COMM 2P20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Frankfurt School, Jacques Lacan, Angela Mcrobbie

• School: Brock University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2P20
• Professor: Baxter Moore

Document Summary

Week 8 feminist theories and popular culture. Feminism describes both a set of theoretical understandings and an ideology. Feminist approaches to popular culture may draw on both sides theory and action. Sex: female, male (or some combination thereof) determined by biology, by genetics, by the presence or absence of physical organs, hormones, genes and other biological traits; Gender: masculine, feminine (cross- or trans-gendered or other variations) socially constructed norms and expectations of appropriate behaviour and appearance; Identities which are in part biologically or psychologically determined and in part (albeit sometimes temporarily) personally selected within a social context. Essentialism often appears in discussions of human identity, such as gender, race, or sexuality. Anti-essentalism: a theory that human beings, objects or texts have no inherent meanings; rather their meanings are socially (or culturally) constructed. Social constructivism (or antiessentialism) holds that such identities change over time and between social and cultural settings.