || || || || || || ||
by pursuing interests FOR women. -> not just the act of being a woman, actual
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policies and actions by those in power.
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"Lean in" Sandberg - ✔✔Sheryl Sandbergs' book "lean in," asserts that Women
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unconsciously hold themselves back and need to actively make an effort to || || || || || || || || || || || ||
change that status quo and sit at the "big table"
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Sexual contract - ✔✔required women to transfer their natural rights to men in
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exchange for protection, thereby leaving women without any independent
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rights to exchange with others in forming a social contract
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androcentrism - ✔✔the practice of overvaluing the male experience and || || || || || || || || || ||
undervaluing the female experience || || ||
Coverture - ✔✔the legal status of a married woman, considered to be under her
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husband's protection and authority. [Women couldnt buy property, dispose of
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assets, or be their own guardian]
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WGP EXAM 1 with verified detailed answers || || || || || ||
Legal Equality Doctrine - ✔✔Equality is possible only when the differences
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between men and women are erased by laws that require men and women to be
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
treated equally
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Fairness Doctrine - ✔✔consciously recognizes the differences between men
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and women and argues that women will always be disadvantaged if they are not
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somehow compensated for the social, economic and political consequences of
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these differences
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patriarchy - ✔✔the pervasive control men exercise over social, economic and
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political power and resources || || ||
Separate Spheres Ideology - ✔✔because of women's role in reproduction, they
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are best suited to occupy the private sphere of home and family, whereas men
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
are designed to occupy the public sphere of work and politics.
|| || || || || || || || || ||
Muller v. Oregon (1908) - ✔✔Case that upheld protective legislation on the
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
grounds of women's supposed physical weakness. [Muller allowed women to
|| || || || || || || || || ||
work 10+ hours which was against oregon law. The supreme court declared
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that women's interests were less important than family responsibilities.]
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Formal representation - ✔✔Mechanisms in politics that ensure representation.
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Ex: someone has been given the legal authority to act on my behalf
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, 2
Descriptive representation - ✔✔Women representing other women on the basis
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of gender, race, sexuality etc. Not necessarily working their interests -> identity
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
ptx.
||
symbolic representation - ✔✔Use of symbols to elicit an attitude/emotion. Ex.
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Obama presidency for black Americans -> sometimes calls into question gov't
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
legitimacy
Substanitative representation - ✔✔Occurs when women act for other women || || || || || || || || || ||
by pursuing interests FOR women. -> not just the act of being a woman, actual
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
policies and actions by those in power.
|| || || || || ||
"Lean in" Sandberg - ✔✔Sheryl Sandbergs' book "lean in," asserts that Women
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
unconsciously hold themselves back and need to actively make an effort to || || || || || || || || || || || ||
change that status quo and sit at the "big table"
|| || || || || || || || ||
Sexual contract - ✔✔required women to transfer their natural rights to men in
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exchange for protection, thereby leaving women without any independent
|| || || || || || || || ||
rights to exchange with others in forming a social contract
|| || || || || || || || ||
androcentrism - ✔✔the practice of overvaluing the male experience and || || || || || || || || || ||
undervaluing the female experience || || ||
Coverture - ✔✔the legal status of a married woman, considered to be under her
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husband's protection and authority. [Women couldnt buy property, dispose of
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assets, or be their own guardian]
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