Postcolonialism
Feminism
Psychoanalytic theory
Marxist Theory
Archetypal/ Jungian Theory
Gender/ Queer Theory
100
His book Orientalism, published in 1978, explores the concept of the postcolonial theory.
Who is Edward Said?
100
This author of The Feminine Mystique once said "men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.”
Who is Betty Friedan?
100
He developed key concepts such as the unconscious, id, ego, and superego. He is known for his theories of psychosexual development, dream analysis, and the structure of personality.
Who is Freud?
100
Who is Karl Marx?
100
He believed that the psyche, one’s total personality, was made of personal experience and pre-personal and common traits.
Who is Carl Jung?
100
She wrote the book Gender Trouble which introduced the idea of gender performativity.
Who is Judith Butler?
200
In Postcolonial theory, this means "to treat a person, or a group of people, as intrinsically different or alien than the dominant culture."
What is "othering?"
200
In her work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, written in 1792, she states "strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
200
This part of the psyche contains innate biological instincts and desires.
What is the Id?
200
Marxism centers around conflict between working class and this.
What is the capitalist class (or bourgeoisie)?
200
This is the part of the mind containing memories and impulses of which the individual is not aware and originating in the inherited structure of the brain. This part of the mind holds the structure of archetypes and is shared throughout of all humanity.
What is the collective unconscious?
200
This theory examines the elements of literature, art, media, and society that exist outside the constructs of heteronormativity.
What is Queer Theory?
300
The dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland.
What is a diaspora?
300
This wave of feminism was inspired by the civil rights movement and protests against the Vietnam War. These feminists called for a reevaluation of traditional gender roles in society and an end to sexist discrimination.
What is Second Wave feminism?
300
Freud believed that these are the window to the unconscious, where repressed desires and conflicts are expressed through symbols.
What are dreams?
300
The state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or be involved, or in Marxist theory, a condition of workers in a capitalist economy resulting in a lack of their sense of self as they are treated as commodities.
What is alienation?
300
These are pre-personal common traits found amongst people of all cultures that are revealed by the arrangements produced in consciousness through symbolic imagery.
What are archetypes?
300
In The History of Sexuality, this theorist examined the evolution of sexuality and power relations.
Who is Michel Foucault?
400
In postcolonial theory, the subaltern are the colonial populations who are socially, politically, and geographically excluded from the hierarchy of power of an imperial colony. They belong to this social class.
What is the lower class?
400
This movement of feminism focuses on achieving gender equality through the political and legal reform informed by human rights perspective.
What is Liberal Feminism?
400
This is the moral conscience, which incorporates societal values and norms.
What is the superego?
400
In order for the Marxist goal of a "classless" society to be achieved, this class must rise against the capitalist class?
What is the proletariat (also working class)?
400
In literature, this archetype can reflect the dark aspects of either an individual character or a larger group of characters.
What is the Shadow?
400
When a character's sexual orientation or gender fluidity is implied by significant subtext without being stated outright.
What is "queer-coding?"
500
The centering Western standards of belief, class, and beauty as the norm.
What is Western Universalism (or Occidentalism)?
500
This test measures the representation of women in film and other fiction.
The criteria of this test are:
(1) that at least two women are featured,
(2) that these women talk to each other,
(3) that they discuss something other than a man.
What is the Bechdel Test?
500
He states that the unconscious is structured like language.
Who is Lacan?
500
Co-wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx.
Who is Friedrich Engels?
500
Often represented as a "Caregiver" or a "Wise Woman," what is the name of the archetypal woman who is past her mothering years?
What is a Crone?
500
She looked at grammatical, syntactical, and rhetorical structures of texts for "potential queer nuances" in literature.
Who is Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick?