Terms G-H

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Gay Vogue
Definition: a gay sensibility has infiltrated American comedy, even when under the radar in a heterosexual situation., Author: Raymond, Source: Popular Culture and Queer Representation, Date of Assignment: 2/5/2007, Name: Liz S.

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Gay Winking/Gay Vague
Definition: In present American comedies, gay sensibility is used in subtle manners in heterosexual situations., Author: Raymond, Source: Chapter 10 Popular Culture and Queer Representation, Date of Assignment: 2/5/2007, Name: Melissa M.

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Gay Winking/Gay Vague
Definition: a gay sensibility present in some media programs that allows for multiple readings of a character or situation depending on the subject position of the viewer, Author: Raymond, Source: Popular Culture and Queer Representation, Date of Assignment: 2/5/2007, Name: Amanda G.

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Gender
Definition: The sex of an individual, male or female, based on reproductive anatomy., Author: Moschkovich, Source: 'But I Know You, American Woman', Date of Assignment: 1/29/2007, Name: Katelyn R.

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Gender oppression
Definition: a system of inequality organized around gender categories, Author: Johnson, Source: Patriarchy, the System, Date of Assignment: 2/1/2007, Name: Amanda G.

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Gender oppression
Definition: system of inequality organized around gender categories, Author: Johnson, Source: Patriarchy, The System, Date of Assignment: 2/1/2007, Name: Devon M.

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gender oppression
Definition: a system of inequality organized around gender categories, Author: Johnson, Source: Patriarchy, the System, Date of Assignment: 2/1/2007, Name: Jessica B.

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Gender Oppression
Definition: system of inequality organized around gender categories, we can no more avoid being involved in it than we can avoid being female or male., Author: Johnson, Source: Patriarchy: The System, Date of Assignment: 2/1/2007, Name: Lauren P.

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Genre Criticism
Definition: The study of conventions governing established types of cultural forms., Author: Dines, Source: Gender, Race, and Class in Media, Date of Assignment: 1/29/2007, Name: Katelyn R.

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Habitus
Definition: Term implied by sociologist Pierre Bordieu, which is used to describe that whatever is constructed usually seems to be the natural, unavoidable option., Author: Raymond, Source: Chapter 10 Popular Culture and Queer Representation, Date of Assignment: 2/5/2007, Name: Melissa M.

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Hegemony
Definition: ruling social and cultural forces of domination, Author: Douglas Kellner, Source: Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism, & Media Culture, Date of Assignment: 1/29/2007, Name: Amanda G.

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Hegemony
Definition: This is the method for getting and keeping the overall power and dominance that a social group can have over another. ( such as between nation states or among social classes), Author: Lull, James, Source: Chapter 5 Hegemony, Date of Assignment: 2/8/2007, Name: Melissa M.

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Hegemony
Definition: Power/dominance that a social group holds over others; dominance and subordination in field of relations formed by power., Author: Lull, Source: Hegemony, Date of Assignment: 2/8/2007, Name: Lauren P.

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Hegemony
Definition: The power of a dominant social group gaining and maintaing power over others., Author: Lull, James, Source: Ch. 5, Date of Assignment: 2/9/2007, Name: Kristin C.

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Heritage Keepers
Definition: instructs wives how to “let go of the reins” of marital authority, Author: Ducat, Source: Gender In A Time of Holy War, Date of Assignment: 2/1/2007, Name: Jessica B.

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Heterosexuality
Definition: a “parasitic notion” whose existence depends on the existence of its antithesis, homosexuality, Author: Raymond, Source: Popular Culture and Queer Representation, Date of Assignment: 2/5/2007, Name: Amanda G.

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Homophobia
Definition: When a heterosexual fears and is disgusted by a homosexual person., Author: Dines, Source: 'Popular Culture and Queer Representation...', Date of Assignment: 2/5/2007, Name: Katelyn R.

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Hudood
Definition: The legal code putatively based on the Koran that persecutes women for acts of extramarital sex., Author: Ducat, Source: 'Gender in a Time of Holy War...', Date of Assignment: 2/1/2007, Name: Katelyn R.

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hyperbolic discounting
Definition: An extreme tendency to discount the future., Author: Schor, Source: The Need Politics of Consumption, Date of Assignment: 2/15/2007, Name: Liz S.
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