SOSC 1502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sunless Tanning, Jiwani, Burqa
12 Mar 2014
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Week 4: power & representation iii: racialized gendered others. Readings: williamson, woman is an island (g&k) Economically we need the other even as politically we seek to eliminate it. Holiday advertisements offer us the rest of the world in commodity form, always represented as. All the images of otherness have as their referent an actual otherness which was and is still being. We seek to naturalize our own power structures in the mirror of natural life as pictured outside. The other is pictured less ambiguously and its capture proclaimed more triumphantly. Bringing the other together with the known. Tradition of a different culture appears as the modern achievement of our own. Lutz & collins, excerpts from reading national geographic (g&k) Our own supposed natural and universal qualities. To have something different captive in our midst reassures us of the liberality of our own system and. Now deep suntan means leisure and pale means inside doing work all the time.
