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  2. Patriarchy - Wikipedia

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    Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of authority are primarily held by men. The term patriarchy is used both in anthropology to describe a family or clan controlled by the father or eldest male or group of males, and in feminist theory to describe a broader social structure in which men as a group dominate society. [1] [2] [3]

  3. Triple oppression - Wikipedia

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    Pauli Murray coined the term Jane Crow in 1947 to highlight that gender-based oppression, drawn from her own experiences at Howard University. [22] Jane Crow was coined as a metaphor for the Jim Crow laws , which were state and local regulations enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation and targeted ...

  4. Compulsory heterosexuality - Wikipedia

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    The idea states that male dominance in a patriarchal society is a major factor in enforcing compulsory female heterosexuality; [1] that, in order to serve men's needs, heterosexuality requires men to force women into heterosexual relationships and marriage under a patriarchal society. [9]

  5. Internalized sexism - Wikipedia

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    Internalized sexism has the potential to lead to body issues and a lack of self-confidence. [3] It is a major setback in resolving issues of sexism as a whole. [4] Ties to psychological distress such as anxious, depressive or somatic symptoms, have been identified as results of internalized sexism.

  6. Feminism - Wikipedia

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    Feminism in psychology emerged as a critique of the dominant male outlook on psychological research where only male perspectives were studied with all male subjects. As women earned doctorates in psychology, women and their issues were introduced as legitimate topics of study.

  7. Allan G. Johnson - Wikipedia

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    Allan G. Johnson (1946–2017) was an American writer and public speaker who worked in the fields of sociology and gender studies. One of his nonfiction works is The Gender Knot: Unraveling our Patriarchal Legacy, about the detrimental effects of the patriarchy.

  8. The personal is political - Wikipedia

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    Both third-wave feminism and postfeminism hold the argument of "the personal is political" as central to their beliefs, "the second-wave' understanding of 'the personal is political' quickly evolved away from its explanatory and analytical power to become a prescription for feminism living—a shift that ultimately collapsed the terms together."

  9. Sociology - Wikipedia

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    The term "economic sociology" was first used by William Stanley Jevons in 1879, later to be coined in the works of Durkheim, Weber, and Simmel between 1890 and 1920. [136] Economic sociology arose as a new approach to the analysis of economic phenomena, emphasizing class relations and modernity as a philosophical concept.