Sentences with phrase «feminist cultural theory»

I used to be fairly sure she was a mediocre pseudo-expressionist whose rise to fame was down to the support of Charles Saatchi and a loud appeal to feminist cultural theory.

Not exact matches

This article examines Whitehead's theory of perception to indicate how this theory provides a philosophical reinterpretation for two issues of concern to feminists: criticism of cultural symbols, including language, and the importance of intuition and emotion, usually associated with women, in experience.

Besides the ways Whitehead's theory of symbolic reference supports feminist attempts to purge cultural symbols from their sexist and patriarchal connotations, it seems clear from the following passage that Whitehead would applaud feminist hopes of producing symbols more faithful to women's experience.

His theory of symbolism then, is not only compatible with feminist goals of revising and renewing cultural symbols, but also provides a systematic analysis which gives philosophical support and impetus to these goals.

Women's studies: Science, technology, and women; gender and health; gender and myth; feminist theory; the cultural roots of violence against women.

Her current research focuses on a redefinition of contemporary art history through postcolonial theories and the genealogy of cultural displacement; she also works on feminist art and theory of the 1970s.

Both exhibitions emphasize the plural nature of feminist art: art made all over the world by women of all different nationalities, classes, and cultural and racial affiliations, and presumably identified with both the «essentialist» and the «constructionist» brands of feminist theory and politics, not to mention the many strategies of feminist art, from craft work to political exposé to canon - busting to the deconstruction of gender mythologies to body - centered investigations.

The title, «Waves,» alludes to these cultural relations, as well as to the organization, study and production of feminist theory and activism — and how it has been grouped in recent history as first, second and third feminist waves.

Möller's sculptural installation «Katzenbaum» incorporates both popular design theory and feminist cultural critique.

Delving into post-structuralism led to a PhD in cultural studies with an emphasis on feminist theory from the University of California at Davis.