WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Massachusetts College Of Art And Design, Size 14, Fashion Doll
22 Jun 2013
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One important area where women and gender studies has done a lot of critical work: cultural representation. By this i mean an investigation of the ways in which gendered identities are constituted through systems of representation. Let us begin by thinking broadly about this term representation (ask class what it means) One way of thinking about this definition is that it implies that there is an original out there, beyond representation, a faithful copy. But there is another way to approach this. When we think of communication, we think of a language, and the obvious assumption is that it is either written or spoken. But for this to work, for that language to create and fix a particular meaning so it seems inevitable or natural, we must in a sense share the same way of interpreting the signs of a language.
