refuse (a loan or insurance) to someone because they live in an area deemed to be a poor financial risk; a discriminatory practice that consists of the systematic denial of services such as montages, insurance loans, and other financial services to residents of certain areas, based on their race or ethnicity.
Red-Lining
(1990s-2010s) emerged as a reaction to the second wave, emphasizing the diversity, inclusivity, and individual expression, and critiquing second-wave feminism’s perceived lack of racial and economic diversity; characterized by intersectionality, which acknowledges how various forms of oppression (race, class, sexual orientation) overlap; individual expression, challenging traditional femininity and promoting self-definition. Overall, it was to advocate for greater inclusivity and challenge patriarchal norms.
Third wave feminism
movement of people to a new area or country in order to find work or better living conditions; broader term for anyone who moves from one place to another.
Migration
took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, emerging out of an environment of urban industrialism and liberal, socialist politics; the goal of this wave was to open up opportunities for women, with a focus on suffrage; focused on legal rights like suffrage and property ownership. Overall, it was a focus on women’s legal rights, like voting and property rights, which laid out the foundation for later feminist movements.
First wave feminism
(1960s-1980s) broadened the focus to include issues like reproductive rights, workplace equality, and domestic violence; it aimed to change laws and challenge societal norms that limited women’s roles; highlighting the dissatisfaction of many housewives with limited domestic roles. Overall, it sought not only equality under laws, but also in practice and everyday life.
Second wave feminism
the state of being precarious (dangerously likely to fall or collapse) or uncertain; a state of persistent insecurity with regard to employment or income; a state of existence lacking in stability, predictability, and security, especially regarding employment, income, and psychological welfare.
Precarity
a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger; crucial or unstable time where a decisive, and often negative, change is pending.
Crisis
the perspective of a notionally typical heterosexual man considered as embodied in the audience or intended audience for films and other visual media, characterized by a tendency to objectify or sexualize women; a concept in film theory describing how the world and women are depicted from a masculine, heterosexual perspective, often objectifying them as passive objects for male pleasure.
Male Gaze
style, artefacts, or traits considered characteristic of the peoples and cultures of Asia; the western academic and artistic practice of depicting and representing Eastern cultures as exotic, primitive, and inferior to the West.
Orientalism
