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🚻Intro to Gender Studies
Key Terms

404 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Gender Studies exam

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Ableism
Ableist assumptions
Abortion services
Affirmative action policies
Affirmative consent
Age discrimination
Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)
Agents of socialization
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP)
Aids crisis
Algorithmic bias
Alternative masculinities
Amartya Sen
American Woman Suffrage Association
Androgen exposure
Angela Davis
Angry black woman
Angry black woman trope
Anti-discrimination laws
Anti-discrimination policies
Anti-globalization feminism
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Asexual
Asexuality
Assistive technologies
Assumed incompetence
Authoritative parenting

B

Bamboo Ceiling
Bathroom bills
Beauty Standards
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
Belém do Pará Convention
Bicultural identity
Bigender
Binary gender norms
Bisexual
Black feminism
Black Feminist Thought
Black women
Body image
Body Image
Body image issues
Body Positivity
Bride price
Bystander intervention

C

Cairo Programme of Action
Campus sexual assault
Care work
Caregiving
Carol Gilligan
CEDAW
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Chicana Feminism
Chicana feminism
Child sexual abuse
Childcare deserts
Childcare subsidies
Chronic Illness
Cisgender
Cisgender individuals
Cisnormativity
Class oppression
Class Privilege
Colorism
Compulsory Heterosexuality
Consent
Content analysis
Controlling Behaviors
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Conversion therapy
Cooperative Economics
Criminalization of same-sex relationships
Crip Theory
Critical Media Literacy