GWSS 262 Study Guide - Final Guide: Libido, Sexual Dysfunction, Xenophobia
26 Jun 2018
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GWSS 262 – FINAL NOTES PT 1
VOCABULARY:
1) HBCU
-Historically black colleges and universities
2) semiotic/semiotics
-study of signs
-“in the semiotic system and cultural practice of fashion, what one chooses to wear in
the public sphere – in the realm of the visible – is subject to scrutiny, deconstruction,
and judgment”
3) transcendent
-above or beyond the limits of ordinary experience
-“one might read Williams’ assigned super-hero status as freakish or aberrant among
her peers, rather than superior or transcendent to them”
4) corporeal/corporeally
-having a, or relating to, the body
-“strength, corporeally symbolized by a well-defined, stable muscularity, is culturally
understood as a masculine trait and hence positioned outside what is considered
natural for women”
5) rhetorical strategies
-a strategy of using language, written or verbal, in effective and often persuasive ways
-“rhetorical strategies, however, continue to stigmatize and marginalize Williams’
femininity in ways that clarify the boundaries and reassert the dominance of that
center”
6) licentious
-lacking moral, especially sexual restraint
-showing no regard for rules of propriety
-“one stereotype that has significantly plagued African American women is that of the
sexually loose and licentious character”
7) gender identity
-our own internal understanding of gender
8) gender expression
-the varying ways we express our gender through the ways we dress, style our hair,
pronouns we use, name we choose o be called, etc.
9) transgender
-a person’s gender identity and gender roles don’t correspond with their birth sex
10) quiescent
-causing no trouble
-marked by inactivity
11) emasculate
-To make a person weak or ineffective
-To deprive a man of its male identity
12) Tacit
-Unspoken, understood, implied without being stated
13) Jingoism
-Extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy
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Document Summary
Historically black colleges and universities: semiotic/semiotics study of signs. In the semiotic system and cultural practice of fashion, what one chooses to wear in the public sphere in the realm of the visible is subject to scrutiny, deconstruction, and judgment . 3) transcendent above or beyond the limits of ordinary experience. One might read williams" assigned super-hero status as freakish or aberrant among her peers, rather than superior or transcendent to them : corporeal/corporeally having a, or relating to, the body. Rhetorical strategies, however, continue to stigmatize and marginalize williams" femininity in ways that clarify the boundaries and reassert the dominance of that center . 6) licentious lacking moral, especially sexual restraint showing no regard for rules of propriety. 9) transgender a person"s gender identity and gender roles don"t correspond with their birth sex: quiescent causing no trouble. To make a person weak or ineffective. To deprive a man of its male identity: tacit.
