WOMN 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Reel Injun, Tanya Tagaq, Squaw

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WOMN 1500
• Professor: Dr.Jocelyn Thorpe

Document Summary

Discuss anderson"s aricle in relaion to our key concept. Red girl"s reasoning short ilm learning objecives. To apply the key concept of stereotyping to anderson"s the construcion of a negaive. To gain a deeper understanding of stereotyping by connecing it to other key concepts we have introduced (for example: social construcion, interlocking systems of oppression, feminism, idenity) review: stereotyping (stuart hall) The process of creaing meaning by reducing people (or things) to a few characterisics that are assumed to be ixed or essenial. Reducing meaning that they are not truths. We talked about how stereotyping works to separate what counts as normal from that which is considered abnormal or diferent, and in that way is connected to how power operates in culture. Members of dominant groups are not usually stereotyped; instead, stereotyping is one way that dominance is maintained. Portrayal of a person can jusify how they are treated - negaive or posiive.