UNIT 1 TEST REVIEW Flashcards
(52 cards)
Feminist Analysis
Feminist criticism is concerned with “the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic,
political, social, and psychological oppression of women”
This school of theory looks at how aspects of our culture are
inherently patriarchal (male dominated) and aims to expose misogyny in writing about women, which can take explicit and implicit
forms.
Postcolonial Theory
Specifically, post-colonial critics are concerned with literature produced by colonial powers and works produced by
those who were/are colonized. Post-colonial theory looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion, and culture and how these
elements work in relation to colonial hegemony (Western colonizers controlling the colonized).
Anti-Colonialism
Analyses the hsitory of colonialism and its impact on colonozised people whiel focusing on power in poltics, economic, religon, culture in realtion to colonial domincance
Critical Disability Theory
Disability studies considers disability in political, aesthetic, ethical, and cultural contexts, among others. In literature, many critics
examine works to understand how representations of disability and “normal” bodies change throughout history, including the ways both
are defined within the limits of historical or cultural situations. Disability studies also investigates images and descriptions of disability,
prejudice against people with disabilities (ableism), and the ways narrative relates to disability
Indigenous Knowledge Approach
Indiegnous knowledge apprach uses Indiegnous cultures, values, ways of thinking to analyise equity and socila justice issues and the system as a whole.
CRT
Critical Race Theory, or CRT, is a theoretical and interpretive mode that examines the appearance of race and racism across dominant
cultural modes of expression. In adopting this approach, CRT scholars attempt to understand how victims of systemic racism are
affected by cultural perceptions of race and how they are able to represent themselves to counter prejudice.
Postmodernism
A way of thinkign of culture art adn others, belivei that there is no real truth, knowledge is never discovered it is made, langaueg is unstable is conveyign fixed truth or meanings and cahllanges that langauge can represnt truth
Anti-Oppression Theory
Identifyign and dadress systmatic imbalences and aims to make a inclusive atmos[here, by adressing those who ahev power and those who do not
Theoretical and Research Approaches
Postmodernism
Anti-Oppression Theory
Feminist Analysis
Critical Race Theory
Critical Disability Theory
Postcolonial Theory and Anti-Colonialism
Indigenous Knowledge Approach
Social Construction
Social Construction of Race
Judith Butler
George Dei
Jacques Derrida
Michel Foucault
Bell hooks
Karl Marx
Judith Butler
- An American philospher
belivied gender isn’t something we’re born with but something we learn by repeating certain behaviours ex, saying “its a boy” “its a girl”, “you’re so pretty” etc
people act in ways that fit society’s ideas of “male” or “female,”
Butler says these roles are actually created by society.
our identity, including gender, can change and isn’t fixed.
George Dei
- a professor at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He is known for his anti-racist research, particularly on anti-racist approaches to education
-Belivied a way to understand our relationship with each other
How identity is understood by society after colonialism
How gender, class, sexuality and ethnicity influence teaching and learning
Jacques Derrida
-Jacques Derrida was one of the most well known twentieth century philosophers.
The theory has two aspects, both literary and philosophical
Literary aspects discuss textual formatting and interpretations
Stating that invention and ideas are needed to find different meanings in the text
The philosophical aspect concerns the main goals of said deconstruction
He says that metaphysics affects the whole of philosophy from plato onwards.
Michel Foucault
-Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher.
knowledge and power shape our understanding of reality
we consider to be “truth” or “knowledge” is created through social processes and power dynamics
institutions and social structures influence and control what is accepted as knowledge
Bell hooks
-Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author, theorist, educator, and social critic who was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. She was best known for her writings on race, feminism, and class.
-A woman’s race, political history, social position and economic worth to her society are some of the factors that comprise her value but do not consider the totality of her life and her freedom
Social equality gives people the right to shape their futures which can only be complete when our world is not sexist and racist
- Made the book “Ain’t I A Woman” which remains a radical and relevant work of political theory. hooks lays the groundwork of her feminist theory by giving historical evidence of the specific sexism that black female slaves endured and how that legacy affects black womanhood today.
-Hooks said the origins of the white feminist movement for its racist and classist treatment of African-American women and repudiates its goals of imitating the power structure of white patriarchy.
Social Construction of Race
99.99% of all human gentics are teh same, there is a small difference. race is a social construct, we are all very similar.
Karl Marx
-Karls theory was Marxism
-Marxism had four parts; the materlist apprach to history, social classes and they divide society, the dialectical apprach to historical chnage, and the final one was the comitment to socialism
Marxism was adopted by the communist party of Canada
Intersectionality
General information on intersectionality
Transmormon video
Hidden Figures worksheet
Social and Cultural Belief Systems
General information on intersectionality
Intersectionality promotes an understanding of human beings as shaped by the interaction of different social locations (e.g., ‘race’/ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, geography, age, disability/ability, migration status, religion).
These interactions occur within a context of connected systems and structures of power (e.g., laws, policies, state governments and other political and economic unions, religious institutions, media).
Through such processes, interdependent forms of privilege and oppression shaped by ageism, transphobia, racism, homophobia, ableism and patriarchy are created.
Transmormon video
- Eri is a trangender woman
- Eri was mormon so she did not knwo what transgender was necause she was either homeschool or or in a mormon private schoo
-Eri felt she wasn’t enough because her sister was getting all the attention, and she didn’t feel like a real girl
Hidden Figures worksheet
Katherine Gobel had many intersecting social locations which brought barriers to her carrer and life, she was a Black woman, a single parent with two kids. Her race and sex affected her job oppurntuneis and how she was treated in the workplace and her being a single parent affected hwo mcuh time she could spend at work while mainting a relaitonship with her childern.
Social and Cultural Belief Systems
-Our belief systems can influence ones postion of social justice, how you grow yup, your own belif system, the perceptions of indivduals around you
Legislation
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Ontario Human Rights Code
Ontario’s Environmental Bill of Rights
Same Sex Marriage Case Study
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Created by the United Nations (UN)
Written on 1948
Stands for same rights that Canadian Charter does
Freedoms of thought, religion etc.
Charter was strongly influenced by it – except Charter contains more Canadian focused issues
