Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Botulinum Toxin, Vajazzle, Hijab
11 Apr 2015
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One risk i take is to be recolonized by the sign under which i write, and so it is this risk that i seek to thematize : to challenge something, we have to write in the language of the thing we"re challenging, the risk we take in writing in that language, is that we perpetuate some stereotypes associated with that group, considering the risk of categorizing oneself as lesbian, as female as. Third world= pejorative term: now has negative connotation, must be interrogated, what does it mean to be first or third world, hierarchy present even in the name, reinforces power of the north/ west/ europe. Systems of inclusion and exclusion are key to maintaining power structures: argued we can only know the west by seeing what it isn"t, it isn"t the east, in naming the west and the east, we assert western authority, east= other, unknown, disempowered because excluded from the west, establishes a hierarchy.
