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Bring identity exercise, read white privilege by thursday. Elevation of the masculine conceptually and physically to the level to the universal and ideal. The valuing of men above women, the male principle above the female principle. Phallocentrism- a feminist term referring to the honoring of the male and the male principle as phallic worship. Located in the idea that male identity is expressed through genital sexuality. The male symbol is the symbol of mars, god of war. The female symbol is the symbol of venus, goddess of love. 1978 edward said wrote an essay called orientalism . He began new area of academic inquiry colonial discourse analysis . Orientalism focused on the variety of textual forms in which the west produced and codified knowledge about non metropolitan areas and cultures especially those under colonial control. Postcolonial s used to signify a position against imperialism and eurocentrism.
