ASB 311 Social Anthro/Koptiuch
Kaplan |
Male/female
gaze |
Gender (white, Western) |
Psychoanalysis |
Hollywood films |
Diawara |
Black resistant
spectator |
Race (male) |
Social context,
psychoanalysis |
Birth of a Nation |
Williamson |
Woman is an
island (in a sea of exploitation) |
Race, gender,
colonialism |
Semiotics, political
economy |
Ads |
Fuss |
Homospectatorial
look; vampire lesbians |
(homo)sexuality |
Psychoanalysis,
semiotics |
Fashion photography |
Margaret Mead
debate |
Mead/Freeman Nurture/nature Culture/biology |
Gender Male v female (white, Western,
colonialist) |
Social anthropology |
Ethnographic
fieldwork |
The gaze is
a way of seeing, a perspective, shaped by particular social and disciplinary
formation. Its constructions become embedded
in what counts as "knowledge" and its effects have consequences for the world.
The gaze can be challenged! The gaze can be changed!