FEMST 80 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Semiotics, Gender Binary, Pedophilia
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Epistemology: how you know what you know. Representation: to present/to depict: suggests something was there already, way in which meaning is given to something. Sappho is not the best or truest lesbian representation. Sappho created in the image of a white deity, such as venus: ethnocentric racist image. Set our sights on the questions we are asking. Emphasizes the importance of visual representation: what we see is what we think we know. Meaning is created through interpretation: triggered by senses. Signifier + signified = sign: signifier: form which the sign takes. Example: figure in dress, the color pink: signified: concept it represents. Representation is the way in which signs are used to construct meaning: gender, race, social class, religion, ethnicity, political beliefs. Https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=17u01_swjre: homosexuality as a threat to the picture perfect image of the american family. Instances of sexual practices in history that may be deemed as lgbt.
