Authors
This author suggested the use of political-economic theory to better understand gendered realities.
Who is Micaela Di Leonardo?
This school of thought, very famously utilized by Levi-Strauss, believes that cultural aspects can be recognized in patterns that share a common universal.
What is structuralism?
This decade is when poststructuralism became increasingly popular among philosophers, social scientists, and anthropologists.
When is the 1970s?
This author believed that Marx's explanation of sexuality and capitalism did not fully explain sexual repression.
Who is Michel Foucault?
This theoretical approach questions history, knowledge, truth, and objectivity, while using small narratives (not grand theory).
What is postmodernism?
This is the phrase that Stoler used to describe the hysteria surrounding men of color assaulting white women.
What is "Black Peril?"
This author argued that "actual power" comes from symbols (e.g. media) that legitimize subjugation.
Who is Pierre Bourdieu?
This theoretical framework questions foundations of past knowledge (especially of the Victorian era) and looks to find order in chaos.
What is modernism?
Often used in anthropology, these "material and verbal traces left by history" have no single author or origin.
What is discourse?
This author argued that sexism in Colonial Europe was both necessary and important in the formation of colonial racism and imperialism.
Who is Ann L. Stoler?
This theoretical approach emphasizes that knowledge or aspects of culture are not "fixed" and are always changing based on cultural, political, social, and economic positions.
What is poststructuralism?
In her article, Stoler is in dialogue with postcolinalism. This postcolonial thinker coined the term "Orientalism."
Who is Edward Said?
This author was in dialogue with Freud, and his ideas about sexuality.
Who is Michel Foucault?
This method (often used by poststructuralists) analyzes things such as text, photography, paintings, cartoons, architecture, music, dance, etc. to determine the motivation behind certain behaviors or practices.
What is discourse analysis?
Michel Foucault discussed this prison design that featured prison cells surrounding a guard tower. The prisoners could not tell if the guard was present, so they began to behave regardless of the guard being there or not.
What is Panopticon?