Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Postcolonial Feminism, Neocolonialism, Cisgender

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1020E
• Professor: Kim Verwaayen

Document Summary

Theory is about producing knowledge through a specific lens: knowing the world in which we live, men have traditionally done the knowing and theorizing. Dead white men: refers to western white mal social and political thinkers: want to challenge the sexism, racism and classism in their thinking, their theories from science, reason, liberty, progress, principles of the. Enlightenment (what is this) and classical liberalism are protected by the dmw: these narratives shape the questions we can ask and the answers that can be given. Science conceived as the truth, reinforces its own supremacy and unquestioned authority: knowledge is political with a specific agenda/goal and is embedded in particular power structures (military-funded research laboratory, etc) Post in postmodernism marks a shift in thinking from sameness and universals to a recognition of many differences within sameness; to the idea of not sameness by postcolonial theorizing and to the permanent destabilization of knowing by queer theorizing.