[FEMST 80] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 14 pages long Study Guide!
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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. Many homosexuals in the state department fired during the cold war.
