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Common Terms

As you move through your Women's Studies cross-listed courses, it's important to think about what terms and ideas you might carry from class to class. Listening for these terms—or thinking about how they might be applied—as you move into courses in different disciplines will help to make your Women's Studies learning experience more cohesive.

  • Androcentrism
  • Intersectionality
  • Heteronormativity
  • Essentialism
  • Socialization
  • Constructionism
  • Agency
  • Structure
  • Empowerment
  • Sexual Identity
  • Gender Identity
  • Patriarchy
  • Feminism
  • Objectification
  • Subjectivity
  • "Mind/Body" Split
  • Appropriation
  • Embodiment
  • Sexism
  • Heterosexism
  • Privilege
  • Refusing to take the path of least resistance
It will also be helpful for you to think about how you can apply your knowledge of the "waves" of feminism to help organize events, ideas, activists, theorists, events, and methods for activism (particularly when talking about contemporary U.S. feminist movements).

  • First Wave Feminism
  • Second Wave Feminism
  • Third Wave Feminism

If you've never thought about feminism in "waves," it may be useful for you to check out Rory Dicker's A History of U.S. Feminisms (2008), one of the textbooks used in WMST 1101.

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