GWS 10 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: National Geographic Society, Print Culture, Voyeurism

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Gender And Women's Studies
• Course: GWS 10
• Professor: Barbara Barnes

Document Summary

Gws 10 national geographic society and magazine: technologies of nationalism, race, and. Theorists of nationalism argue that the spread of print culture during the early 1800s in europe was central to constituting new national identities by providing a common language that enabled people to form collective identities. However, this process is also inflected by distinct gender representations that are peculiar to a national tradition in the us. Argument: national geographic used a discourse of nationalism, empire, and white male heroism to justify its own identity and install itself as an authoritative medium of cultural communication. This established a context for national geographic"s more recent practices of exclusion of women and people of color. The construction of the national geographic as an authorized purveyor of knowledge. Alexander graham bell the inventor of the telephone was the 2nd president of the national.