Bernice Johnson Reagon in her essay about Coalition Politics in feminism as something that cannot be done at home-it must be done out in the world. A coalition is a group of people who cooperate and work together for a common cause, or to combat a certain oppression.

Jo Freeman, without organizing, you can’t get anything done/less structured environments breed domination by a select few

Drucilla Barker, Alternative “First/Third World” labels, these denote where the economically more developed and less developed nations & regions are generally located (i.e. Europe, North America, Japan = North; Africa, South America, Southeast Asia = South). These terms also leave room for a broader definition of “developed” than simply referring to places as “[economically] developed,” in that they can also include areas of development such as maternal health and quality of life, thereby ensuring that women’s wellbeing holds a higher position as pivotal to a country’s development.

Drucilla Barker, Any sector of the economy that operates outside official industry laws (i.e. sex workers). Barker talks about this in her chapter on how women within the globalized informal economy are at a disadvantage because they are prevented from fighting for better wages or working conditions, but these economies persist because of their benefit to the globalized economy.

a political vision of reality that divides the East/Orient from the West; portrayals of the Orient used to justify imperialism, such as lazy, asexual men, hypersexualized women, women being kept in harems, etc. (Sunaina Maira, ‘Belly Dancing’) Hawksworth

Ambreen Hai, Looks in film include those of the camera at the set & characters, the audience at the screen, and the characters at each other. Ambreen explained how the look that is most emphasized is that of the characters, as it maintains the film’s illusion of reality most strongly.

Ambreen Hai, In which some dominant ideology is disrupted within the course of a film. Ambreen discussed this film tactic in terms of Fire and Illusions, films that both use transgression as a significant plot device.

concrete policies (not just cultural representations) that reinforce the superior status of whiteness through deliberate, systematic actions such as FHA support for segregation, urban renewal, and countless other policies (George Lipsitz, ‘The Possessive Investment in Whiteness’)

‘Temporary Assistance for Needy Families’: restructuring of welfare under Clinton that cut benefits and claimed to promote work as a solution to poverty; established paternity requirements and forces recipients to work or community service; pushes poor women into the workplace without adequate wages or childcare Baker (in lecture)Needs author.

Jane L. Collins and Victoria Mayer, assumption that a worker must be able to respond flexibly to employer’s needs without requiring training, benefits, parental or sick leave; employers not obligated to support employees in meeting family responsibility; labor involved in social reproduction is considered private responsibility and not compensated (Nancy Folbre, ‘The Nanny State,’ Anne-Marie Slaughter, ‘Why Women Still Can’t Have It All’...?)

non-normative; ‘queer resists intelligibility and identification, claims abjection in order to empower’ (Annamarie Jagose, ‘Queer Theory’)

identity, body, etc. unable to be recognized by society/ one that is able to be recognized by society (Nan Amilla Boyd, ‘Bodies In Motion’)

set of social norms that presume that relationships and attraction are between a man and a woman; also reinforces the gender binary Needs author.

acknowledgement and comfort with by society, other individuals, and institutions of one’s identity; for example the character Pat in SNL’s ‘It’s Pat’ sketches lacked social recognition, making their live ‘unlivable’ in Butler’s terms (Judith Butler, ‘Undoing Gender’)