WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Julie Ruin, Kathleen Hanna, Knitting
13 Apr 2015
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Practices that create (produce and encode) meanings about things and people, in specific times and places. Culture: everyday practices and products of meaning making by particular groups of people. Ideology: process by which historically/culturally specific ideas seem natural /universal ( common sense ) How women are seen vs. the power they have to make things that other people see. How do particular words and images shape and encode what it means. Connected to our reading on the guerilla girls; a reflection on women and the creative arts and how women"s creativity has been historically domesticated and made to. Zines represents an alternate to working within the established (be it in art, literature, journalism, music, etc) feminist, self-published, An overview of the performance art group and its politics indicates the global reach & legacy of riot grrl culture. King argues that the objects that surround us architecture, clothing, utilitarian objects, anything that can be said to have been designed are gendered.
