WS 100 Study Guide for Exam II
Terminology

images of beauty
nature v culture
contamination
anorexia nervosa
buliema
assimilated
good health
breast cancer
medicalization
eugenics
abortion
family
junior partner / senior partner
class contradictions in Mothering
unpaid domestic labor
horizontal segregation
vertical segregation
pink collar worker
glass ceiling
biological determinalism
sexual harassment
job flirt


Quotes

____________ So long as clothing was made at home, the dimensions of the garment could be adjusted to the particular body intended to wear it. But with store-bought clothes, the body had to fit instantaneously into standard sizes that were constructed from a pattern representing a norm.

____________ There was a special intensity about breasts because of the attitudes of doctors, mothers, and advertisers, all of whom considered breast development critical to adult female identity and success.

____________ Street guys would brag (“I’m a three-pad man”) or answer praise from a buddy (“Man, you lookin’ good!) by giving fives and saying, “Yeah, man, I’m on the rag!”

____________ Our activism is directed at our most visible “oppressors”–the media and entertainment industries. Rather than holding marches or rallies, many young women create zines, websites, music, films and videos that counter images we deem insulting or dangerous.

____________ I see little girls with their hair in braids and Senegalese twists sporting cute little T-shirts that say HAPPY TO BE NAPPY and I get teary-eyed.

____________ Not that they were dragged kicking and screaming to the doctor’s office; no, they were coerced and shamed into [having a nose job].

____________ After all, we live in a system that makes it difficult for women to earn as much money in jobs that don’t involve their beauty or their sexuality.

____________ The prospective wife and mother is kept in complete ignorance of her only asset in the competitive field–sex.

____________ Thus Dante’s motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage [:]”Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.”

____________ Dichotomies of the moralized poles of the good virtuous mother and the evil neglectful one are carefully maintained in the public imagination and in public policies.

____________ The central question is whether management thinks of lower-wage workers as important to their companies, and therefore deserving of benefits.

____________ My choices were discouragingly simple: either survive graduate school and work in academia, or risk being swallowed up into a black hole of McJobdom and losing the security and prospects of my middle-class upbringing.

____________ Women, men, and feminism must redirect the profit motive, confront the widening gap between the wealthy and the underclasses, and produce options beyond the present corporate model.

____________ Temporaries, like many service workers, were expected to smile whether or not they were particularly happy . . .

____________ Agency representatives often infantilize the workers, diminishing the significance of their complaints, their capability to read situations correctly, and their ability to take constructive action. They are seen as hysterical, overreacting, or oversensitive women . . .